New to Forum - C160 Owner with some ?s

[River19 87]

Grew up a Wheel Horse kid and we had a 1968 8hp WH (I want to say C-100 or something) and then in the mid 80s when I was 10 my mother vetoed a purchase of a new 300 series and my father "settled" for a used 1975 C-160 Hydrostatic with hydraulics etc.  We sold off the snow blower 15 years ago or more as it was a better plow than snowblower for New England heavy wet snow.....fond memories of ducking exploding PTO clutch plates.......

 

Anyways, fast forward to 2000 when I bought my first house and I ended up with the C160 and we mowed with it for years with the 42" deck.  Now we just use a simple self propelled rig to mow our yard, however we have a log cabin in northern Vt that is our pride and joy and dammit, I need a toy to play with and I will get the C-160 running again.  It's been a couple years since it saw regular duty, been sitting in the shed with the battery pulled for a year or so.

 

I would like to find a plow for it, I think I found one on CL for $150......might have to pick that up, also I need a few things done/fixed:

 

The seat bracket broke, so the bracket that holds the whole rear fender/seat assembly and lets it pivot etc. let go and snapped......anyone know where I could score a new one or should I jsut have someone fabricate one?

 

Oil......it needs an oil change......what weight oil and how many quarts?  I still have the manual in mint condition but after 38 years I figured someone might suggest something different for the Kohler 16HP mill.....

 

Oil filter?

 

Tranny oil.......what kind and how many quarts?

 

I have a 900' dirt driveway that can get rutted up in the mud season and I would like to be able to plow the sandy soil back to level with this rig as well as move firewood etc.

 

Any helpful links etc. would be appreicated, meanwhile I will soak up the archives here, great forum.....

 

Thanks

 

Steve

[Sparky-(Admin) 21,300]

 

Your motor should have straight 30w in the summer and 10w-30 in the winter. I think your machine is new enough that the tranny would have 10-30 motor oil as well. Not sure what year they stopped using ATF and swapped over to regular motor oil.

Mike............

[rmaynard 15,417]

Steve,

 

The parts you needs can be found used from many sources, but I would try one of our vendors. http://www.wheelhorseforum.com/forum/92-vendors/

If you have trouble finding parts, a good welder could fabricate something for you I'm sure.

 

Kohler says that the K341 takes 2 quarts of 30W oil when temps are above freezing, and 5W30 at lower temps. I use 30W year round in my Kohlers here in Maryland.

 

A 1975 C-160 uses a transmission filter Toro #79-5270 or NAPA 1410. The transmission holds 6 quarts of SAE 10W30 or 10W40 engine oil.

 

Good luck. The C-160 is a great machine.

[River19 87]

Thanks guys;  Oil and filters are an easy afternoon job......

 

I'll check out the forum sponsors for the bracket replacement; always would rather use sponsors when possible.

[953 nut 55,021]

    Seems like most of your questions have been covered. For grading the road I would suggest a "mid mount grader blade", Some one listed one in our classified section the othed day. The dozer/snow plow is good for pushing dirt around, but to level it the mid mount is the way to go.

 

Good luck and   .

[AMC RULES 37,125]

Post up some picts of the old girl here when you can.  

                          

[River19 87]

I will check out the mid mount grader blade as I would really use that more than the plow I think.  The driveway is 900' and soft sandy soil so it gets rutted up even when dry espcially with out heavier trucks going up and down (F250 diesels + my wife's Tundra etc.).  My buddy plows it with his truck for short money so that isn't an issue and I have a 1968 Ariens snowblower that I keep for our primary house......stick with a small POS house and they you can have 2 homes for the price of one lol.

 

I'll get some pics up when I can.