Well, actually I didn't get the wheels, but did get everything else! There is a method in my madness here....I think, my wife doesn't necessarily agree....... I have an identical one that I bought new and like me, is getting long in the tooth. Parts for these things cost a fortune. This cost $38.60. I just bought a new wheel for my other one at the Wheel horse dealer..........$77. I definitely won't be buying the wheels for this one there. Supposedly the engine runs great, transmission slips. It's a 6 speed stick. Maybe a belt slipping? I couldn't be that lucky, but did it once before. Brother in law gave me a Sears 10 hp tractor years back that he said blew the transmission and only had low and reverse (no 2nd or 3rd). I looked and sure enough he had put a belt on upside down on one end and it actually had 3 speeds in reverse and went like hell backwards. Easy fix. Used it for many years. Why can't we be that lucky with the cars?
we get lucky all the time with our Pontiacs, especially the ones with the Win-o-matic TH400! Maybe it's time you raised your standards, Dave!
:laugh: :laugh: :laugh: Touche, Todd. I'll give you $38.60 for either the Judge you had at York or the other one you brought to Stanton. :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:
Both of my tractors (1987 and 1986 Wheel horses) have the original VIN matching blocks, transmissions, and exhaust systems. I could certify them! I power washed both tractors today and under all the dirt, I found a few things that need replacing. This will work out well!
Toro/Wheelhorse has you over a barrel for replacement parts. The cost of two new rear wheels for my 1988 Toro 8-25 forced me to put an otherwise perfectly good riding mower out for the sheenie man. The rear diff gave up and cost $150 for the axle/differential. The problem was that the two old rear wheels couldn't be pressed/torched/hammered off the old axles. Toro wanted $120 EACH for the8x3 rims!! I took the axle back for a refund and scrapped the mower instead. I wasn't going to put almost $500 into a 20 year old tractor worth $250. Oh wait! That's like putting more money into my unappreciating GTS. :dollar:
I promised my wife, no more cars after i retire until I finish the ones i have. That was in 2001. I've had another dozen or so (mostly donor cars, coupla nice builders) since then. I got rid of all of them favorably (to the budget at least) and am still back to the original 3 and 2 are unfinished. One is close, I think. But I didn't say no more tractors. Tractors are cool! There's a carcass of a bigger tractor out in my woods still waiting for its owner to come get it. It may just "disappear" one of these days. :laugh:
i know about getting them wheels off the axles. f-ing impossible sometimes. i got another t-axle for my MTD on ebay cheap. then found a whole tractor in Howell with a blown engine~chassis like new. $80 for that one. the MTD's are throw-aways; but i keep fixing the one i have 'til the sheet metal cracks, then move on to the next carcass to revive it.
Dave - you're crackin' me up...:laugh: I wish I had the pictures scanned: My first tractor resto was a 1965 Roper (made for Sears). It was in my in-law's barn so I got it running and started using it. After a few minor breakdowns I decided it needed to be stripped right down and redone. It turned out nice and I used it for years and years until.... ...I decided I needed a "bigger" tractor. This was one of those rusty hulks sitting out in a field. It's a 1942 Farmall "A". You can get everything you need (except sheetmetal) from a Case/IH dealer. I called so often that by the time the tractor was done they could recognize my voice on the phone. It ended up being my primary grass cutting/trailer moving/snow plowing machine and would literally stop traffic when I was out using it. I paid $800 for the hulk and sold it when we moved to our little house in town (got the equivalent of $3600 for it).:beers2: K
LOL...that picture makes me laugh, 'cause my dad has a '51 or '52 Farmall Cub with a belly woods mower...drives me crazy, 'cause about every other year he hits something and breaks the block/radiator assembly, and we fix the stupid thing every time! We've got a newer 40hp 4wd Deere w/ a huge finish mower behind it, yet more often than not he'll jump on the Cub! It would be one thing if we just had an acre or two to mow, but we're up to finish mowing like 12-15 acres now, so time is of the essence! LOL!! Old habits die hard, I guess...
This fall for sure!.:laugh: No '58 project to hold me up.....even getting ready to swap the engine trans into the ramp truck. Hmmmm, maybe the ramp truck maiden voyage to retrieve the tractor :laugh:
Ya know................this is pretty pathetic. Here we are only 10 short days from our annual HIGH of the PSMCDR, and we are already discussing lawn and farming tractors. Have our lives become so jaded that the PSMCDR is just another ~blip~ on our radars?? Back to the subject at hand..............that Farm-All is a cool looking tractor. There is a little General Store/tractor graveyard down in Difficult, TN (east of Carthage -next to Disappointed Creek, TN) that 5 year's ago had a score of old Farm-Alls, MF, IH and old gray and red Ford tractors. Two year's ago it was just a bunch of "newer" blue Fords and John Deere's in the weeds. o No:
Are you Kidding? After the big focus to get there.....I'm wandering around trying to get a handle on what neglected project to get back to. :laugh: Sorta "Pure Stock Shock" Hmmm.....I wonder if I could get disability for that so I could devote more time.....:laugh: :laugh:
I wish you guys would explain to my lawn that i don't have time for this crap now. Got to get the 60 foot time down, grass can wait. Wife does not seem to agree with the priorities! :rant:
Frank/Brian: I stopped fertilizing with the thought that it'd grow slower, need mowing less often, and give me more time in the garage. Didn't work. The grass did stop growing, but the weeds took over and they grow faster than ever. Another brilliant move of mine.
Maybe that is what this condition should be called. Pure Stock Shock Syndrome. Or, better yet, Pure Stock Hangover. Sort of like crashing after a big night of carousing. :beers2: This tractor thread is just a form of the Pure Stock Hangover Remedy. I was just worried because usually we don't see this kind of thread until the winter doldrums set in. I wasn't aware, until now, that this was instead a form of therapy for our condition! uzzled: Next we'll be talking about Oldsmobiles........................:rant:
I like "Pure Stock Shock Syndrome" You can't get disability for a hangover.:laugh: :laugh: On the grass subject you'd think with all the driving on it abuse my lawn would give up.ou: When tires are spun I call it "Thatching" Picked up a parts car recently on a rainy day. As I drove around the house to unload, a first time visitor suggested the lawn would be soft. "No it won't be" I replied.:laugh: It wasn't :TU: Fortunatley, my 154 Cub can take deep grass.....so the cutting frequency is reduced.:laugh:
