Fixing up an antique wheelhorse lawn tractor.

Lawn tractor rescue! We've had this mower since I was a kid, so figured we'd get it running. Sentimental value.

[@steveaw5895]

I like those old "Ball Burner" Wheel Horse's.

[@robertnoel2363]

Cool, my dad has had one like this tucked up for ages. Now that i'm more mechanically inclined you gave me the exact video i needed. It was just the right balance of know how and straight tov the point. Look forward to seeing that clutch adjustment/spring video eh

[@HeavyIronAcres]

Thanks! It's a fun little buggy to tool around in, though it's mowing days are done

[@danbasta3677]

Now if you could get a mower deck fir it, it would be a nice unit to mow grass around the house with. The young boy there, if he's taught to be respectful about this machine, that would be his job to check the engine, by pulling the dipstick, and checking the oil, greasing the tractor and mowing the yard down with this tractor.

[@paulhare662]

I almost cried when you started cutting on that hood. But, it's your tractor to do with as you please. I have one like it. The water gets into the gear box thru the shifter boot, reproductions are available. To clean mine, I filled the gear box all the way with kero, jacked it up and let it run in gear for an hour or so switching gears once in a while. Good luck with it, have fun and tell the kids to be careful, with enough throttle, you can easily wheelie one upside down.

[@zachc2991]

I cringed a little bit during the trimming, but as you said, his tractor.

[@dangerous119]

Same here. Trimming the body on a 60+ year old tractor to fit the stock muffler for a Chinese engine was tough to watch. I understand the approach of "using what you have available" but a classic WH is a lot harder to find than an engine that will fit.

[@trs-80fanclub12]

ikr, I stopped the video when I saw the cutting disk. so many memories of this little thing.

[@Rev.nighthawk..pjred1984]

I'm currently rebuild it one with a butchered hood

[@paulhare662]

@@Rev.nighthawk..pjred1984 Butt welds and a light touch with the MIG welder.

[@byrnejr]

It’s a 1960 model 400 suburban tractor. Nice machine

[@HeavyIronAcres]

Thanks! Good to know!

[@80fordmustang6]

I just got one of these from a buddy i have the deck and original engine battery is dated mid 1980’s

[@mikemoyercell]

Sounds like the transaxle quieted down after you added the gear oil. I flushed mine with kerosene (same thing you did) drove it a couple times with the Kero and got the nastiness out. Used 85-140 or w/e the specified oil is and felt good about it after. There is a special gear oil to use for the brass in the trans if I remember correctly gl-5? I forget but good to keep it clean!

[@TF856]

That's not a plug that you put on the front of the seat. It's called an inlet. Because unlike an outlet you're letting power go into that circuit.

[@jeffscott8323]

Put a Briggs on it

[@very5ick112]

it got hard so the two boys quit ?

[@dannyanderson3359]

Do you have any idea how much that hood was worth

[@jorelsmith1985]

Hi I'm thinking about getting one. Any info is helpful

[@ruchknruchkn6575]

The princess auto 6.5 hp motor is a Honda clone "chonda" I have one on my snowblower..it is not a kohler like you said

[@HeavyIronAcres]

Good to know. Thanks!

[@MUN.A1988]

Lieve it..no need for it. You bought a new motor and it needs tires..so it is not looser.

[@kollinspencer847]

its a 1960s wheel horse suburban

[@HistoryColourized]

I know the family I am friends with them

[@HoserSpeedshop]

Nice hack job

[@TF856]

That's too bad that it's not a garden tractor instead of a lawn tractor.

[@williechaffin387]

You can’t keep an ole horse down.

[@trs-80fanclub12]

cuts the tin, might have well been a 2006 broken lawnmower

[@jeffscott8323]

Old realiable

[@jeremysanders9838]

You need to take guy off the camera too much fast forward

[@TF856]

You should really try to keep everything on that little tractor original! Antiques lose a lot of their historic value when you start upgrading or modernizing them! Since you are determined to butcher it, you should just sell it to somebody who can restore it and retain its historic value!!!

[@scottm344]

What ever happened to this channel