Wheel Horse 265 Revival

[@RollinMyOwn]

Dude... you are one heck of a good dad. 👍 keep the chin up and keep wrenching with your son it'll make memories for him to last a lifetime.

[@Biokemist-o3k]

Always great to see you and John working on stuff together...

[@detroitredneckdetroitredne6674]

Hello from Detroit Michigan brother thank you for sharing your knowledge and expertise and for helping the little guys out to fix their equipment Stitches is very fitting

[@MrTheHillfolk]

14:30 😂 At least John doesn't have to stay quiet about crazy ideas ,it's encouraged 😂 I mean who hasn't wanted to launch a hot wheels off a belt sander?

[@billp7070]

I like that file set

[@davidvail3838]

Just so you know, this is not the typical Wheel Horse. Most have the battery at the rear of the engine (at the top of the steering column.

[@brandonfloyd6321]

One i used was a hydrostat. Was a pretty good lawnmower. Deck just rotted too hell.

[@liljoeii6091]

Thank you for the video hi guys

[@GlennsSpeedShop]

I do a few lawn tractor videos every year on my channel. I enjoy and learn from your experience on your channel. A video suggestion... I aquire tractors and engines like you do, I have not been doing this long enough to learn for example ... Briggs engines families. Is a 17, 19, and 21 hp basically the same. I have some engines and tractors that need engines but the engines I have are not exactly what was in it. Also, rebuilding blown up briggs singles, I have a hard time finding rebuild kits for them.

[@redneckcomputergeek]

I refer to the newer briggs singles as hand grenade engines. The way the rod is setup when it breaks it takes out the crank and cam with it. When the cam goes it breaks the oiler entrance out of the base pan of the engine. After seeing it happen over 30 times with out fail. That would be why no one makes a kit.

[@GlennsSpeedShop]

Thanks for the explanation. If you had a real nice craftsman that the engine was removed but is worth saving, what would you empower it with? I think it had a 18 Briggs or close. I picked up 6 tractors last week and still sorting through and working on the four I got the week before.

[@redneckcomputergeek]

@@GlennsSpeedShop Fastest swap with out to much trouble would be a Kohler single 18 to 21hp. They come in all the cheap MTD stuff and always outlast the rest of the machine.

[@GlennsSpeedShop]

Kohler engines are my favorite also. I think I have one in a Craftsman I drug out of a small farm last week. They raised goats and the goats ruined the seat and hood climbing on top of it. I'll pull the engine and sell the rest as a parts machine, has a good 42 in deck. I have two 21 hp Briggs Singles that I know nothing about, will have to rig up a test bench for firing up loose engines. Thanks for everything! Hi to John!

[@NickMaberry]

@@redneckcomputergeek yes I know for a fact when that rod blows it blows

[@philliphall5198]

They don’t care how hard it is anymore 😊

[@philliphall5198]

Hi from icy west Texas Yep we got lots of ice and 18 degrees Hoping you got my letter Stay warm we’re expecting to lose electric power again

[@redneckcomputergeek]

I have not made it to the POBox yet. I only check it when the parking lot is empty. My post office is the hang out and waste every bodies time place in town.

[@BlueberryStinkFinger62]

Tuff Torq transmission I would put in it..

[@hunter7476]

Are you familiar with the Eaton hydro trains Idioms I plbove mine is an 850 ? Model hydro it’s a transaxle I pulled out of a simplcity LTH 12.5 lawn tractor it looks pretty heavy duty/ well built it did run and drive. Should I hang on to it for something in the future or just take it apart and then scrap it I hate to get rid of good working parts

[@redneckcomputergeek]

The problem with Eaton stuff is they only do rebuild kits for the last 3 or 4 versions. So normally I look up the version on the drive and see if its still supported then decided.

[@hunter7476]

Well, it’s not a true wheel horse but one of the more decent ones in the last years of the cheaper toro tractors before they had mtd build the lt series variable speed drive cheap tractors this is way way better any of the 2,3,4 and 500 series tractors produced by toro were by far the best. Looking good guys would like o see more revival style videos of getting old stuff runn in and repairing it

[@redneckbryon]

The battery location on this, Wheel Horse is almost as bad as some Cub Cadets. I wonder if that tank grommet, with the shut-off valve, is a replacement, unless you can reach him to shut it off. Idea, relocate both the battery and the fuel tank, battery to the back fuel tank to the front, then you could add a weight box in the back, if needed.

[@MrTheHillfolk]

Or it could be one of those things that fits a few models and they leave the valve on all of them as it's on the shelf as an assembly for production. That's another part number to have a tank without a valve.

[@evil_me]

Snsprings, clevis, shaft keys, cotter pins and e clips are always annoying because a box is cheaper than buying a fee separately

[@Dustinkendra075]

Overwhelming with “stitches”…? There was one person!

[@joshirwin3981]

It's a real wheel horse but not a real real wheel horse the real real wheel horses have a cast iron kohler

[@aldonova9974]

With timken bearings on crank

[@jafinch78]

You can call it, "Stitches and Bitches" on the side.

[@spudstudios3342]

"revere"

[@redneckcomputergeek]

Yup realized after posting it. That it might be a local mechanic term for when it should be in gear but just revs. Its what we say when CVT stuff fails or the Chevys that like to neutral them selves.

[@williamwehling2019]

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