Recent content by bmorong

Tyler T: If that Original is like mine, the previous owner used the recoil starter until it broke, then added the starter/generator, regulator and battery. Now I've got to fix the recoil and take the tractor back to its original configuration.

For anyone looking for a tractor show in southern Maine this year, check out http://seacoastnh.com/Places_%26_Events/Historic_Tours/Eliot_Antique_Tractor_Show/ It's being held July 30th & 31st.

Digger: I've done so, but back to my question -- upon reflection, maybe the gear-shifters are male and the hydros are female!

I wanted to post pictures, so I went to the FAQ's and read through how to post a picture, but it says it can only be 50k and all my pictures are between 500 and 600 k.

OOPS! -- I DID IT AGAIN! Gentlemen-- Isn't it embarrassing when this happens to you? Just when you (and your significant other) think you have enough Cub Cadets, along comes another, wagging its irresistable transaxle at you, and off you go! In June, entirely by accident, in the next town I...

Gentlemen: I used the link in Jim Patchett's post to Lonny Buttke for the Kohler engine web site to get a K 161 engine service manual. Did anyone else try this? When printing, did anyone else experience having the first page print fine and the other 136 pages print backwards (mirror image)?

Gentlemen(and anyone else who'd care to respond): I've had my new 1961 Original CC (the only tractor I've ever had) about two weeks now and am gathering more information about it; one thing I found is that the carb leaks, which drips down and fills the air cleaner (the old oil filled kind)...

Gentlemen: Please help -- I know nothing, need knowledge. I'd never had a small tractor so when I saw one at a yard sale I bought it, didn't know what it was, it just said IH on the front. The woman was moving and couldn't take it with her, it had been her grandfather's and she'd learned to...