Nicely put.

I didn't want to give that a like but I had no choice. Well done.

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This plus they once made reliable farm equipment that you could service yourself.

They are all pretty much the same anymore. At least the ones you buy at the big box stores. Troy-Bilt, Craftsman, John Deere all the same junk they sell in different colors.

@@MrClarkisgod craftsman, Murry, Husqvarna (the cheapest one) , poulan and a few other are all the same tractor MN ade by mtd. John deere are still made by John deere as far as I know they're just not good anymore unless you spend $6000 or more. Troy built are just junk you can get 3 maybe 4 years out of one

@@danbartolini27 Stanley is taking over MTD so maybe they'll improve. Right now I wouldn't recommend anything they make. Some of the bigger names they purchased and now make are Yard-Man, Cub Cadet, Bolens, Garden Way, Murry, Troy-Bilt, and White Outdoor. They also do some manufacturing for Deere, Craftsman, and Toro. Personally I wouldn't buy any of them, and I recommend the better Husqvarna models, who also make the better Poulan Pro and Craftsman models.

HEY NOW! I am a Corvette AND JD owner. 😂

Lmfao Eric O 🤣

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Funny seeing SouthMain here! I love your channel Eric. I can’t stand when people call my JD 214 a lawn mower 😂😂

People said they were junk at that time and Deere wasn't making quality equipment like "back in the day." Same whine...different year...

317 came with a onan in theblatter yours cuz the kohler 317 would burn up the one cyclender on hills.. u could get both tractors at the time but i would a 140 over bothvany day of the week .

I have an example of both engines in a 317 I am trying to get the onan one to work but most of the electrical system is fryed

He might be right! Cheaper than a horse, that's for sure...

@@WatchWesWork having boarded horses out in Southern California, I can attest to horse ownership is right up there with owning a plane and boat. I'll take a tractor any day, Ford 545 :)

What did you guys do with the old engine

I think he's already a local legend

That is good to know was trying to work out why a car had no spark as everything looked fine ill have to put a meter to the fuses then

You make it sound like it was made in the 50s lol.

The special sound of the Onan is the suck of the money leaving my pocket. If it's running it devours fuel and if it isn't the prices for parts are insane. One of mine has a Kohler in it as well and the amount of fuel difference between the two of them is insane.

@@ryanslaback9418, now you can understand why so many motorhomes use Onan generators. Very reliable but expensive to operate for any length of time. The one we used to have on our old motor home would really pull the tanks down if we had to boondock for any length of time without shore power.

An Onan legend? Junk from the start. Glued together intake manifolds. Pull the engine to change fuel pump on some models. Why do yo think Cummins stopped making them? And if you think it was EPA, nice try. Boat anchor was the real reason. Want a good tractor, put a Honda V twin in it. Now you have the tractor you hoped Deere would have built in the first place. Can't even get a fuel pump for many of the older Ohno Onans.

Maybe the Claas with the corn head will keep them at bay? JDs, no telling. They'll show up in a convoy of Johnny poppers!

Start them on a discussion of styled or unstyled. That will occupy them for several hours. Then boldly state that electric starters are the devil's work! Peter Santenello is doing a fascinating series on the Amish. Different groups explain what they do and don't allow. I don't understand why they can't use JDs, lol

It's good that at least one community understands that an engine wears out and sometimes replacing with an original just isn't going to happen.

@@bruwin I will scour the earth to find a rebuilt Onan when mine needs a replacement.

@@jdraupp search before it will be cheaper than waiting till you must have it We put a Onan 20hp we got almost new out of a JD 420 It was very cheap and we ended up eventually needing it

@@captainamer71 great idea.

My 83' 318 has been repowered with a Honda 20hp. Came from a landscape outfit that killed the onan. I'm personally not a fan of Onan engines anyway and was pleased it had the honda in it

They are awesome machines, Aaron. Another will come your way.

My dad was a points nazi.

Guy I worked with (he recently retired) found 3M 1400 grit diamond paper. We use it on contacts for relays, safety and door circuits on elevators. We call it magic paper. It's about 7/8" wide and comes in rolls around 100' I think. Stuff is money. Doesn't take the silver off the contacts, just polishes the carbon right off. Or we use a dollar bill. Works like a champ.

they are worried they might lose it if it storms, its cut it now or lose it later. It looks like the green stuff is mostly on the edges of the field where the field stays wetter when it rains.

The corn around us, it’s super green but it’s right where the moisture needs to be, the corn getting picked in this video probably never saw the dryer

And a man with CLASS would choose an Allis Chalmers/Simplicity

You are right in what you say. With this video I learned to get the test light out and go on and probe it.

I have... Numerous times, until I learned to use common sense, and a meter!

@@HouseCallAutoRepair i keep a little multimeter and a standard test light these days as well even though i'm no mechanic. But now thanks to this video i'm never going to trust a fuse again even if it passes a visual, lol.

Even without a test light I would have tried a second fuse before I called the mechanic. Takes a couple of minutes and saves a lot of trouble. Of course then I would have been stumped on why it wouldn't go into reverse so there is that...

It is amazing at the number of times over my decades as an electronics tech that I've run across fuses that looked good but had opened right next to the end cap. The stranger ones are those that had the end cap actually come loose but not enough to come off. Good catch!

Don't think I'm familiar with that channel. SMA?

@@garys9694 South Main Auto. Great channel with a proper mechanic/ diagnostician rather than a code read parts swapper.

@@ohboy2118 yes sir 👍

Went there and realized that I have looked at his videos many times. Actually have used them to get my vehicles repaired. You knocked code readers, you simply cannot do that. Wes has proved it many times. A mechanic must work with code readers or he's just not gonna be able to fix many problems in any car built after OBD came out.

@@garys9694 sorry you misunderstand me. There are too many so-called mechanics that read a code and immediately swap out the part the code refers to rather than do due diligence and prove the part is faulty before replacing it.

You forgot to mention you also equipped it with a cabover sleeper. 😂👍

You need to make some vids of this thing and post them up on youtube so we all can see how its done!

Yes I want videos of this

Did it still cut grass?lol

I'll bet you would have loved to have power steering at that age, eh?

@@billbaillie3702 yes that sure would’ve been nice 😊

Yeah, the lawn mower guys will be all over your shop with pitchforks

I have a 216 just like yours and a 312 good tractors

I had a small GMA glass fuse throwing an intermittent problem one time. You could measure voltage throughout the circuit, but it would flake out. I finally opened the fuseholder to do other diagnostic checks, then the end cap fell off of the fuse! Element was not connected on one end. Slide the cap back on you had continuity, it just couldn't supply current. That was a weird one!

Your hill to die on!

For triple bonus points: paint it new holland yellow or case red. JD 'mower owner' heads will implode creating a tiny little black hole of angry despair.

Right to repair lawnmowers…!

I grew up on those, i keep thinking back to them while people praise the JD here. The cubs were built even heavier!

I have my 92 model think it is bought new trailer and tractor 6 grand back then

He repower them with vanguards now cuz theycwere having issue with the hondas . Small engine ware house sell the kits

Yes!

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@@mrswes Someone may have had some inside information.

@@patcb829 all I did was ask for a heads up….anyone else could do the same!! ☺️

I have an 83 111 that someone has put a 12 horse Briggs IC engine on. I got it for $225 and had to replace all the deck bearings and the pittman arm. I've been mowing for years with it.

@mister kluge I see lol. I'm just gonna remove the exhaust manifold at the down pipe and take the head in with it attached. I'm just glad my oil and coolant aren't mixing.

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@@Monkeh616 im gonna have an aneurysm!! lol jk

They finally gave up after picking half the field.

Yeah that was my thought, it looked drier on the edges

I wondered the same, that or opening up fields and sorting out the equipment for when it’s go time

Wheel Horse Junkie here also…. 3 in my stable, my 416-8 is my main worker…. Love the power of my p216 Onan… many haters, but routine maintenance keeps mine ready for what ever I throw at it!!

Those German descendant ex wives, a love hate relationship, I know the feeling :)

My day loved his wheel horse. We lived on 1 acre lot back in Iowa. He was always mad at me for mowing the yard in 3rd gear. I just wanted to get done and go fast. I flipped the tractor one winter when my dad was out of town on business. My mom always would say wait till your dad gets home. Great times as a kid!

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Many people don't know this. The tractors are built stouter and have heavier frames. MTD used to sell two versions of the same machine. They looked the same but the lighter one was nothing more than a typical riding mower. The Lawn Machine was tougher and would do much more. I bought a very used Lawn Machine that had the brackets for a snow plow still attached to the front. I used it several years until the Tecumseh engine finally just quit and became non-repairable. In first gear that thing would really pull as long as it could get traction Two cylinder, two carbs and basically like having two engines in one body! These new Chinesium "tractors" don't last long and break down quite easily. I bought a new box store Craftsman and it's nowhere near what the old one was. Deeres are great machines but on retirement pay I couldn't afford to even pay the taxes of what a new one costs.

@@WatchWesWork I have one with a short in the harness somewhere… gotta tear into that mess one of these days

GT's can utilize ground-engaging equipment, such as tillers or plows. Lawnmowers can't.

It said something like “check the oil”.

Yeah...I've got a garden tractor that's 26 years old and runs like it was new and has never needed repair Piece of junk. Have another John Deere tractor that's 15 years old has never needed repair and runs like it was new. Another piece of junk...

@@buckhorncortez that's my experience with them idk what else to tell you. I wondered how many thin skin fan boys I'd trigger with that. Get out of here Nancy.