70's Wheel horse C-120 mud crawler trail rider

Those look like great trails! I love that old tractor too. They don't make 'em like they used to....   

Thanks T-dub! the old ones are alot tougher than the new stuff.
the tranny in my horse has seen alot of abuse over the last few years, including running full of water and mud for a unknow amount of rides    and finally blew the input seal and puked gear oil everywhere last ride. Im going to rebuilt it but in the mean time I found this for a good deal.


its the good one with the big 1 1/8 axles    



Gonna Pull this apart tomorrow and lock it and toss it under the old girl, we got a ride saturday!    

Mother of god, thats like a rockwell in the mower world. Make sure to charge your go pro this time! lol i suggest filming in 720p 30 FPS

Easiest way to make a key way is to find a bolt a little to big and use a bench grinder to grind it to a square a little bit at a time. Then buzz the head off of it

Ive made keyways in a pinch, and they work, but over a year or two of hard riding, they eventually eat out the keyway, because they arent perfectly square. I usually just run to the hardware store and get new ones if I lose my old ones. Red, why not 1080 30 fps? thats what I shot in last time. I ordered two extra batterys earlier this week, hopefully it gets here in time, and yes it is like a rockwell, bout as heavy too, dang cast iron case.....

@Creepycrawler wrote:

Ive made keyways in a pinch, and they work, but over a year or two of hard riding,  they eventually eat out the keyway, because they arent perfectly square. I usually just run to the hardware store and get new ones if I lose my old ones. Red, why not 1080 30 fps? thats what I shot in last time.  I ordered two extra batterys earlier this week, hopefully it gets here in time, and yes it is like a rockwell, bout as heavy too, dang cast iron case.....

You get more storage time in lower res. i can get a hour or two out of mine, 32 gig card i think. quality is basically the same

little update. got the tranny out, locked and back in. went riding, forgot the memory card    and phone was dead double    so just some pics and mods for now



Trans beef just cause its awesome   



Unlocked



Locked



Done and in place, its the only clean part   



Close up on my mod to get more clutch tension with the stock spring, works great!

That's some serious beef! I think the inside of my wheelhorse has the same style diff, hoping it's that easy to lock up.

update, its been a long time since I did much with the old girl, Seems I didnt add the pics of the ride after I fixed the tranny, Ill post those below. I bought a set of tires this winter, super swamper vampires, size 25x13.5x9   

I like to find big tires with small rims, they ride sooooo much softer than regular 12 inch garden tractor rims and this is why. The only way that you absorb bumps on a lawn mower are the seat springs and the rear tires. the smaller the rim, (keeping the same size tire) the more rubber/air you put between your back and the ground. which gets more important as you get older Lol. when I was younger I wouldnt even run seat springs because I felt more in control when I wasnt bouncing around. My back would hurt for a couple hours and I was good, now if I would run one of my old tractors like that I would have trouble walking the next day Lol. How ever the only problem was no matter how hard I searched, I couldnt find any 9 inch rims with the five lug bolt pattern I needed. So the other day I was at the atv junkyard and found a set of old steel 9 inch atv wheels with 4 lug pattern. Ended up only paying 5 bucks a piece for em ! score! in this pic one wheel is almost done, and the other just has the holes welded up


So at this point I took my welder and welded up the old holes. Then I machined out a ring that centered up a old hub I had in the atv rims.



dropped it in and drilled out


All done! err almost I need to drill them out to the right size, but thats easy, I just ran out of time




Next is removing the vamps from the old rims and putting them on the new ones, I think these tires are gonna hit the fender supports on my horse, so might have to deal with that also.

and the post trail ride pics I promised   





it was muddy     

sooo another update: new tires!   Ive been drooling over these tires for over a year, a few nights ago I just finally pulled the trigger on ebay and they came today! they are kenda xtra grip 5.70x8 they measure just over 18 inches tall and around 5 to 6 inches wide. I hope to get them on the tractor tomorrow     here are some teaser pics

My buddy had tires like those on the back of his demo car lol. how much were those tri ribs, just wondering.

tri ribs were around 70 dollars shipped when I bought them but that was 3 or more years ago

Love those new tires. Starting to explore front tire options and those are definately contenders.

is it possible for a member to join your offroad club

its not much of a "club" lol its just me and my hillbilly friends. We have been riding together since I was 14/15. Most of us just have trails at our parents, and they are very worried about getting a lawsuit if someone gets hurt so they only let people they have know for along time come out and ride. also most of our rides only get planned a few days in advance. I am working really hard at finding new places to ride that would be more friendly to others from the forum here to come down and ride with us. Also I want to plan a event like the tractor party and trapter strabaganza. but I just havent found a good spot yet. On a side note I got all my new tires on tonight check em out! a test ride tonight shows that they ride nice and soft and grip like crazy! but I need to do a mud ride soon for a real test! on to the pics!
  

Fronts




Rears and fronts both on

Those tires are sweet! but i would love to join your "club" if you would let me im an pretty experencied offroader and i would love to do what you guys are doing seems great and fun!

sure, consider yourself in, next time we have a trail ride that I can invite people too Ill send ya a message

sounds great i have a sears st 16

where can i buy some front tires like yours me liky

Ebay, just type in kenda xtra grip and they will come up. the best place to get them is GCT wholesale, Ebay store is called gregthree. He is on vacation now, but I just got mine for 79 dollars for two, which is way cheaper than anywhere else I found. Shipping was around 20 bucks

I followed you here my creepycrawler


On the topic of lawsuit worries. The good news about Ohio is that if you are using someones land for recreation and NOT being charged. A lawsuit will not hold up. That is thanks to the horse folk. Now that of course doesnt mean they cant attempt to sue you, just means that hopefully the judge knows the law.

https://www.ohiobar.org/ForPublic/Resources/LawYouCanUse/Pages/LawYouCanUse-611.aspx

Been away for awhile, but been riding some, here is a teaser video, Im almost done with the the full vid now, but It wont be up till tomorrow

Heres the link, just click it https://youtu.be/5ahQ4dfNEaQ

Those front tires!!! i'm on the search for those now, thanks for posting the name of them.
watched the trailer vid too, your Tractor is insane bad ass little trail rig, your buddy has a good crawler too!
now i just need to kick myself in the arse and start building mine...

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