Big Sale Has Started - UPDATED 07-31-25 (01 Apr 2025)

As some of you know my dad passed away 2 months ago today, on May 31, 2025. I posted it in the Members Only section when it happened. Thanks to all of you who have offered kind words on the forum, with phone calls, and visits in person during this time.

The Big Sale is on but not like originally planned, it is a by appointment type of thing now. I don't have the manpower, or the desire to do a big event like originally planned, I just need to sell a lot of parts that are taking up too much space here. I have been told and believe we are overloaded with Wheel Horse parts like no one has ever seen. Peeps have already been coming in from different parts of the country and buying a lot of stuff due to seeing the sale page, and seeing we are the only Wheel Horse only business in the USA that does things on the scale we do. The sale will continue for awhile until I free up some more space but you may not want to wait too long as things are being sold every day and there are limits to how many of certain parts will be sold.

As it says on the page it is still under construction and the page isn't finished yet. I've had a ton of calls for parts and the Big Sale Page may help answer some questions about what is here before peeps call. I hope that page is also clear that we DO NOT SHIP anything... This is a by appointment type of thing now. Be sure to call before you come to make sure the day isn't already full with peeps scheduled to come in, and make sure what you want is still available.

There I Was Mowing Right Along When...

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08 May 2015 07:12 - 08 May 2015 07:14 #4199 by M Bailey
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Great day to mow so there I was mowing along with my "new to me" 42 RD deck on the C-101. Made a turn and saw a strip of grass that was untouched by the left hand blade. Look down and the spindle is turning, don't smell smoke, drat! Shut down and reached under the deck to find that the blade was spinning free on the shaft, double drat! I've mentioned before that I hate to pull decks, well, here we go again. Pulled the deck and saw a good half inch up and down slop in the spindle shaft in question, zipped the nuts off both ends of the shaft, removed the blade and pulley and took a look. Chunks of what was left of the PN: 106070 spacer-seal littered the top of the top bearing, which amazingly, still turned free. The seal was non-existent as you can see from the pic, nothing left but the shell. Had to finish mowing so I ended up cannibalizing a spindle from a 42 SD and ordering a complete set of bearings a seal and a seal-spacer. Never had a failure like this. While the deck was down I did install a new set of mulching blades in Glen Pettit fashion with 2 blades per spindle so at least some good came from the experience.


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08 May 2015 08:03 - 08 May 2015 08:03 #4201 by Geno
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Ouch. :doh

I haven't seen that bad of a failure either. One thing I do see a lot, the prettiest equipment seems to need the most work for some reason. Is the shaft and housing ok?

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08 May 2015 08:12 #4203 by M Bailey
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Geno fortunately the shaft and housing are okay, even the bearings feel good but are getting changed out anyway because of all the trash that fell through.. This winter it gets a complete overhaul.

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08 May 2015 08:19 #4204 by Geno
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Good to hear Major. How did the double blade thing work? :idea

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08 May 2015 08:40 #4205 by M Bailey
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The double blades seem to be doing a good job but I still need to fine tune the deck a bit, more to come on that subject later. I will say that the pto clutch needs to be good and snug as does the drive belt, that's a lot of mass to get turning all at once, a good test of governor response for sure.

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08 May 2015 11:02 #4214 by GT 14
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Looks like you had plenty of grease in there. Do you use moly or is that tinted from the metal.
I will be interested in the blade report as well.

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08 May 2015 11:38 #4215 by M Bailey
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GT 14 wrote: Looks like you had plenty of grease in there. Do you use moly or is that tinted from the metal.
I will be interested in the blade report as well.


Good catch GT, I've always been a fan of moly grease and use it on about everything. :thumb1

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08 May 2015 14:00 #4216 by GT 14
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I use it myself, that's why I noticed. Great minds..... :idea

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08 May 2015 15:59 #4217 by M Bailey
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But as we know, it's a son of a gun to clean up after.

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08 May 2015 17:19 #4221 by Geno
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It wouldn't happen to be Shaeffer would it?

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