Colt Case Ingersoll Garden Tractors

Amazon took out my neighbors lawn again. Attsched garage is just to the right of the house. Driveway has a turn around to the right of the garage. Managed to miss the mailbox.
Sorry about the screen shot. The forum wouldn't upload the original file... couldn't determine the file resolution...

We have similar problems with drivers from curtain delivery companies . The one thing in common is they can't or won't speak, read, or write English . I am not bias , that just the hard truth . How they get a lic. is beyond me . Worst of all they driving full size semi trucks up here to . Just frightening .

Project wise today didn't go well.

I pulled the drivers side axle out of my wifes car for replacement only to find the replacement axle had the wrong stub shaft. Not in stock locally so back together it went for another week. It did last 189,000 miles. I thought for sure I wasn't going to be able to get any tool I own in the tight space to remove the axle from the transmission. Turns out my eastwing 15" flatbar was the perfect tool for the job. Also realized my breaker bar is broken It was from Harbor Freight and probably $20 9 years ago... with lifetime warranty. Still no idea how it broke. Maybe it got dropped Axle nut was removed with my impact gun. Next I moved in doors to finish up a Lionel train repair I had been working on for a few days. I broke down the power trucks and motors, cleaned, removed the 76 year old grease, regressed and reassembled. Ran great at low voltage while under test. After a bit of breaking in, I turned up the transformer voltage and sparks shot out of one of the motors. One of the armature coils burned up. Never had this happen before. Fortunately replacements are still available.

@MattA Glad you got the flat bar to work . If you get one that is more of fight , this goes on a standard slide hammer . You have trains ? What gauge ? Can you show us you layout . I have HO from when our boys were young . The layout was dismantled long ago and the put away . The plan was to rebuild one for the grand kids , but that never happened . Hopefully I can do something for the great grandkids .

Well prior to the 4" of white misery I got today, I did finish the leaves...

This is what I ended up with. The trailer is pretty beat. It's almost as bad as my current unit, but with a better undercarriage since I don't need the long tongue to carry the vack and engine. Between the two, and a little steel, I can have a good wagon for next season.

The blower itself needed some TLC. The PTO shaft guards were seized. The mounting distance wasn't right for the 8N, which isn't shocking, but I had to move it back, which was weird... I could cut down the PTO, but better to leave it long until I know how things work. Greasing was kinda a pain as a prior owner added extra guarding over the belts. That's not a bad idea, and I'll be doing it over to make it easier to do the lube. Adjusting belt tension is less than ideal. I didn't notice the sheaves were out of allignment, so I ground up one of the belts to the point it's all the way down in the pulley. It got me through though, so it will all get addressed over the summer with any luck. I can tell you that going up to an 8" blower from 6, and having 23 horse rather than 5 behind it will move some leaves... It really takes no prisoners, and there's a lot more clearance in the blower than the old EZ Rake to hopefully avoid self destruction...
Only down side is I will miss the maneuverability of the 444. The 8N is quite a bit wider. I can drive the N behind my house, but I don't know if I can make it with the trailer. My long term plan is to remove some trees, but that was planned for a couple years down the road after I finish my decking project... Next year I guess I'll be moving the leaves to the corners and running a long hose.

DavidBarkey wrote: ↑Mon Dec 01, 2025 5:13 am You have trains ? What gauge ? Can you show us you layout . I have HO from when our boys were young . The layout was dismantled long ago and the put away . The plan was to rebuild one for the grand kids , but that never happened . Hopefully I can do something for the great grandkids .

David I have O gauge. We had some postwar Lionel steam engines and a diesel growing up that we setup around the Christmas tree. My grandfather was a Lionel trains collector and had a layout. He had some nice prewar and postwar trains. I wish I was there to go through the collection with my uncles when they split it up.

My collection really started when I graduated college with my engineering degree. I had money to spend and got into MTH Premier line scale O gauge trains. The modern trains can run conventional (transformer varies the AC voltage from 6-20VAC) and command control. With command control you set the AC track voltage and drive the train with a remote. The remote talks digitally with the train allowing fine control over the speed and sound. The whistle/horn/diesel engine/steam engine chuffing is all adjustable to your liking. With command control you can keep multiple engines on the track not running or run multiple engines together. Each engine has a digital address for communication. You can think of it like your house has a mailing address... or your home phone number.

Anyways I've probably got 10+ MTH diesels. Mostly EMD engines. I've only got four steam engines. A pair of UP Big Boys, UP 844 and N&W 611.

I had a train layout on one of the bedroom floors but took that down to make room for kids. Most of my command control trains haven't run in probably 6+ years.

In the past few years I've gotten back into Lionel postwar trains from the late 1940's through the 1950's. I enjoy running and working on the old trains. They have there own sort of character to them. For example my 2343 Santa Fe F3 diesels have the old growler motors in them. They make this growling noise while running down th track which is then amplified by my hardwood floors under the Christmas tree. My wife really loves that

The thing with the postwar trains is like an old tractor, they were built to last and be repaired. The modern trains have a $200+ control board. If that goes bad, your out $200. If the postwar engine isn't running well, you take it apart, clean it, lube it and run it again.The modern trains certainly have postwar trains beat in terms of being smooth quiet runners, detailing and sounds but I enjoy running the old postwar trains.

I' can post some pictures if you want.

Thats neat stuff . Matt . Yes some pics would be nice .

Projects went better this weekend. Drive axle replacement in my wife's car went quicker than the last time.No issues this time.

I also repaired the armature coil on the Lionel motor from last weekend. That one pole of the armature did have an open coil. I soldered in a section of magnet wire from another vintage armature I had laying around and secured the patched in wire with superglue gel. Works great. Not sure how long it will last...

@MattA This is the drive motor for my Burco spout rotator. I do not remember where it came from. Seeing your motor repair gives me hope.