This last couple days the work bench was my bout trailer. I bought a 14' fidhing boat and trailer during covid, and never got around to checking out the trailer wheel bearings. This year I hope to actually use it a bit, so didn't want to get stranded on the side of the highway. I'm glad I did! I had to replace all the hub bearings and grease seals. Parts have sure got expensive.

Its unbelievable the life in that pond! Whe I tookover ownership of the property, you could walk right by it and never know it was there is was so grown up and grown in. I LOVE THAT POND!!

I have a playlist for the pond of all the work I have done on it, from beginning to now.

   now to figure out some air filtration. I'm thinking trying to hook that throttle cable to this engine wouldn't work. The throw is so much greater on the control.

It's only 16°f out there this morning, but it supposed to start warming today. I'll wait until I see the frost melt off my truxk before I wander out.

And the throttle cable

This is what I have to decipher.

Yup. Door droop and wind noise That truck is my daily driver. Newest vehicle I own. 2000 chevy silverado with over a quarter million miles on it.  We got it, but it involved breKing out a fire wrench.

Thanks. Just me being me, mostly at my cabin in the U.P.

Well, I didnt get to the tiller. The old door hinge pins neede plenty of persuasion. Glad my Son and my daughters guy was there to let me help them! 

I've got to put some hings pins in door hinges in my silverado truck drivers door this weekend, then I plan on taking the cover off the carb and posting a picture to see if someone has an idea how the governor springs and throttle should hook up.

I had 800 hasta plants given to me this past fall from a friend that works in the plant industry. I'm going to plant them on my land for wildlife. I'm going to need a tiller this spring.

Well, I do have a few atv repair vids I made. But Mostly outdoor activity type stuff.


https://youtube.com/@TamarackRidge?si=dFbIyIec6LrdYcBQ

No air filter of any kind.   Can't imagine this was ever used much in the dirt in this configuration. There is absolutely no place for that primer to go, and no line from the button. I don't think it is even the right sheet metal for that engine. There is a lever choke on it, the throttle is not hooked up and the springs hanging from the governor.

I have a need to work some earth this coming spring to start a blueberry patch. I bought this rototiller 2 doors down at a yard sale for $15.

Problem is. I don't think this is the correct engine or even the correct engine shroud and rewind on the wrong engine. It has a primer to no where.

I got it running for a short period,(governor isnt right) and the tiller does engage,

It looks like the engine may have come off of some kind of 2 season machine. It has no air filter box! That can't be right for a dirt churner!

That is my 1946 dodge I actually did find in a barn. I call him M.R. Truck. M.r. for Millrat.
I made a build video. It took me about a year to complete, doing a litte everyday.

It looks better now, I spent the afternoon cleaning it with alcohol. I was cutting balsam fir with it last year, actually the last two years and had not given it a good cleaning. It had pitch all over it.