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I aquired this a few years ago, basically to save it from being scrapped. My intention was to restore and show it but I have too many things going on in my life to spend time on it, plus it is too large for me to transport it easily, so I have decided to pass it on. As you can see it is rough, it has had a 'modification' done to the rear end as well at some time. Now the machine is partly dismantled, the engine has had the barrel removed and I have refaced the valve seats but I gave the valve's to a clubmate to reface them and he appears to have lost them so new ones will be required. Of course the engine will need a total rebuild anyway. The Albion gearbox apppears OK, not sure what (if any) parts are missing from the whole machine but whatever was on it when I obtained it is still there but probably now in a box! One tyre still hold air, the other is split though. Anyone interested would need to collect it from Matlock, Derbyshire, and give me a day or three to get everything together as it is spread over a garage, bedroom and a container on a local farm at present! It cost me £15 a few years ago, so I haven't lost much by giving it away. I could sell the engine for parts and make that back but that isn't the way I work. PM me if interested and thank's for looking. Pete.

Only one thing for it I need to paint some stuff, but at zero degrees outside it's gonna have to be inside. So firstly I need to warm the piece to be painted and the paint. Before spraying outside for 30 seconds and back in to dry At least it's a bit of progress, hopefully missus is done cooking for the night

Good man, only difference is I put my paint in a bucket of hot water

Nah! She was just marking her territory.

From the posts I have read, I think we all either run or in the past have run a LR. Must be something to do with our mutual interest in the equipment we talk about on here. Iain

You as well eh!

The auto transmissions on WH's are strange compared to the regular autos on a Bolens

I am the same too on my BOlens; I use SAE 30 lawn mower oil as they are air cooled engines and as I have approximately 10l of EP90 left over from my Land Rover days for the transmission.

Mmmmm...

Andrew, looking forward to seeing some pictures of the LK when you pick it up. OB, i didn't know that you could get a cylinder mower for a EK, that must be a great combination. I would love a LK or a EK but what would be perfect would be a Grounds Keeper (GK) they are awesome, especially configured with a cab and snowblower. Does anyone know if the GK was imported into the UK? I came in a close second behind Andrew chasing the EK that was for sale, unfortunately no prize for either of us. Iain

Hi Iain, it will have a split brake pedal, but split front/back rather than sides on the rear... Thanks James, it's getting not as fast as I would like, but any progress is good progress.. Even though I have not posted anything about Why Not for a few weeks work has slowly been happening.. When I left off at the end of the last update I had just started making new wheel centers.. Like so Which eventually turned into this... The raised bit is a nice tight fit in the center of the wheel which means the new wheel center is centralized in the center of the wheel And from the outside it looks like this.. Please note the widened wheel rim was used for photographic purposes only and won't be going on Why Not.. Bolt holes drilled... The extra two holes were the result of me making a jig out of ally to drill the holes accurately.... The trouble with ally is it's rather soft to use as a jig and one of the new holes ended up a couple of mm's in the wrong place! Time to break out the welder.. Lot's of tacks to stop it moving with heat.. Fully welded in.. A mixture of neat strong welds and not quite so neat but still strong welds The blackish ring seen on the inside shows good heat penetration.. Next up was to remove the old wheel center... Once it was cleaned up you could see the join between the new wheel center and the old metal, so I carefully ground out a V along the join and.... Back filled the V with plenty of weld With the welds and the raised center carefully ground down to make it all smooth and level.. I could finally bolt a Wheel Horse wheel to a Reliant rear axle

With the threat of cold weather coming I thought I had better saw some wood up.