Recent content by Doug Schwantes

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    88, S88, 880 Diesel gaskets discontinued.

    I rebuild engines for Olivers, and have discovered recently that Victor Reinz has scrapped the tooling to make head gaskets and other gaskets needed for these applications. They tell me they sell 2 per month, and tooling will cost them $30K. They have 133 head gaskets left and enough parts to...
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    Engine oh kits

    I was told once Clevite, but I sell Clevite now and they are not the same.
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    Sleeve problems

    M&W sleeve kits are owned by Alamo Group, and are Distributed through Herschel dealers. Herschel owns the company formerly known as Central Tractor. M&W has droped alot of their older sleeve and piston kits. They are China built, and when compared to original M&W, not even close in quality. We...
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    Sleeve problems

    What I am finding on broken sleeves, there is no radius cut where the top shoulder meets the side wall of the sleeve. 90 degree corner, cracks and breaks in that corner. Sleeves that don't break, have a radius or a back cut in that corner.
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    Sleeve problems

    I own and operate a repair shop that averages @8 overhauls per year plus counter kit and parts sales, and am a dealer for A&I, Hy-Capacity, Tisco, as well as other brand name engine parts. A&I Oliver kits mostly use Richland sleeve assemblies which is a Wisconsin based company. We have not had...
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    660 front end change

    Wishbone will be too short with 77-880 front end. You will need to build and adapter plate for the rear pivot mount.
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    oliver 80

    Use Oliver 70 cast centers for 36" tires, with your 80 tapered hub, and use IH M or JD G drop center rims. Done this two times before works great.
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