What do you have for Oliver projects this winter

[JOCCO]

Doubt I'll get to my 70 lots going on and catching up on other projects.

 

[rrlund]

I don't have anything in the shop right now. I put an ad on CL trying to find a project. Ken Grimm has a 70 and an 88 Standard that he wants to sell. Tim Sharp has a 105 L&G that needs to be put together. I don't really want to go that far to get one. Somebody about 75 miles away had a 1355 for a good price. I need to find a decent day to go look at that. Somebody fairly close told me the other day that they have an 88 gas with a wide front that he'd just as soon find a new home for, but he has to talk to his dad about it. There are several ads by somebody about 30 miles away for a bunch of unfinished projects and parts tractors, they're just cleaning house and want to get rid of them.

Seems like we've been having about two good days a week to grind feed and haul manure, then the other five, when I have time to go look at things, the weather is so bad I don't want to go anywhere.

 

[Gary Mitchell]

Doubt I'll get to my 70 lots going on and catching up on other projects.

I'm thinking about doing one like this,,,, and maybe a Binder. gm

 

[Centerplate]

I need to pull the injection pump off the 4-78-15 because it quit turning. Pushing it in the shop might be entertaining.

 

[Ken Grimm]

The 88 STD is sold and in its new home in South Carolina. The 70 is still here. I am working on a General, restoring it, but haven't had much chance to be in the shop yet this winter.

 

[JOCCO]

I don't have anything in the shop right now. I put an ad on CL trying to find a project. Ken Grimm has a 70 and an 88 Standard that he wants to sell. Tim Sharp has a 105 L&G that needs to be put together. I don't really want to go that far to get one. Somebody about 75 miles away had a 1355 for a good price. I need to find a decent day to go look at that. Somebody fairly close told me the other day that they have an 88 gas with a wide front that he'd just as soon find a new home for, but he has to talk to his dad about it. There are several ads by somebody about 30 miles away for a bunch of unfinished projects and parts tractors, they're just cleaning house and want to get rid of them.

Seems like we've been having about two good days a week to grind feed and haul manure, then the other five, when I have time to go look at things, the weather is so bad I don't want to go anywhere.

RR don't know where I see it, but it was in the past week or two. One of the Oliver 88 early ones that looks like a 70. It was for sale but had been restored.

 

[oliverkid]

Doubt I'll get to my 70 lots going on and catching up on other projects.

Need to put a head gasket in my 1950T. Rebuild the transmission for my 64 drill. Just bought a 4-270 that needs a good front to back going over so it’s ready to pull the soil finisher this spring. Hopefully go through the pto and hydraulics on the 1600. And if there’s time have a small oil leak I can’t pinpoint that needs fixed on my 4-150.

 

[JohnRowehl]

The 546 plow. Have to replace all the coulters, all the frogs and a couple landsides.

I have to finish work on my Farmall 826 and get it operational again before I can do anything on the plow because I have no other means to move it.

Also have the 4240 plow that I need to disassemble the beams and find out why they didn’t trip when I caught a rock a couple times at a plow day. Want to finish painting it too.

Next in line is the ‘51 77. Will need new manifold gaskets, seat springs and bushings, and brake work to start with. Not sure what else lurks within. Oh, and to finish painting it too.

Then comes the cultivator that will ultimately get put on that same 77.

Winter projects that will go on until next Fall (and BEYOND!)

 

[tom upton]

Hope to build a motor for a 77 that we pull at local fairs. I have a bone stock 770 engine in it now but get beat pretty badly these days as "stock antiques" winning in 4500 lbs these days takes at least a 100 Horse. I have a gas motor out of a 1800 that I am thinking will work for the block, a 310 diesel crank that I will try to use in it. Hope the head on the 1800 motor is good enough to refurbish, maybe some port work and bigger valves, Not sure what to do for pistons, but have always wondered what kind of compression ratio I would end up with if I took a set of direct injection diesel pistons and milled some more out of the valve reliefs, so may look into that as I have a couple sets of them. Regardless its gonna be a mix match of parts I have laying around so hope I can make it all come together. I seem to think someone on here has mentioned using a certain make of auto piston before? If anyone has info on same would be thankfull if you shared. This is it pulling as it is now. It was fine until the competition started to cheat more than me!

 

[NYOlivers]

Need to put a head gasket in my 1950T. Rebuild the transmission for my 64 drill. Just bought a 4-270 that needs a good front to back going over so it’s ready to pull the soil finisher this spring. Hopefully go through the pto and hydraulics on the 1600. And if there’s time have a small oil leak I can’t pinpoint that needs fixed on my 4-150.

Do you still have the same Email address? I sent you some info about the new style head gasket from Maibach's.

 

[8NHENRY]

I need to do some work on my 88 that I bought this year. It needs exhaust gaskets and new gauges. I bought a regular drawbar hitch for it a couple weeks so i want to take the 3 point off and put that on as well. With the 3 point removed I can put regular hydraulic hoses on it which makes it more useful to me. I also need to replace one of the front tires before spring.

 

[Welding man]

Rebuild my engine for my Oliver Hart-Parr 70 if I can ever get my sleeves and crank back from the machine shop. May paint my Super 88, if I can get the other projects out of the paint shop. Too many projects not enough time for an old man.

 

[JOCCO]

Rebuild my engine for my Oliver Hart-Parr 70 if I can ever get my sleeves and crank back from the machine shop. May paint my Super 88, if I can get the other projects out of the paint shop. Too many projects not enough time for an old man.

I to have Hart Parr 70

 

[BAnNC]

Clutch and PTO Clutch in the '55 Super 55. IF there is time. Hopefully be able to paint it as it goes back together.

 

[300jk]

Doubt I'll get to my 70 lots going on and catching up on other projects.

Got all new filters and oils for the 1750 front to back. Also have a new seat for it. 1650 is still acting up. Seems to not be getting enough gas flow or float is messed up.

 

[BV1960]

No Oliver projects this winter planed,this was last winter's project.

 

[JohnRowehl]

Turned out beautiful!

 

[Oliver owner]

I’m working on 2 crawlers. A 1940 Cletrac HG and an OC3 side by side.

 

[Ohio88]

Super 77

 

[rrlund]

Well, now I've got a project. Better said, a job. The 1600 governor has has issues with that little bearing in front and yesterday it started acting up, racing some, not a lot of response, then this morning it revved way up, the tach almost pegged beyond 2500, then it bogged down and locked up. We had to plug the loader hoses in to the 1550 to raise and lower it and get it off so we could put it on the 1550. We shoved the 1600 inside out of the way for now.

I did an in frame on it a year ago, then in June, a finger broke on the pressure plate and I had to pull the engine. We discovered the crank had a lot of end play and the thrust bearing had worn in to it. I took the crank out and sent it in to have it welded up and reground. I'm about to put wing nuts on everything so I don't have to use wrenches to get it apart. I told Jon, I've got half a mind to take the weight bracket off the 1850 and put the loader on that for good. It wouldn't be in the way of grinding feed with it, and that's mostly what I do with it anymore.

It ticks me off that I've passed on two 1600s over the last five or six years. I'm going to watch the sale bills the next few months and if I can find a 1550, 1600 or 1650 for a good price, I'd part out the 1600 yet.