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[scootergmc]

Grandpa can get that Oliver Diesel running on tight budget in a weekend . Plus do real well with it .

I can get an Oliver diesel running on no budget in a weekend. You know what I can't do? Find a plunger and head for a broken PSB pump.

 

[rustred]

and i have a guard dog watching my case 400 and 900 !

 

[rrlund]

and i have a guard dog watching my case 400 and 900 !

He has to sleep some time. LOL

 

[JOCCO]

Diesel tech should chime in here on the pump!

 

[rustred]

He has to sleep some time. LOL

She is a light sleeper and so am I and keeps an eye out all night. Soon as I hear her bark I know something is up.

 

[scootergmc]

Diesel tech should chime in here on the pump!

Dieseltech will tell you the same thing about PSB pumps. He doesn't even like to see them come in the door. They're paperweights if they have a broken plunger. Hard parts are long gone. Thankfully the ones I have messed with recently haven't been broken. I'm also thankful to have a couple parts units on the shelf. Most people don't know to remove and check the PSB pumps prior to trying to start an old tractor that's been sitting for a long time. They'll just hook a battery and fuel, but as soon as they turn the starter they've ruined the pump if it was stuck, which of course they didn't know, because you don't know what you don't know.

 

[Ray,IN]

A has been said, it's a Super 55. It's not worth close to asking unless that injection pump is free assuming it "ran when parked." There's really no way to tell unless you mark the gear and pull it and check. I don't see anything special on it so scrap value it is. $4-500 I think right now. It doesn't even have tire value.

Last year scrap price for a non-running, intact tractor was in the neighborhood of $1,200.

 

[Ray,IN]

Dieseltech will tell you the same thing about PSB pumps. He doesn't even like to see them come in the door. They're paperweights if they have a broken plunger. Hard parts are long gone. Thankfully the ones I have messed with recently haven't been broken. I'm also thankful to have a couple parts units on the shelf. Most people don't know to remove and check the PSB pumps prior to trying to start an old tractor that's been sitting for a long time. They'll just hook a battery and fuel, but as soon as they turn the starter they've ruined the pump if it was stuck, which of course they didn't know, because you don't know what you don't know.

A good machine shop can make a new plunger if you have the money.

 

[scootergmc]

Last year scrap price for a non-running, intact tractor was in the neighborhood of $1,200.

If someone is giving $1200 for scrapping an Oliver Super 55 with no additional weight on it, we'd be rich men out here. They generally run 3-4k lbs, depending, generally on the lower end of that. Generously that's $600/ton. I don't know what Indiana is giving, but that's unheard of out here.

 

[grandpa Love]

My goodness..... I'm not buying it....,.

 

[scootergmc]

A good machine shop can make a new plunger if you have the money.

Well yes of course, machined to match the head. How is that in any way cost effective for a Super 55? Unless it's grandpa's heirloom and you'll just die without it, that's unrealistic.

 

[scootergmc]

My goodness..... I'm not buying it....,.

Excellent choice. Unless you love Olivers!

 

[Ray,IN]

Well yes of course, machined to match the head. How is that in any way cost effective for a Super 55? Unless it's grandpa's heirloom and you'll just die without it, that's unrealistic.

No-one mentioned cost effective, that's why I said "if you have the money". If restoring a tractor had to be cost-effecive, there would be very few restored tractors, or anything.

 

[rrlund]

My goodness..... I'm not buying it....,.

I'd call and ask if you can hear it run, but if the answer is no, then I'd walk away.

 

[scootergmc]

No-one mentioned cost effective, that's why I said "if you have the money". If restoring a tractor had to be cost-effecive, there would be very few restored tractors, or anything.

Assuming all that, the "If my aunt had a ***** she'd be my uncle" comparison is apropros.

 

[TractorDad3]

Dieseltech will tell you the same thing about PSB pumps. He doesn't even like to see them come in the door. They're paperweights if they have a broken plunger. Hard parts are long gone. Thankfully the ones I have messed with recently haven't been broken. I'm also thankful to have a couple parts units on the shelf. Most people don't know to remove and check the PSB pumps prior to trying to start an old tractor that's been sitting for a long time. They'll just hook a battery and fuel, but as soon as they turn the starter they've ruined the pump if it was stuck, which of course they didn't know, because you don't know what you don't know.

Hate to admit I was one of those that set it up with the fuel I got it with and went to work on projects that dragged out too long. A year later tried to fire her up without knowing and wouldn’t go due to that very problem. Luckily Mr. Gordon let a pump go to me.
Feel like my penance, other than the cost, is to chime in in this kinda situation to help another avoid the cost
Especially with the filters being deleted who knows whats been run through it