[AT] Oliver S55 oil filter and history

[Larry Goss]

Remember when you used to be able to go to a fast food place and order small, medium, or large?  I have yet to figure out what the size designations are on coffee at Starbucks.

Larry


----- Original Message -----
From: "Nagel, Alan F" <alan-nagel at uiowa.edu>
Date: Friday, August 29, 2008 16:13
Subject: Re: [AT] Oliver S55 oil filter and history
To: "at at lists.antique-tractor.com" <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>

> Thanks Andy Glines and Landon Schooler.  I agree with Andy, 
> don't want to play with teflon tape; and will try to find the 
> Wix filter.
> 
> But perhaps I mis-stated or unclearly stated the problem: the 
> fit of the White/Agco filter into the mason-jar threads is 
> better than others I've tried to date (Fram just blows right off 
> no matter what upon starting the engine after mounting filter, 
> and the White/Agco will if tightened too much pop off in my hand 
> or the filter wrench, overriding the threads).
> 
> So unless I can find the Wix much better, and no one has 
> experienced the problem and found a better solution, it sounds 
> like time to look for a new mount (or try scavenging a good one 
> from the wrecking lots?).
> 
> FYI on history of Oliver models.   Edchainsaw has got 
> it right.  See Spencer's Antique Tractor Bible p. 28 (photo 
> is my S55), and the detailed Oliver Farm Tractors by T. Herbert 
> Morrell (Oliver's Charles City plant design engineer 1944ff. and 
> chief engineer as of 1951) and Jeff Hackett: Spencer mentions a 
> 55, but his photo p. 9 looks more like an S55; Morrell and 
> Hackett note the Fleetline 66, 77, 88 and the development of the 
> Super 55 pp. 85ff. to compete with the 8N (and the Jubilee) by 
> adding draft control and independent pto, with a helical gear 
> set and the four-cyl. Super 66 engine.
> 
> Farmer: the Super series replaced the Fleetlines with Super 66, 
> Super 77, Super 88 (1954-58 as John Boehm rightly 
> observes.  Not quite the false advertising you sniffed out 
> (but there's no shortage in the air...).
> 
> Alan
> 
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