[AT] Oliver S55 oil filter and history
Larry Goss
rlgoss at insightbb.com
Fri Aug 29 14:46:29 PDT 2008
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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