[AT] Oliver S55 oil filter and history

[charlie hill]

I have to admit I didn't think about the teflon getting loose and getting 
into the oil system.  However if it were carefully placed I don't think it 
ever would.  Go get a NAPA or WIX filter (same thing) or a Baldwin.  There 
were some new design Wix filters out a year or so ago that didn't work right 
but they should be off the market by now.

Charlie
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Nagel, Alan F" <alan-nagel at uiowa.edu>
To: <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Sent: Friday, August 29, 2008 5:07 PM
Subject: Re: [AT] Oliver S55 oil filter and history


> 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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