Can An OLD OLIVER Tractor Pull A 7' BOX BLADE?

Thanks guys – best part – seeing your smile when the implement lifted off the ground haha

on your throttle problem check spring tension on returnspring might be to much

It should have a tention screw to tighten to help hold it in place..

Your throttle problem is with some washers they are leather!!! Now you can use cork washers in their place!!! But if you tighten the nut down on the spring that will keep your throttle from sliding back!!! Also your rear end oil should be 10 w30 there is a half inch pipe plug next to the PTO shaft on the right side!!! Remove the plug oil should come out the hole!!! Lift oil in warm climates use 10 w 30!!!! Do not push or go backwards pushing with the box blade!!!! There's a possibility that you can push too hard and the cylinder inside will jump out of a hole and knock a hole in the pan that separates lift oil from the transmission!!! If you knock a hole in the pan lift oil will run into the transmission and burn the pump up!!! I've had Oliver 550 since they came out in 1958!!! I have a 58 and a 59 models !!! My 1958 is basically I super 55 they had 144 cubic inch engines!!! Should have a 9 and 1/4 inch clutch !! 59 model 550 have a 155 cubic engines with 10 inch clutch!!!!

You driving a Oliver? Oh no lol 😆 😂 😅 🤣 🙃.

I had a 8n with the same problem, someone had taken the throttle linkage apart and put it back together with the spring in the wrong place. It wasn't holding tension on it so they put spot welds on the throttle in different places to hold the throttle in place.

Hi Hank I just sent you an email with a picture of my Super 55 from today. Coming along well. I'll let you know if I figure out anything about the throttle, and thanks for the video with the box blade – that is the primary work we are looking at doing with the Oliver here in our Property Owners' Association

Maybe use my late Uncles response when people ask about the muffler and mailbox letters.

"Why thats there for people like you to ask silly questions about"

I realize it is at Bus Grease Monkey's. Yet down below the battery is a plate with a series of grooves. The rod comes down from the dash and has an arm that rubs on the plate. There is a nut and spring below. You tighten the nut to increase the resistance.

I have a 60's model Kubota L260 with a cherry bomb muffler. It's fitting for an old tractor. Mine was 26 HP when new and it has pulled a 5 foot bush hog through some jungle. It's a 3 cylinder diesel though.