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Offline slip knot

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Re: Oliver 1650
« Reply #90 on: January 11, 2021, 02:17:52 PM »
If you have an old school radiator shop they can boil it out clean. if its pretty heavy rust your gonna have a lot of pin hole leaks when your done with electrolysis. BTDT.  I've had pretty decent luck with a pressure washer on good tanks that are just gunked up with old gas. I found acetone works really well at dissolving the crap left by bio-diesel. 
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Re: Oliver 1650
« Reply #91 on: January 11, 2021, 02:31:35 PM »
Quote from: slip knot on January 11, 2021, 02:17:52 PM
If you have an old school radiator shop they can boil it out clean. if its pretty heavy rust your gonna have a lot of pin hole leaks when your done with electrolysis. BTDT.  I've had pretty decent luck with a pressure washer on good tanks that are just gunked up with old gas. I found acetone works really well at dissolving the crap left by bio-diesel.

it dose not look like it's heavy deep rust (no chunks anyways) the whole tank seems to be covered with that nasty grit like rust that bare metal develops in moisture. The daylight hole you see in the picture is the tank outlet.
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Re: Oliver 1650
« Reply #92 on: January 11, 2021, 04:51:58 PM »
I used this stuff on a old rusty Chrysler tank. I used a snow chain inside the tank to knock crap loose.
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Re: Oliver 1650
« Reply #93 on: January 11, 2021, 08:32:10 PM »
I`ve done muriatic acid but you must rinse out well and then soak in a alkaline solution to neutralize, but boy howdy do it get clean.
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Re: Oliver 1650
« Reply #94 on: January 18, 2021, 10:20:20 AM »
Quote from: slip knot on January 11, 2021, 02:17:52 PM
If you have an old school radiator shop they can boil it out clean. if its pretty heavy rust your gonna have a lot of pin hole leaks when your done with electrolysis. BTDT.  I've had pretty decent luck with a pressure washer on good tanks that are just gunked up with old gas. I found acetone works really well at dissolving the crap left by bio-diesel.

I had to take the radiator to the shop anyways so I gave them the gas tank as well. I was starting to cringe at what it was going to cost me but I told my self why cheep up with the life blood of any running motor.

 
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Oliver 1650
« Reply #95 on: January 18, 2021, 10:33:06 AM »
Over the weekend I picked up all the seals to rebuild the power steering rack.  While working on removal of the unit from the tractor I hit a snag. The ring gear is held in with a bolt welded to a washer that rides under a snap ring which forces the ring gear up and out with the removal of the bolt. While removing the bolt the weld broke after about 5 sec of using the impact gun, shit.


I guess the next move is to remove the snap ring and reweld the bolt and washer.

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Re: Oliver 1650
« Reply #96 on: July 02, 2021, 12:06:57 PM »
Progress is being made



This wide front was sitting in the corner of the shop when I bought the place. With some slight modifications to one casting it fits. It was a trick to get this thing under the tractor by myself but after 2 hours it was there.



Coming together on the front end. I went ahead and put the grill on ( all 230 lbs of it). This weekend I need to pick up radiator hoses, coolant, hydraulic oil, gear oil, some misc hardware and I might have it driving come Monday.
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Offline jabberwoki

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Re: Oliver 1650
« Reply #97 on: July 02, 2021, 06:10:53 PM »
Are we going to get a vid?
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Re: Oliver 1650
« Reply #98 on: July 09, 2021, 08:56:44 PM »
Looking good!

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Re: Oliver 1650
« Reply #99 on: February 15, 2022, 07:59:37 AM »
Well you haven’t done very good with updates on this project. I have it running and driving now. Even blowed snow wit it a couple weeks ago.

Pictures from last summer, this is once I had it running and had started fitting the sheet metal. I wasnt happy with the way things looked. I had new back rubber on order but had to wait nearly 8 weeks for them to come in. So in the mean time while waiting I dismounted the rims, hub castings, grill, weights, and other items for blast and paint.
 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 


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« Reply #100 on: February 15, 2022, 08:14:43 AM »
I also got the dash lights working, surprisingly all of the gauges except the amp gauge worked. 
Blasted the rims, grill, hub castings, wheel weights, side panels and painted the correct Oliver "Clover White".

I wound up getting BKT tires, I wanted Firestone's but I was told the wait on them could be a years plus.
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Re: Oliver 1650
« Reply #101 on: February 15, 2022, 08:20:19 AM »
While working on polishing the sheet metal I found the original decals from when this tractor was sold new. Minster OH matches what's on the build card for delivery location. Pretty cool know where a machine came from.

I was glad to run the engine and actually work it, the longer I worked it the better it ran. It handled the 84" snowblower like a champ, me on the other hand, I slipped while getting on the tractor and broke a rib. 

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Offline DeadNutz

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Re: Oliver 1650
« Reply #102 on: February 15, 2022, 08:23:03 AM »
Thanks for the update and it looks good.
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Offline skfarmer

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Re: Oliver 1650
« Reply #103 on: February 15, 2022, 08:57:12 AM »
Looks good. Is that front axle a bit odd? It looks set back more than I have normally seen.

If I recall the Oliver's are pretty good on a blower. They have fairly slow reverse gears.
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Re: Oliver 1650
« Reply #104 on: February 15, 2022, 12:52:38 PM »
Quote from: skfarmer on February 15, 2022, 08:57:12 AM
Looks good. Is that front axle a bit odd? It looks set back more than I have normally seen.

If I recall the Oliver's are pretty good on a blower. They have fairly slow reverse gears.
It’s what they call a set back axle. They aren’t that rare but not common. They came standard on utility models with shorter spindles. I believe you could order up to a 1950 with one. This axle was laying in the corner of the barn under a stack of seed sacks.


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