Oliver 880 Valve Adjustment and RETURN to WORK
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 22 ต.ค. 2022
- A bit of a rain delay gave me time to replace the bent push rod and adjust the valve clearance on the 880. From there it's just a matter of putting it on the auger and seeing how well it runs.
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I have a 1952 oliver 88.
Standard . Great tractor .it needs a valve cover gasket
I'll check the valves thanks to your video
Safe travels
those old Oliver gas engines were some of the smoothest running engines!
Too young (15) too old (36) just right (24) thats what my old teacher said in college. He may have been talking about women at the time but I still remember that from 93.
My shop teacher said the same thing, I’ll never forget it.
It's always twice as much fun to work on something when you have a great big bench right next to it
A 40 foot trailer makes for lots of work bench.
We've always had really good luck with "Bars Leak" for coolant leaks. Didn't plug up our rad's. Of course, we blocked off the rad's to get that engine "hot" so the bars leak would work.
Good to see the old gal up and running again all proper like. Cheers :)
Chris, I have a couple of John Deere B's, so I guess that makes me a John Deere guy. However, I have been entertaining the thought of buying an Oliver as I could use a slightly more modern tractor. So in my search for Oliver information on TH-cam, I had found your channel a week ago and now have been binge watching your videos. I take my hat off to you. You provide very informative and entertaining videos. It is fun to watch a good mechanic who truly knows his subject material.
Thank you.
Best Regard,
Dave Demick
Thanks you! I appreciate the compliment!
@Oliver 880 That is not a bad idea. Yes, budget is a concern for me. However, I don't see many Olivers in my area. I do know where a 1750 has been sitting for some years. I have ninety eight acres, and do some skidding logs, brush hogging, snow plowing and land clearing. I am getting tendonitis in my arms, so power steering, live hydraulics and live PTO are looking quite attractive to me.
Best Regard,
Dave
It's always amazing to me how old these Olivers are getting and they're still going strong, with a little love. I've always said that my 77 was here on the farm before me and will be here when I'm gone. A testament to Oliver. Your 880 is sounding good!
Thanks Charlie! I don't think I'll run as smooth as that 880 when I'm in in my 60s.
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That is a true testiment to an Oliver right there, the quality is evident in how with a little tinkering this tractor went right back to work. Thanks for sharing!!!
Be so amazing to see my own Oliver 1650 being fixed by this farmer
That old girl does count ‘em off really good!
Great video Chris. Saw sign and paid my respects to Vern Losey on Find-A-Grave. Intersting info on him. Families evolve over time. I was raised in Michigan. I found out the other day by extensive research that my gg grandmother and family were out in Kansas in 1885. She left the old man and went back to Michigan near Lennon. My gg grandfather died 1918 in Kansas and is buried near Ogden. He never remarried. Keep em rolling. Godspeed. Eaglegards...
Vern and family, along with the Losey clan from this area all moved to Canada in the early 1900s. Great grandma hated it there, and Vern eventually relented. They moved back to Michigan and bought the farm we are at now. The rest of the Loseys remained in Canada.
You make it all seem so easy, I guess all those years makes it second nature for you.
Thanks! I'm glad I learned this stuff when i was young, I don't know if it would stick quite as well now.
Love the sound of the 6 cylinder Oliver 😁
Nice sure does bring back good old memories thanks Chris for supper fascinating videos, I was at your dealership one time around 1973ish dad had just bought a new 105 white and a 7 bottom plow along with a 24 field cultivator from the dealership in Owosso Michigan I spent best part of that winter assembling everything we were missing a spring on the cultivator can't remember if I met you or not luckily you had the right part I was upset at dad for buying the white I wanted a international but after seeing what that white 105 could do I was hooked line hook lead sinker and bobber that tractor changed our farm for sure God bless ,Ed from Corunna Michigan oh just wanted to say your soy beans looked very clean combine is doing a fine job ok
I was just a wee lad at that time. You probably dealt with grandpa. He was almost always at the parts counter.
On this episode of Losey's wayward tractors. We get an example of the dont do's lol . 880 sounds healthy sir
Thanks!
The second tractor I ever drove. Only diesel. Loved the sound of that engine. Needed a shot of ether to start no matter what the temp. Tired. Did the stop leak hold? Nice to see you use them all. Thanks as it brings back memories. You could open a working farm kinda a like a working dude ranch only for us old guys wanting to drive an old tractor. Kinda like the field of dreams for wayward Oliver drivers.
Yes, the K seal had things dried up in short order. By the next wagon load the leaks were all stopped.
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Sure good to see older stuff still being able to pull their weight around the farm bro. Safe travels
Tractor sounds awesome keep up the good videos
It sounds like its running really good from just the little bit of love you have given it!
It's really running nice now that it has a couple hours on it.
@@ThatOliverGuyChris now for an oil and filter change and she's good to go for awhile again.
She sounds good now! Sometimes just running is the best for an engine thats been sit for a while
880 was a great tractor. My dad and his brother farmed together for a number of years. Dad had the Super 88 diesel and my uncle had the 880 diesel. They were wonderfully matched at plowing. In the heavy clay around Newport, MI the Super 88 with three bottoms and the 880 with four would pull at the same ground speed. We could plow all day and never get in each other's way. I found the power boost to be very handy, hit a tough spot, pull the power boost into low range and power through. The Super without that feature required a stop and downshift. The only thing I hated was the front mounted cultivators, I despised them. I much preferred rear mounted. Great to see the progress being made on your 880.
This is my only tractor with a power booster, and I've got to say, that lever isn't in the best spot for a big guy like me.
@@ThatOliverGuyChris does your power booster work? I have two 770s with power boosters, both bad, so I keep them in direct. I really don't have any need for them, so never cared too much about getting them fixed.
It does work. It feels like there is good pressure going into direct, and under hasn't slipped, but I haven't pulled anything with it yet. Maybe i can find time to hook it up to a plow this fall and see how good it really is.
@@ThatOliverGuyChris I was a preteen and early teen when I put in my hours on the 880 so room in the operator's platform wasn't and issue for me!
Sounds good with a load on it! It’s nice to give them a work out.
It's the best way to keep them running
My dad had an 880 with 3pt. Used it moving round bales. After the army I moved 700 miles from home and when he retired sold it. But I think it was one of the different cor green
We had bent push rods in our '49 88 and the dealer service tech just rolled them on this bench and put the hammer to them till straight. This would have been in the late 50's or early 6o's. It worked real well.
But why did they bend in the first place?
Sounds like you're about to yell some animals LOL love Ross yeah I've took stuff apart a couple times because I don't do it right LOL
Well looky there, got the old 880 Oliver running like a top, congrats on that Chris. Sounds good, no real struggle with the auger on the soybeans. It's always satisfying when you have a successful fix on a tractor. My son and I need to work on his Massey 285, having issues with it not wanting to start easy. Two years ago we put a new head gasket on it and we did reset the valve lash, but maybe the lift pump is going out, he had the fuel pump rebuilt in 2019, so I think that's okay. Anyways, an enjoyable video, liked it, thanks for sharing, have a great Sunday and rest of week.
Thanks, Dan! There was a point where I thought I might be as far ahead to part it out and buy a running 880. I'm glad I put the time into getting it running.
@@ThatOliverGuyChris I think that was the right decision, any time you can salvage an oldie but goodie it's the right thing to do. Thanks Chris
Hey from the other Becky!
Ran that same auger on an 880 diesel for years. Worked awesome. Too bad I roached the motor in the tractor.
Is it weird that I understood all of your TV references?😅😅
I was beginning to wonder if anyone did. 😆 🤣
I don’t think I have ever seen a spin on hydraulic filter before
That's for the transmission. Oliver had a field installed lube kit for the helical gear 880s. Not all of them got it, but this one did.
I remember Teds Service. It was just down the road from my grandparents farm at Clinton. In fact their neighbor had an 880 I wonder?
I suppose it is possible. Think they would recognize it? Very little has been done to it since my dad bought it in 92.
@@ThatOliverGuyChris No It was sold at his auction around 1970 and he passed in the early 80s
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Aww shucks! I was waiting for you to adjust the intake valves on that 990 to .012". Tee Hee. Great video, we will not tell anyone that you do use stop leak.
You had me for a moment there with the 990. LOL
LOL our grain Mill stinks sometimes too smells like crap
Kind of a coincidental video. This week, I brought home my great-grandfathers super 88
That's awesome! Does it need much work?
@@ThatOliverGuyChris they said it ran when parked, 20 or so years ago, so I don't know. I don't have any mechanical skills, and don't want to mess anything up, so I'll try to get someone smarter than me to look at it
It could be as simple as this 880, or it could be like my 770 that had sat outside for "about 5 years". The engine had to be totally torn down and cleaned there was so much crud and corrosion inside.
@@ThatOliverGuyChris they had it in the back of a free stall barn, so at least it was under a roof. It would be a lot nicer if I could hire you to restore it lol
The old girl sounds pretty good.
I'm really happy with the way it's running now.
Crazy how the sales of gas powered tractors dominated diesel once.
What's crazy to me is Oliver was dominating the diesel tractor market, then they put all that work into the XO-121. It seems like after that they put their efforts into gas. It did show that there was more efficiency to be had from a gasoline engine, but they were never going to get to the level of the diesel.
Excellent Excellent video!!
Love the sound of it. I have a 770 gas my dad bought new in 1962 looks just like that. Do they have the same motor? I still have my 770 it was our big tractor in 1962. Thanks much for sharing this video it was one of your best!!
Thanks! The 770 is basically a smaller version of the 880 engine, not too many parts interchange between the two.
Oh no! The stop leak! Now your motor is blown up you just don’t know it yet! 😂 I have a farmall M with a leaky radiator I just kept flex sealing the hole and it eventually held haha, nothing against stop leak though if it works
Forgive me viewer, for I have sinned. 😆 🤣 😂
All she wanted was a little love, please use me Chris lol. We had are super 77 diesel on are auger wife calls me says it sounds funny, so she shut it off I get there check it over oil antifreeze all looks good, so I start it up yep sure does sound weird . The top of muffler came apart bouncing allover so I swapped the super 88 diesel on to it , it need run too. They all need run the twenty we have hard to keep up. Don't know how you do it . K D tools I think makes that tool to set the valves . From turkey creek farms be safe n thankful
Thanks! Mine is a Snap-on. The knob has gotten a pretty nice shine from years of use.
Sound good for setting 20 years. I like using corse black pepper than you don't end up with that slug in the coolant system
I used black pepper once, it worked well. I've also heard an egg will do the job, but I think that would be a last resort. Like if you're in the wrong neighborhood on your way home from the grocery store and the radiator springs a leak.
@@ThatOliverGuyChris I've heard eggs b4 never done eggs for a leak. I'd think a egg would make a big mess when your trying to save it
Hi, question. Oliver super 88 have same engine size as 880? Thanks
Yes. They increased the rpm on the 880 for extra power.
Thank you for the videos my grandpa farmed with Oliver and White equipment all his life
He passed away in 2023 so i bought all of his old tractors on the auction i have
A 880 gas that the governor is very jumpy is there a way to adjust that or
Is it something that i just need to live with
Thank you
Check that all the linkage moves freely, sticky linkage can make them jumpy. Also there is a screw on the front of the governor called the bump screw. That's for when the rpm surges. You could try turning that in and see if it helps. Just try like a half a turn at a time and check it again.
I will give it a shot thanks for the advice much appreciated
Hey Chris on a super 88 oliver for the hydraulic levers I would like to add another lever and outlet is the parts available still and what all do I need? Is the valve already in the hyd housing or is it just blank? Thanks
Do you currently have only 1 lever? If so chances are the valve is not in there. You would have to take the housing off the unit, remove the cover plate and replace tgat with a valve, add a lever to the cover and put it all back together. The seals and gaskets are available, but you'll need to find the other parts on the used market.
@@ThatOliverGuyChris I have one lever so I might just use an external valve block
I always liked the 880 Oliver and my dad always had me run the super 77 on the Baylor and that was the tractor I hate it
R 880 had done torque and it was hard to drive because if you were going downhill it would lock up and if you were backing up a hill or down a hill it would lock up also so you always had to pull the torque back but then you had to watch it because it went in the freewheeling and all the neighbors always tore that torch out of their tractor because they always thought they could pull it in low range and it would wear out that little gear so so why didn't they leave it in high because after they tore out the torque they had to do that anyway
baler... not capitalized either. Why the fresh new account?
Would you happen to know what the sequence is for the bolts for the head on an 880 gas?
Not off the top of my head, but I can look it up. It may be a couple days.
@@ThatOliverGuyChris we got it figured out thanks anyway
Would a seat frame off of a 1650 fit on a 1955? The part that bolts on to the tractor.
Nope. The front mount is in a different place because of the 55 series hydraulic unit. Are you taking a cab off and need a different frame?
No I bought a 1955 and they put an aftermarket seat on it so the frame and everything is missing and saw a 1650 seat frame for sale and was wondering if it would work.
Why did they put that annoying buzzer on them tractors wow
It's so you notice that the pressure is low. These didn't have a gauge, just a light and a buzzer.
6 cylinder firing order: 15 is to young, 36 is too old, 24 is JUST right…..But fail. You didn’t even try ozzing the pushrod straight.
My dad taught me to remember it by 153 with 624 underneath adds up to 777
15 will get you twenty,
36 is a sweet honey,
24 will cost you money.