| Author | Message | ||
     Jeff Fowler |
Does anyone know where I can obtain a complete Technical Service Manual for my Oliver 770 (NOT the operators manual which I have the original of)? | ||
| Jeff Fowler |
Hey, I forgot I had another couple of questions. Does anyone know where I can obtain either an original or after market 770 bucket steel seat? Also, I recently obtained a second 770 (1960) with a frozen engine (sat outside, unused, for a long, long, long, long time according to the owner). I've pulled the plugs and filled the cylinders with a combo 1/3 Marvel Mystery oil, 1/3 Kerosene, and 1/3 Transmission oil, put it in gear and pulled (jerked would probably be a better description) it with another tractor. If this mixture is going to work, does anyone want to offer a time frame to me before I should hang it up and tear the engine apart and attempt the more acceptable reapair approach. | ||
| Chris Losey (Admin) |
You can obtain a service manual from the Floyd County Museum. Visit their manuals web site at http://www.olivertractormanuals.org For the seat, keep an eye on Ebay. It seems like I see one on there every now and then. I'm not sure how long it would take. I haven't really worked on freeing up a stuck motor. Some other stuff to pour in the cylinders that I have heard get high marks is Coca-Cola. Another is olive oil. Coke does a nice job of eating the rust without eating the good metal that's still in there. Plus it's fun to drink from the same can as your tractor. | ||
| Bob |
If you have been pulling it around the yard tryin y to free it up you can almost be certain that you have bent all the rods or at least the ones that are on the stuck pistons anyways. I have even seen the rods get bent from just usin a big bar on the crank bolt on the front of crankshaft. | ||
| Jeff Fowler |
Bob: Sorry if I misled you, I didn't say I had been "pulling it around the yard," I had my Cousin on it, and the tractor was in 2nd gear with the clutch in (so in was in essentially the neutral position), and as I slowly pulled it backwards, and then stopped my pulling, and the tractor rolled forward on a slight incline of its own weight, he would let the clutch out for a split second, then back in. This process worked on my other Oliver 770 without any permanent damage or problems - its running and performing ALL farm chores GREAT thank you. I don't want to try the pulley bolt for fear of breaking it off, not to mention bending the rods. |
