Oliver 77 is alive and drives!

grandpa Love · Dec 25, 2018

Short video of it's maiden voyage. Great Christmas gift! Gotta figure out the shift pattern! Also gotta clean out fuel tank, it runs out of syrup too fast!

Where should this go?

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johnlobb · Dec 25, 2018

Looks like your temperature sending unit, usually screws into a 1/4" or 3/8" port in the head or sometimes the block...

jm. · Dec 25, 2018

G L The shifting is real cool. just look at the tag but there is actually TWO neutrals depending on which one you are in will depend what gear you end up in. Takes a little getting use to but works nice once you figure it out.

RobCons · Dec 25, 2018

Way to go! Sounds great. Good looking Christmas attire on the front.

greg oliver · Dec 25, 2018

Grandpa Love, Looked in my original 1951 manual for shifting instructions. Thought it might help.

Philip d · Dec 25, 2018

That sounds great!

Richard G. · Dec 25, 2018

One of these days we are going to drive down that way and see you folks. You got some neat tractors.
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rrlund · Dec 25, 2018

Just think of it as a high low range and shift on one lever.

grandpa Love · Dec 25, 2018

Thanks! I gotta order me some books to go with it now.

grandpa Love · Dec 25, 2018

Come on down! We will drive some tractors around and eat some biscuits! Bring some syrup!

grandpa Love · Dec 25, 2018

Stepped on the pedal to the far right and something spun around. I'm guessing its the hydraulics for cultivators? Also PTO spins all the time. Lever has a push button on top, it releases but lever doesn't move. Tips?

David Snipes · Dec 25, 2018

Is that auxiliary fuel tank an Oliver factory option?

greg oliver · Dec 25, 2018

Grandpa Love, PTO lever pulled back is off. They are pretty simple might need shims added. The previous owner of one of my tractors pulled all the shims and PTO turned all the time. Once you have a manual it will show you how to adjust it.

Dick L · Dec 25, 2018

You shifting pattern would be the one at the bottom or left of the page. I have 6 77's and three 66's all with that pattern. When they set for a long time some get hard to shift up and down. I never grip the knob shifting up or down. Pop it straight up or down. Dad bought his first 77 in 1950 and that was the instructions from the dealer. The shifter is self centering and when shifting up a sharp bump with the palm of your hand puts it up where you then go left or right then up or down. The dealer said when you grip the shifter going up or down you tend to push the shifter off its center.

Neighbor bought a 77 and ask me how to get it to shift. When I got on it was really stiffing from high to low range and I had bump real hard and it took several tries to bump it hard enough to shift. After several times it was where he could shift it. I assumed it had not been shifted for years.

grandpa Love · Dec 25, 2018

Sounds like what ours is doing. Hard to get between the upper and lower .will keep playing with it.

Donald in MN · Dec 25, 2018

the thing that went around is the mechanical lift for the cultivator or corn picker my grandpas 77 had a picker at one time

grandpa Love · Dec 25, 2018

It's special order! I may have a one of a kind.

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