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Inherited my Dad's Oliver Super 88

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Riverslim

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Don't know too much about the old tractor. Does rear end/trans use 80W-90? Add through the hole near the shifter? That will feed both trans and rear end?
thanks in advance
 
An excellent tractor.
The first thing you need to do is to purchase a maintenance/operator's manual.
 
Buy some books you will need them. I have an oliver 70 and I put whatever gear oil I have around in it. I would use that weight of oil and the hole near the shifter will fill the trans and rearend on a 70, never had an 88 but I am sure they are the same
 
Good tractor at around 55HP I love the one I own and use it to pull my baler
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Yes 80w-90 and yes fill near shifter at large plug.We put in a full 5 gal bucket when totally drained.
 
OK. I'll buy that. The only green wheeled ones around me were diesels. That one old has appeared to be a gasser but I might be wrong.
 
My S88 is a 1955 and yep I have it painted as it would have been when new. I took a month or so studying things to make sure just how it should be painted. I wanted it to as least look at say 20 feet like it did when it rolled off the factory line
 
Then the wheels wern't painted green to identify them as diesels? All the 1955s, diesel and gas had green wheels? If that's the case, then the guys around me who bought diesels must have bought them in 1955. By the same token, the guys who bought gassers must not have bought them in 55 because every neighbor who had a Super 88 diesel had green wheels and every gasser I saw had red wheels.
 
It was the year made that set them as to having red or green wheels or at least that is what I had found out. I still have the sales paper I got from some one so as to know how to paint my S88
 
Late in '54,when the Super 66,77 and 88 were introduced,they had green wheels,but went back to red after 1/1/57.Didn't matter gas or diesel.
 
Late in '54,when the Super 66,77 and 88 were introduced,they had green wheels,but went back to red after 1/1/57.Didn't matter gas or diesel.
 
Thanks for setting me straight on that. It looks like Oliver wanted to make their brand new Super series which they introduced for the 1955 model year look different by painting the wheels green. What threw me off I guess was that all of our neighbors who bought Super 88 diesels must have bought them in '55 or'56. Coincidence. Because all of the guys I knew who had gassers had red wheels. One terrific tractor because power was alwys needed when plowing old alfalfa sod on red clay. One neighbor used to put a straight exhaust pipe on his Super 88 when plowing. In the evening, when it was still, you could hear that thing in the next county.
 
I believe my Dad's tractor was a 1954 (diesel) it has the foot actuated starter set-up. Has white wheels now, but I think red before that. Enjoyed reading all your comments.
Stan
 
Ya I use my S88 to pull a NH850 chain baler. Book calls for min. of 55HP for that baler but I don't think my S88 knows how to read because it just plays with the baler
 
My Super had white rear wheels and red fronts when I got it. I knew from the get go the white ones where wrong and after doing some research found out the red was also wrong so when I painted it I went back to what it would have been when new
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