550 Perkins

BM · Jun 9, 2011

Does anyone remember any details on this tractor? It has been repainted and since it's already not original paint I'd like to put a showroom paint job on it. Funny thing is, after doing some intense pressure washing it's got industrial orange paint under the green. It's orange everywhere, engine, front bolster, rear end, hydraulic housing, steering box, everywhere. It seems to just have 2 layers of paint. Green, which is obviously not factory Oliver green and the paint is not that old, and the orange underneath.
It also has the 24" rear rims with welded in centers, typically a industrial 550 wheel. The rear tires have been replaced with longbar shortbar's, I'm thinking it originally had I-3 industrial tires on it and got tired of their lack of traction and replaced them.
It does have a adjustable width front axle, I don't remember if the early industrial tractors used that before they went to the fixed axle.

I'm really thinking that this is actually a industrial tractor that they used for their experimental repower rather than a row crop.

John Harmon. · Jun 9, 2011

I personaly would like to see a picture of the machine prior to commenting on it,if possible.

oliver fan · Jun 9, 2011

Is your tractor the one that was at the HPOCA winter show a couple of years ago, or is it a different one? That one was put together by an engineering firm in Chicaco.

The reason I ask, I know of a super 44 that has a perkins diesel engine in it. It was put in by a Perkins factory distributor in the east. I wonder if they put one in a 550 also.

BM · Jun 9, 2011

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BM · Jun 9, 2011

It was there, I was told, but that was before we owned it.

Anonymous-0 · Jun 9, 2011

A couple of years ago when the tractor first was at a show I looked at the pictures Chris posted of the engine. That engine still has a BPE pump where most of the other models of the same engine at that time had a DPA pump. I also remmeber when my employer was on the dealer council and was telling one of our sharper customers where Oliver had made some inquiry into the purchase of Perkin. Also the Perkins would have been more acceptable for export sales.

SW3 · Jun 10, 2011

My 550 has a lot of gold paint showing up under the green. I think it"s just the primer. But the spot on yours back by the shifter looks like is has the gold paint and then orange on top of that.

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