How do I adjust the carb on a super 55

ed in cny

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Had the steering go last fall on my super 55. Sent the steering to Kent Gordon and had it rebuilt. Got it in last fall and the tractor wouldn't start. Thought I had tested everything but today with help from my uncle we found that a line to the key disconnected. A swig of gas later and it was running. I had plowed the garden fields with another color tractor but wanted to drag up the fields so I used the now operational Oliver 55. It did the job but sputtered and hichuped something bad. I am wondering how the carb is adjusted. Can anyone let me know how to adjust this so it would run smoother?


Alos I thought I had oil pressure as it read 15 or so on the guage. I had to remove wires on the gauge when the steering was removed. However it looked like the guage never moved. Is there something I may have done that caused this not to show pressure correctly? How do I test that I am getting pressure and it's working?


Last thing is the tach. The tach is almost peged when the tractor is running. WHy? There is only the one cable. The meter runs but the needle is peged to the high end. Shut it off and the needle goes to 0 like it should. How did I do something to this? What fixes it?

By the way steering is real easy and that works like it should have. That's fixed.
 
Sounds like your carb needs a good cleaning,nothing good ever comes from a tractor sitting and a stopped up carb is common.Get a gasket kit and take the carb apart and clean it up,I also put a clear inline filter in every gas line just ahead of the carb on any old gas tractor I have,amazing how much stuff shows up in that filter that would have went to the carb.
 
Not sure what carb I do have. I've not had the tractor that long. Any thing to look for to verify? You guys talk of a gasket kit, what is that? Also what's a good way to really clean up the carb to get it back in shape? Some I read boil the carb in soap and water. Is there any other ways? Need to get this really fired up to get some things done and the faster I can solve this the more I can get to work with it. Thanks guys for the responses.
 
Most likely it is a Marvel-Schebler TSX 603, their should be a brass tag on the carb top section behind the mounting bolt on the air intake side with the carburetor number...
 
A gasket kit is the gaskets in a carb kit usually comes with the needle jet,and other small parts some come with the throttle shaft.To really clean up a carb good you need to take out any screws you can,clean it up with some carb cleaner and rod out the small openings especially on the bottom.The best thing I've found is a set of torch tip cleaners.Also blowing compressed air
all thru the carb while its apart is good too.If you don't know what you have you can probably take the carb to a NAPA store and they can sell you a kit for it.If you know someone that works on old tractors it'd pay you to get them to do the carb and you watch how its done the first time.
 

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