1953Minneapolis U

rustred

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trying out new computer, my minnie.
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1953 was first of new hood design,12v system,pressurized cooling system and ribs in fenders. Mid 52 mods started.
 
its all original paint. it also has the semi-live pto deal with the left axle wider.
 
Bull pinion already changed in ones with disc brakes making the kinda LPTO easier to add. Ones with drum brakes a major job to install. Have several. Option goes back. Bulletin on how to add. Have a UBED with one and have even seem a Massey 95 with.
 
don't suppose you have the adjusting info, as it slips under load. appears like fender has to come off the get cover off to adjust it.
 
IT Manual MM-6 for the GB UB ZB or MM-201 which incorporates several MM manuals including MM-6 has a couple pages on this PTO clutch
 
Dad's 52 still all original, has Arched axel, old style hood, 6V, Ribbed fenders, Non pressure cooling, Disc Brakes w/ pedals on the left, continuous PTO, and small lights.
According to the parts book if it had continuous PTO it had disc brakes. If not they were still shoe brakes.
I think the PTO set up was AMCO. They invented the tractor disc brakes (ball and ramp). The PTO clutch was similar parts. Massey used the same setup. The M&W unit came out latter,
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what ever ur comfortable with paying... I payed 1k for this one. had couple stuck valves and bent pushrods. had to pull off front head to replace one guide. buy battery, 165.00 for the skinny 12 volt. pull tank and clean it. now have good tractor.
 
Let me explain a bit more. The U has been sitting for 4-5 years. Same fellow I bought the MM r and Oliver 77 from. Both of them are running and driving. Minor work to get both going. U maybe worth it. Can't remember what tires look like......
 
I have a picture here taken in 1967 of our family U pulling a MM G4 combine harvesting windrowed wheat in the Red River valley of western Mn. I believe it was a 1952 and it looks about like the one in the picture here except it had 15-30 tires. It did not have live hydraulics, my uncle put a char-lynn pump off the PTO which was not live. It was a good tractor had from about 1959 or 60 up until the late 80's. Sadly, it ended in the junk yard.
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CORRECTION CORRECTION !!!!!
I stated that AMMCO invented the ball and ramp brakes. that didn't sound quit right to me, but that was all I could think of.(They made wiper blades).
The brakes were invented and made by Ausco-Lambert. All of a sudden it came to me this morning. I remembered an ad by Ausco-Lambert in an Implement and Tractor Nebraska book with a picture of an MM tractor advertising their brakes. Later on other companies used them CASE, MH, ect.
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