Wondering about Engine side shields?

cleddy

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I have never been around Oliver or seen very many. I was just wondering if the tractors with engine side covers were suspose to be left on all the time and all year round? I bought some side shield for a WD Allis Chalmers but I think they were only used with a mounted corn Picker. On a tractor that sit outside most of the time I may paint them up and just leave them on all the time?? It would help keep the weather off from the engine. Cldddy
 
I don't know that there was ever any official recommendation to take them off, but they usually ended up leaning against a wall or a tree in hot weather.
 
The Olivers with full side shields ran hotter with the shields on when working. So when the tractor needed to work the shields were removed. If you do not plan to work your tractor you will probably be ok.
 
My dad had a 52, 66 diesel for the main tractor and the side shields never came off.
He pulled his number 8 Baler with it with a wagon behind it, ran the silo filler also. I can't say for sure about my uncles 70 and 60, but when I saw them they were on them too. I think it was for convenience.

This post was edited by J.Wondergem on 11/19/2022 at 06:43 am.
 
I guess not everyone had the heating problem. My experience with the 77 I got a few years ago. Mowing hay with the shields on it ran hot with the muffler was under the hood. I removed the shields and the temp ran normal. I have always heard that was the reason the shields were removed.
 
I would guess those with the muffler under there it would get much hotter than those with muffler on top. My dad had a 70 and he had to take
them off in the summer. I had a Case 351 with a down flow muffler and side shields. We went on a tractor ride when the temp was a steady 99
degrees all day. When we went east it was ok, but when we came back west, the tractor didn't overheat but I got vapor lock. As soon as I
took the shield off on that side (the sun and carb side) it ran fine. Olivers had more louvers than my Case, that only had a large exit
louver out the back so maybe not as touchy.
 
Thanks for all the answers. I think it safe to say this WD Allis Chalmers tractor will never see HARD work again. But back in the 60s we farmed 400 acres with two WD Allis and a C Allis and they were always overworked. I remember pulling 3 bottom plow in wheat stubble creeping along in first gear thru weeds taller than the tractor. When it would get hot and boiling we would stop and dump a gallon of water in and keep going. At least once we broke a crank shaft and another time the lift arms broke off the back of the tractor?? My Dad over did everything and most of his implements took most of the power just to carry them. I think the only reasons we had shields with the early mounted corn picker was because the shucks were right next to the engine?? With a later Heavy New Idea picker the shields were tossed in the junk pile. Pile
 
(quoted from post at 03:32:36 11/20/22) I would guess those with the muffler under there it would get much hotter than those with muffler on top. My dad had a 70 and he had to take
them off in the summer.
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Probably about right. Our Ollie 90 always had the side louvres fitted (never removed, until they rusted away - and since replaced). It was worked hard at times, but usually when ploughing in the autumn.

A kero burner, so the manifold was always hot, but the rad was likely more than adequate for nearly all conditions. The radiator blind was, as I recall, only raised for initial warm-up. The later thermostatted top manifold was fitted early in its life. The replacement radiator core is one, or two, rows less than the original.
 

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