Oliver 1750 repower?

That's my 2¢ anyway.
Myron KY

PS. I know where a set of those dual hubs are if your interested. Local dealer has a 1950T he's parting out with them on it. At least they were the last time I looked.

If that doesn't work for you, then duals are the way to go.

I hope you have, or will have, a ROPS!

You can get band type duels, they are more popular but can be a real pain if you take them on and off a lot. Oliver did make some hub mount duels with a deep dish rim on the duel tire. You would have to get all the pieces to make this work, there is a special hub that replaces the one on your tractor axle now, a spacer and then the deep dish wheels that bolt up with the 9 bolt pattern. You can probably find all that at a bone yard, but it may be pricy.

I run a set of duels on the G-1355 Moline, but they are planetary style duels since the Moline has outboard planetaries on the wheels you have to have a special rim to fit on for the duel.

Hope this helps,

Glad you like my website, I have some new pictures to put on it, but havent been out of the tractor seat long enough to do it.

• Shep's World

I have an 1850 Oliver with a 5.9L Cummins engine in it. We set the power to 145HP on the 540 PTO and ran it like that for about a year. As long as the RPM's were up and it was pulling it was fine, let the RPM's down to 1500 or so and lug the engine and the coupler chain would fly apart after a few hours (my grandfather grrrrr ). The Cummins engine has a HUGE amount of tork down low RPM,s and that can distroy a chain. After the chain comes apart three or four times it takes the transmission input shaft with it. Thats not an easy or cheap fix....

I let the power down to 135 on the PTO on the 1850 and have been running it ever since with only one chain failure, corse we are keeping the RPM's up more now too when pulling.

You will find the coupler chain is the weak point in the drive line, if the chain and the input shaft can hold the power the rest of the rear end should be good to go. But I dont think you can hold more than 135Hp on the chain for a long time, at least not with Cummins tork agenst it. Now a Waukesha or Perkins engine my be different and you may be able to hold a little more HP but you will have to play with it and see.

Now if you get a tractor like my 2150 with a trunion mount instead of a coupler chain, now that is a different story. :-)

• Shep's World

The torque capacity of chain coupler can be doubled by increasing it's diameter by just 50%. If the room exists to do so, a "job shop" should be able to make up one for you. Increasing the size of the chain (link thickness, barrel diameter) can further add to torque capacity. If you have an industrial supply shop nearby they can show you off-the-shelf chain used in industrial applications. You would then take the chain to the job shop so they can calculate the exact root diameter and tooth configuration based on the maximum diameter coupler that would fit.

This won't be cheap but you do a lot of them and once they make one for you they duplicate the first one for a lot less $$$.

If "job shop" is a new term to anyone... it's just a machine shop that specializes in quick computerized engineering and small production runs of the actual parts. Most of the cost is usually in the one-time engineering charge. They keep the numerical control programs on file so that months or years later you can just ask them to run one more part and get it pronto.

I looked into putting a trunion on in place of a chain coupler, but I am running into some challenges with that. I have also considered trying to run a chain with center bars instead of a doubler roller, but I havent figured out if that will all work or not either. I had thought of a larger chain, or a different sprocket configeration, but there is limited space in that area to do something like this. I think it would be possible, but right about the time I think I want to try something because a chain has been breaking a lot, it all the sudden quits and doesnt break again for the entire summer. Go figure.

I guess I turned the 1850 down about 10 Hp and got my grandfather off of it and it has been staying togeather real well here lately.

Thanks for the thoughts Ollie.