Oliver 1355 147HP ?

Chad,

Here is a picture of my G-1355 Yellow Moline to give you an idea what they look like. I have not seen many yellow ones, most are red or green, and this is the first one I have ever seen with a factory canopy that is bent (probably not bent from the factory). I would not say they are collectors yet, I still see lots of them for sale at very reasonable prices.

I like this tractor, it gets around real well for a big tractor, has good power but I would guess it is more like 125Hp and not 147Hp as my engine is a little sick. If you had the engine running at 100% it might get to 147HP but this engine has a lot of trouble getting air in and exhaust out. It needs a turbo bad... I am hoping to rebuild the 585 diesel here in another year or so and put a turbo on it and give it some more power.

These engines are very hard to start in the winter, but once you get them going they are very hard to pull down or stop. I pull that 15 foot field cultivator in the picture in direct third at about 7 inches deep in our heavy clay and it just keeps on pulling.

Good tractor, Good luck with yours.

How many times have you hit your head on it????? ";^)

Myron KY

Driving that thing is kinda like driving your truck with the window viser down, you can see out from under it, but not by a lot.... Corse my head is pretty solid now from all the skillets I get, so banging on the canopy isnt a big deal. You do learn to look out for it after a time or two though :-)

You reken too many cajuns down in LA got on the canopy to escape the skeeters and bent it???? Was like that when it came east so who knows....

The over drive went out of the three speed before I bought it and it needs paint, so it is due a total rebuild and paint job here in the next year or so. Gonna paint "Ragin Cajun" on the side since it came from Louisiana :-)

I think there were some 2655 parts that would fit in the 585ci engine that would help build it up and make it last longer. I also have heard about putting the 2-150 valves in it, and also figure on putting the external oil pump and spin on filters on too. I need to do some research before I start my rebuild and see what all else I can do to make it better.

The engine in my G-1355 is all stock, internal oil pump, origional valves, inside the pan oil filter, the engine has never been opened as far as I can tell with almost 3000 hours on the clock and still runs good. I am losing compression on the #1 cylinder pretty bad and it misses on #1 until it gets warmed up and under load. It is drinking a quart of oil every 10 hours of good work, which isnt bad, and it doesnt have very much coming out of the blowby tube, but I suspect the rings are gone in #1. Someone has used starting fluid on the old girl pretty hard in the past and I feel the rings are now cracked.

I also installed a murphy switch gauge on the oil pressure system so that "if" my oil pump takes a dump it will kill the engine before it blows up (hopefully).

Super nice tractor though, would really like to have a G-950 or G-955 to go with it.

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I really dislike the intake manifold on this engine, it takes air in from #6 cylinder and runs all the way up to #1. Not sure how that would work with a turbo pushing on it.

Any Ideas???

Corse if I dont clean my shop out soon I would probably never find the parts that I buy for it.

Constant delimma.....

Thanks J. I will look you up on the HPOCA site sometime.