Good bad and ugly on 1755 diesel?

I'm looking at a 1755 diesel Cockshutt for $5500 that has 4500 hrs on it. Anyone have any advice on the good bad and the ugly for this model, engine, tranny etc? If you can just let me know your thoughts on it I'd appreciate it.

Thanks alot. Paul

I heard that maybe the later models had upgraded bolts and bushings in them? Anyone know if this is true or if there's a serial # cutoff where they started with the upgrades?

Thanks Paul

The trannies are built to take more HP than the 1755 is putting out, and are fairly reliable. Over/under's are also pretty good, don't hear about them going out all too often unlike IH's TA.

Now for our own experiences, we had a 1755 that was a money pit. It finally blew it's engine (think a spun bearing)a couple years ago. It had a bad shifter fork, replaced it, and within 50 hours or so the whole transmission locked up and was replaced with one from an 1855. The engine had some work done on the top 1/2, can't remember what was all done to it, but it wasn't cheap. Also had the injection pump rebuilt on it at that time.

If your's is a later model (there are slight differences to the location of the key/preheat button, etc...) it's worth a little more in my eye.

It has the same notorious 310 diesel (search the 310 in this forum) as was in the 1855's that blew up, but they weren't supposed to be as bad in the 1755 because they weren't turboed. Those bad 18's have since either been fixed or scrapped, and the rest are pretty good.

I know I'm not extremely fond of the 1755's, but we do have an 1855 which replaced it and it's been great. I'm also thinking of tearing into the 17 and fixing it up, even though it's already sunk us for close to $20,000 in repairs a few years back. That's part of the reason I want to fix it- after all those repairs, there surely can't be that much left to go wrong... can there??

Donovan from Wisconsin

Its real nice cond, its also Canadian $ :) so it's a bit different maybe I noticed that US prices for tractors seem to be better or maybe that's just me. Did you happen to know of there was serial number after which the factory started upgrading the motors in the 1755's or is that just wishful thinking on my part?

Thanks alot for your time buddy I appreciate it.

The key, pre-heat, and fuel shut-off(choke for gassers) on the older 17 is on the dash underneath the stering wheel, where as the later 1855 we have has the key and pre-heat button off to the side under the tach and the fuel shut-off is under the speedometer.

That's the biggest difference I can see right away between the newer/older models. Not sure how close they coincide with the updates to the engine, or if everything was changes all at once.

Donovan from Wisconsin

My experience is very similar to what Donovan describes. I ended up selling my 1755 as it was a money pit, seemed everytime I turned around something was breaking. I would fix it then work a week and something else would fail.

Now in all fairness the rig was RODE VERY HARD and PUT UP WET!! I learned alot from that purchase as I was overly excited about getting a big Oliver, especially here in the Deep South (Olivers are scarce in this country).

My next venture into Big Ollies is finally to get a 1650 WFE DSL. Watch for updates real soon!

Below is a link to this same question I posted some time back.

HTH

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When I get my 1650 then perhaps a future, future project.

Right now I am trying to raise $$ for tractor pull this fall. Sure could use some OLIVER POWER down here (HINT HINT FELLAs)