Pictures of the 550

The rest is pretty rough. The 3 pt arms and the linkage, including the rockshaft have excessive slop, the front axel is worn, and the seat needs some major rework to it. Lights are far from working too.

The loader arms on it now aren't the original ones with the frame, we got a different 1510 at a junk yard for $700, and plan to trade the extra frame with the guy who bought the original arms and hood that was in the bucket for the hood back. The frame on the tractor is in very good condition with no cracks and bigger cylinders. The arms don't have any cracks but the pivot holes do have some extra wear in them. The bucket can still be saved, even though it looks really bad.

If any of you guys have pictures with dimensions of the hitch on the 550, I will try to make one up. The aftermarket style would be good enough. Just want to be able to hook onto things with a drawbar.

Donovan from Wisconin

You will like the 550, I had one, no loader though. I had the drawbar on mine. For some reason I think the drawbar was the same as a 66. Don't know about the 77. You have to remove the drawbar in order to use the 3ph hitch, which was a pain. Drawbar was attached to a special bracket which I see in your 3rd pic you have. It used 2 Oliver special L shaped bolts to the bracket, then 2 bars went up to the 3rd member part of the 3ph hitch. You probably know this already, but I posted in case you didn't.

Suggestion: There is a hard steel bolt that holds the pto stub shaft in its collar. I would replace it. I lost an expensive pto stub shaft to learn that.

KEH

Would the bracket underneath work from a different model? I was probably gonna go to the junk yard and use a drawbar off a different model. If the bracket underneath will work that'd save us a little work too.

Donovan from Wisconsin