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impressed with the AC 160

J

jason, NW Ontario

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I just unloaded it from the trailer last week, and got to put it through its paces today. Despite having no ballast in the tires, the low reverse had me creeping out of the manure pile slop with a full bucket no problem. At 0.8mph, I almost can't wait to blow snow with it.
I sprayed the bolts on the power-adjust wheels with WD-40, hoping that I can snug them in a bit. I'm loving the 3 cylinder Perkins, and loving how they pulled over 40hp out of it when MF could only get 38.
Jay
 
MF could get more than 38 HP out of an AD3-152. MF owned Perkins and they probably built the engine for the HP AC wanted. Probably the same reason someone mentioned that a White 2-105 had more HP than an Oliver/Cockshutt 1850.
 
Massey Ferguson sold a variety of tractors with the AD3-152 used as a power plant. Quite a few were well over 40 hp. I've got one in a MF150 that will dyno 47hp now, although it was originally rated at 38pto.

Back in the day when the AD3-152 was a new engine, so I've been told, the British Gov levied a tax on engines based on HP. 40hp was a break off point, so engines would routinely be "de-rated" to less than 40 as a way of avoiding paying so much export tax.

The Perkins AD3-152 was rated well above 40 on several 200 series Massey's.

and, for the record, the Perkins in your AC was built by .....Perkins.....which was at that time, owned directly by MASSEY FERGUSON....So MF got 40 hp out of YOUR Perkins!
 
Be aware that ALL bolts used on a ALLIS 160 are METRIC. The kicker is they have standard SAE heads. Example: If a 3/4 inch wrench fits the head, the shank of the bolt IS NOT 1/2 inch.

Kent
 
I AM NOT debating the size of the metric bolt other than when these tractors were first out, early 70's, that many farmers because the head of the bolt was standard US inch size tried installing a standard US inch or fraction there of in a hole that was A METRIC STANDARD HOLE. NOT one of Allis's better ideas. I think they were also trying to hide the tractor foreign production. I worked for a Allis dealer in the late 60's/early 70's.

Kent
 
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