Cockshutt 2050 restoration

I stumbled across an old 2050 cockshutt FWA in a local scrap yard. Story is that it developed a miss and the old farmer parked and never got around to fixing it and it ended up in the scrap after the new highway bought out the farm. I believe that is the case and lucky enough i had another junker case to trade the scrap man and save this relic. What im looking for is a decent running hercules 478 to drop in it, the old farmer never covered the exhaust and it junked the entire engine! I know these engines were in the 2050/2150 oliver/cockshutt and then in the white 2-135 and 2-155, also a oliver 840 forage harvester. cant seem to locate just an engine. Any help would be greatly appreciated!!

Where are you located? The best solution is to get yourself a military version of the engine. Send me an e-mail. Thanks J.

(quoted from post at 13:40:18 09/05/17) Where are you located? The best solution is to get yourself a military version of the engine. Send me an e-mail. Thanks J.

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Don't know how to post a link but maybe you can copy and paste
https://m.facebook.com/kyle.kluemke.7/posts/pcb.10155082111529007/?photo_id=339433873171599&mds=%2Fphotos%2Fviewer%2F%3Fphotoset_token%3Dpcb.10155082111529007%26photo%3D339433873171599%26profileid%3D100006553985373%26source%3D48%26refid%3D18%26_ft_%3Dqid.6462439504088608166%253Amf_story_key.10155082111529007%253Atop_level_post_id.10155082111529007%253Atl_objid.10155082111529007%26__tn__%3DEH-R%26cached_data%3Dfalse%26ftid%3D&mdf=1

when the engine in my 2150 ventilated itself, i got a surplus "all fuel" 478 from Kublo's in northeast Pa.
http://www.kublossurplus.com/
it requires switching most everything (starter, alt, water pump, don't remember about the fuel system) over from the oliver engine. 2150 is still running 20 years later.

I see the military versions forsale but i just havent picked one up because im not sure of how they match up. Does the exhaust manifold on the military one flip over and work facing up like the ag motor? What has to be changed on them to make them fit the ag application? Thanks for the responses

A couple years ago one of my close friends found a 2150 FWA with the herc. that sucked # 6 sleeve and he came to me wanting to FIX it , well them Hec.'s require a couple special tools to work on them and then like others have said good luck . Well we could fix the block with a repair sleeve that's not the problem so we can do that now to find engine parts , Well after some digging i found parts to do a rebuild ( man are they proud of them Herc. parts) Next to find the couple special tools i looked high and low for just one of them and came up empty handed . So vernon and i sat down and talked about this and we thought about going the Duce and a half multi. fuel 478 . Then he said lets just put a cummins in it , so we did . We found a 8.3 Cummins with the correct rear sump pan the correct injection p[ump for ind. app and it only had a little over 900 hours run time on a gen set and set at 207 Hp.at 1970 RPM . We bought a new flywheel from Maybaugh's made for the last new whites that ran the 8.3 a new starter for the flywheel qand this engine alread had the type 2 SAE bell housing so it would bolt up to the over under and then we found out that we had to make a change to the oil pan so that it would clear the ft. drive shaft . What we did there was to cut the sump off and make a sorta box on the bottom inplace of the sump , we had to shorten the pick up tube and extend it to the read a couple inches and kept it about a 1/4 off the bottom of the WINGED box we made . This box extended back a bit towards the flywheel and out to the sides just enough that it would clear the tub when lowering the engine into the frame , this allowed up not to loose any oil capacity and we placed the drain plug to keep it off to the side away from the ft. drive shaft . Fan hub on this engine had to be moved up to the upper holes already in place and allowed the fan to mount with in a 1/2 inch of stock location . Ya had to trim the fan shroud a bit . Make up- four engine mounts buy one special hose from Cummins for the bottom of the block do a little rewiring and it was a done deal . Total cost in the job with engine and all the pieces and parts came in at a grand less then it would have cost to rebuild . Yep she is NOT as from the factory but it is not a show toy it is back in the field working , She is a big clumsy old beast , she is heavy does not turn short and it does not give up . For us it is the best bunker packing leveling tractor we have to use . I have a few pictures of her on my Photo bucket account .

Thanks for the link to facebook, talked to guy and he has the herc forsale still so i am going to get it from him and keep the 2050 as original as possible!

manifolds are another thing that you use the oliver parts for. the military engine becomes basically a short block by the time you are done. glad you found an original.

(quoted from post at 08:41:11 09/06/17) Thanks for the link to facebook, talked to guy and he has the herc forsale still so i am going to get it from him and keep the 2050 as original as possible!

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Great! I hope its a good one and works out for you.