1942 Oliver 60 Standard - Installing an Air Cleaner

Here's another job on the old 60 Std, installing the oil bath air cleaner I removed from the parts 60. This should have taken a fraction of the time it took to do, but this time it isn't the factory's fault (the other "long" job was putting on the radiator and nose shell (link here)). This 15-minute job took three hours. The reason this time is because the carburetor is not correct for the engine. The carb is close to being correct but the real issue is that the lever for the throttle plate is on the wrong side of the carburetor (it's on the side of the carb facing out and is supposed to be on the side of the carb facing the engine). A previous owner had jury-rigged a piece of all-thread as linkage from the governor lever to the throttle lever. The setup looks very much kludged together but it works well. The problem is, the left part of the all-thread is taking up real estate that the air cleaner needs to occupy.

Vintage Jaeger (British) Speedometer Repair

Don't ask me why I began working on this project because I really don't know. I guess it's the part of me that has the need to fiddle with things. This speedometer came in a box of stuff that came with a basket case Farmall C tractor I bought a while back. The speedometer obviously didn't belong with the tractor.

1942 Oliver 60 Standard - "New" Grilles and Radiator

It's been awhile since I did anything of significance on a tractor. Well, a few days ago I did get a guy's David Bradley garden tractor's engine running, but that doesn't really count. Today I decided to install an original Oliver radiator and grille halves on this tractor that I had gotten off somewhat of a parts tractor I'd bought six months ago. It should have been a simple process of swapping parts from one tractor to the other. Well, an hour job took four hours. The final product though is so nice.