Where is everyone #5

Instant recognition for me -

This Pete still has a cigar lighter socket in it that I use for power for the ELD and the iPhone . . . . .

Let me read that sentence back to myself and remind me how gaaaaay it sounds, when I should just be searching

"Cigar lighter replacements for older vehicles before men started sporting man-buns"

 

The 70 series were like that. I've got a 90 and a 94 series in the shop right now with tilting hoods. I swear I work on stuff older than I am more than I do the newer stuff. No complaints, it's all nuts & bolts.

 

Ahh...the old "check to see if the cigarette lighter is hot" trick.

 

Might take you up on that if my home projects allow me some riding time to bring the Harley down, but that's a big if. About a 6 hour ride so I'll get close to an Iron Butt ride length in. Ton of projects to try and get done this year, though, and I'm not getting any faster...in fact, I think I'm getting slower.

 

Should have made her drinks "triple strength", as Mr Shellhammer put it, before you tell her.

 

At least around here, us kids always played with the 12v cigarette lighters. The mark they burned into your fingertip was the first pic

 

Back when trucks had vent windows and only women had buns and purses.

 

The older stuff is getting worn out, but, look at how many years it’s been getting it done, without a sensor or computer problem lol. There’s good and bad in the older ones just as the newer though.

Some of the equipment I haul is sold to folks who own newer equipment but are tired of electronic issues, so they buy older equipment they themselves can work on. Some of the stuff I own I have because of it being unique or low production, like my 300 Roundnose with the triple range transmission. 12 forward and 3 reverse. It was new innovation in the 50’s. My V series was the predecessor to the VA using outsourcing for the engine and gearing, Case made the housings and sheet metal. Continental engine with Clark gears, and only made for 2 years with less than 800 produced, much more made in the VC version which was tricycle front end.

The V was designed to compete with IH A model / Cub along with the Allis Chalmers C / B model. They were trying to produce a 1 plow tractor and ended up with a 2 plow by accident, they didn’t want a 2 plow which would compete with the R model of that time. To keep from producing a whole different tractor they opted to alter the throttle control, which lowered the HP rating allowing it to only pull 1 plow. 1st / 2nd gear it would only turn 1400 rpm, 3rd / 4th and neutral it would turn 1650 rpm. All worked off the shifter housing top plate on the transmission. Case paid royalties to Allis Chalmers for the torque tube design which they used on the V & VA series.

Oliver designed the transmission to put both the main transmission and Hi / Lo range all on one gearstick unlike the Massey Ferguson which used 2 levers. Oliver designed live pto by running a shaft from the flywheel all the way back through the transmission to the rear of the tractor, same shaft turned the hydraulic pump in the transmission as well achieving live hydraulics as well as live pto. Transmission got power from a hollow tube outside of this shaft.

Ford came out with the Jubilee in 53 achieving live hydraulics from a pump turned by the flywheel, unlike the N series which ran off the pto shaft.

Lot of trying to stay in front of the competition by all the manufacturers, I guess in todays world they still do just with modern technology and electronics. If Case would have put a road gear in the D series like IH did with the H / M models it may have lived longer in production. The D series is unique with the fact the shafts in the transmission run side to side instead of front to back so it shifts side to side on the H pattern. They also used internal chains to drive the rear axles. Sprockets instead of bull gears. They also had a wet clutch, oil supplied by the engine lubricated the clutch.

Lot of ideas now forgotten…

 

The D series…

 

How ya feel bout 8min?

scale in
put 55k in the bucket
scale out
tarp it
Lmao

Flew the coop
Adiós Peoria


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