Old Olivers Start Faster With Gear Reduction Starters

Old Olivers Start Faster With Gear Reduction Starters TRACTORS Accessories Get a gear reduction starter from Maple Springs Farm and your Oliver won’t grind down the battery on a cold morning The modern style starter gives the extra cranking speed needed to turn over the engine without running down the battery “In the winter we rely on our Olivers to plow our driveway and periodically move equipment in the dead of winter ” explains Eric Rego Maple Springs Farms “We don’t always have the luxury of waiting for a block heater to warm an engine We began looking for a solution to provide better all around starting ” What Rego and his dad Bob found was a gear reduction starter that fits their older Olivers After posting a video about it on YouTube orders began coming in and now they offer starters for all Waukesha and Perkins-powered Olivers and Whites That includes the Fleetlines 77’s and 88’s up to the early Whites They offer both 10-tooth and 13-tooth starters Rego explains that gear reduction starters create more pinion shaft torque for a given amount of energy input A faster spin-up can be achieved since the armature mass and inertia are smaller than direct drive starters They also weigh less Not all gear reduction starters are the same warns Rego Even the same company can have different grades of starters “What separates our product from others is that each starter is bench-tested for performance here at our company ” he says Maple Springs Farm has also done back-to-back on-vehicle application testing and has benchmarked a 10 to 20 percent increase in cranking speed with their starters Rego says their starters really shine with diesels and engines that have been over-bored or have high compression “A 20 percent difference in speed can make a tremendous difference in generating a higher in-cylinder light-off temperature during the compression stroke on a diesel ” says Rego “This means a diesel engine will fire faster at a given temperature and will start without a starting aid at a lower ambient air temperature ” He adds that small displacement gas engines benefit as well from gear reduction starters Faster cranking speeds improve fuel atomization for easier ignition and even choke-free starts in some situations The Oliver Gear Reduction Starter is priced at $224 95 including shipping Maple Springs Farm also carries remanufactured starters and other parts for Olivers as well as gasket sets and overhaul kits for Ford tractors including a spin-on filter adapter for 2N 8N and 9N Fords “In addition we do urethane castings to reproduce plastic and rubber parts for Olivers ” says Rego “We also do hard-to-find Oliver sheet metal parts including hoods side panels and more as well as other parts and products ” A video at www farmshow com compares a stock starter to the gear reduction starter Contact: FARM SHOW Followup Maple Springs Farm 1828 County Road PB Verona Wis 53593 ph 608 658-2072; rrego@tds net; http://stores ebay com/Maple-Springs-Farm

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