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Massey Ferguson Super 90 Multi-Power
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    Posted: 11 Apr 2025 at 11:46pm
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Massey Ferguson Super 90 Multi-Power


Owned by Rick & Katherine Hysinger of Mount Vernon, Kentucky.



Built 1961-1965

Engine = 77hp Continental E242 242ci 4-cylinder Gasoline

Transmission = Multi-Power
2-speed Power Shift - 16 Speeds Forward and 4 Speeds Reverse

Curiously, Massey Ferguson never built a plain old "90"; all 90s were Super 90s.
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Uncle had one. It was horse in it's day and road gear was something else!!
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not a bad looking tractor that would have had to be the fisrt multi powers 
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A neighbor had a Super 90 that he bought new, traded it off and, years later, bought it back and restored it. I think his was a diesel.
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Pretty sure all were diesels. Perkins 4 cylinder.
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In the pic it looks like a distributor and coil. Gas model.
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Sure looks like Allis rims on the back of that Massey.
'49 A-C WD, '51 A-C WD, '63 A-C D17 Series III, 1968 A-C One-Seventy, '82 A-C 6060, '75 A-C 7040, A-C #3 sickle mower, 2 A-C 701 wagons, '78 Gleaner M2
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Yer right! That's a gasser.  Frk many brands had power shift rims available and were all made by wheel mfg's not parent companies so they all looked alike.
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I remember our local AC dealer telling me, many years ago, that AC had a patent on the Power Shift rims and all other companies paid AC a "royalty" to use them on their tractors.
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Originally posted by WF owner WF owner wrote:

I remember our local AC dealer telling me, many years ago, that AC had a patent on the Power Shift rims and all other companies paid AC a "royalty" to use them on their tractors.

 
 Except for the dis-honorable penny pinchers at FORD. Just like with the lawsuit with Harry Ferguson, they refuse to pay royalties to anyone, even when ordered by the courts. Ford had their own design spin out wheel system, which they used until the patent expired.
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Operating a big tire shop, we had to deal with a lot of various tractor rims.

Regardless of tractor brand, I only ever heard those type wheels called "Power Spread" not "Power Shift".

Although the basic concept may have been the same, every brand of tractor had their own way of addressing the "clips" that locked onto the "threads" of the rim.

NONE of them worked very well; and, I have seen more than a few rims where they had been welded solid such that they could not be moved.

To most who had ever had previous dealings with them, Power Spread wheels were considered a "con" rather than a "pro" with the regular non-moving wheels much to be preferred.

Many times, the rim would be completely corroded and eaten away from the use of Calcium Chloride and would have to be replaced; this was a big enough chore with ordinary rims and a complete nightmare with Power Spread rims, as all that stuff would be rusted and frozen; and, if the customer was too frugal (tight) to buy all new clips/clamps and hardware - and they always were - then the old rusty worn-out clamps would not hold the threads properly and the wheels would "knock" and slip back and forth, soon wearing out the new threads or spreaders or whatever.

I do know that Allis Chalmers were different in the cork-screw/thread count and would not interchange with all other brands.

As best I remember, Allis Chalmers had only four threads and all others had five.

In most cases with any other brand tractor, you could just pick up a cheap "generic" fit-all rim; not so with Allis Chalmers on account of the differing thread/spreader count.
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I just looked in Norm Swinford's, A Guide To Allis Chalmers Farm tractor. On page 19 (paperback version) under the WD and WD45 (1948 - 1957) he states, "Power Shift rear rims, an AC invention, permitted quick tread changes without jacking the tractor."

Anyone that ever wanted to change the tread spacing wouldn't agree with Power Shift rims being a "con".

They had some drawbacks (the worst probably being turn the eccentrics if they weren't lubricated and turned for a long time. In my opinion, they worked good enough that other tractor companies paid royalties and copied the design.

24", 26" and 28" rims had four tracks. 30" and larger had more.

Calcium chloride ate all rims away. Power Shift were more expensive to replace.

I never heard of "power spread" rims.
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