Massey Ferguson Super 90 Multi-Power
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Topic: Massey Ferguson Super 90 Multi-Power
Posted By: BuckSkin
Subject: Massey Ferguson Super 90 Multi-Power
Date Posted: 11 Apr 2025 at 11:46pm
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Saturday_17-June-2023 Massey Ferguson Super 90 Multi-Power  Owned by Rick & Katherine Hysinger of Mount Vernon, Kentucky. http://https://www.tractordata.com/farm-tractors/005/8/7/5879-massey-ferguson-super-90.html" rel="nofollow - CLICK HERE  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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Posted By: SteveM C/IL
Date Posted: 12 Apr 2025 at 1:23pm
| Uncle had one. It was horse in it's day and road gear was something else!! |
Posted By: HudCo
Date Posted: 13 Apr 2025 at 9:06pm
| not a bad looking tractor that would have had to be the fisrt multi powers |
Posted By: WF owner
Date Posted: 14 Apr 2025 at 7:08am
| 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. |
Posted By: SteveM C/IL
Date Posted: 14 Apr 2025 at 8:37am
| Pretty sure all were diesels. Perkins 4 cylinder. |
Posted By: bemer848
Date Posted: 14 Apr 2025 at 9:32am
| In the pic it looks like a distributor and coil. Gas model. |
Posted By: AllisFreak MN
Date Posted: 14 Apr 2025 at 7:13pm
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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 |
Posted By: SteveM C/IL
Date Posted: 14 Apr 2025 at 11:09pm
| 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. |
Posted By: WF owner
Date Posted: 15 Apr 2025 at 5:12am
| 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. |
Posted By: PaulB
Date Posted: 15 Apr 2025 at 7:03am
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. ------------- If it was fun to pull in LOW gear, I could have a John Deere. Real pullers don't have speed limits. If you can't make it GO... make it SHINY |
WF owner wrote:Posted By: BuckSkin
Date Posted: 15 Apr 2025 at 7:24am
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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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Posted By: WF owner
Date Posted: 15 Apr 2025 at 10:08am
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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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