Beautiful Allis-Chalmers 8550 Ad
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Topic: Beautiful Allis-Chalmers 8550 Ad
Posted By: AllisChalmers37
Subject: Beautiful Allis-Chalmers 8550 Ad
Date Posted: 13 Dec 2010 at 8:52pm
At a cost of $86,753 new they were big, bad, and beautiful. Was this one of the first 8000 series tractors? The ad still advertises the 7580 so it may be.
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Posted By: ILGLEANER
Date Posted: 13 Dec 2010 at 8:59pm
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It was an 8550 but considered in the 7000 series tractors,if that makes any sense IG------------- Education doesn't make you smart, it makes you educated. |
Posted By: Russ-neia
Date Posted: 13 Dec 2010 at 9:10pm
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I never understood the numbering on the 8550. If an articulated 7080 was a 7580, wouldn't a larger tractor be an 8580 or 7880 or ? ------------- The innovators offer what others will imitate. |
Posted By: AllisChalmers37
Date Posted: 14 Dec 2010 at 1:09am
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There is a definate difference between the 7580 and the 8550. You can see it just by looking at them. I can see alot of difference in the grille, it looks alot wider on the 8550. It's like they are in the process of converting to the 8000 series and the newer articulated tractors like the 4W-305.
The Allis-Chalmers 7580
 And The Allis-Chalmers 8550
 Allis-Chalmers 4W-305
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Posted By: Redpower1456
Date Posted: 14 Dec 2010 at 4:45am
| I always did like the looks of those AC 4 WD's. I've never seen one in real life. What was the reason for the twin exhaust mufflers? Did the engines have two turbos and separate exhaust manifolds, or what? |
Posted By: Lonn
Date Posted: 14 Dec 2010 at 6:29am
The 8550 isn't a transitional step to the 8000 or 4W series. An 8550 is an 8550 and the 4W-305 is an updated 8550. The 4W-220 is still narrow like the 7580 and is the replacement for the 7580. Why they named it the 8550 I don't know. I think the numbering system went like this......7060 the 70 designated 7000 series of course, the 60 stood for 160 PTO hp. Same with 7080, the 80 stood for 180 PTO hp. The 7580, 7 designated 7000 series and 80 stood for 180 PTO hp the 5 I guess meant 4wd. So the 8550 was so much bigger and passed the 200 PTO hp mark that using the 7000 series designation didn't make sense so it got an 8 to show over 200 PTO hp and the 50 to mark it at 250 PTO hp, the 5 to represent 4WD. Total guesses on my part. The 7580 came out in 76 and the 8550 a year later if I remember my facts correctly and they were built simultaneously until 81 or 82 when the 4W series replaced them.
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AllisChalmers37 wrote:Posted By: Bee
Date Posted: 14 Dec 2010 at 7:15am
Reading the ad- looks like the engine had twin turbos instead of a single large turbo which takes longer to spool up, hence the two mufflers. ------------- Bob, North Carolina 1949 B |
Posted By: Sam T-Ga
Date Posted: 14 Dec 2010 at 9:10am
| 8550 had 2 exhaust manifolds, one on each head, with 2 turbos. 1,2,& 3 cyl in frt turbo & 4,5, 6 in rear turbo, they both pressurized one common intake manifold. The pics in the ad were taken at Lorretta Lynns farm. |
Posted By: Lonn
Date Posted: 14 Dec 2010 at 9:14am
Does anyone know what has come of the Loretta Lynn farm? Who farms it and does she still own it? What brand of equipment is on the farm now? I remember seeing a large picture on the door to the shop at our dealership of Loretta on a 6080. ------------- -- --- .... .- -- -- .- -.. / .-- .- ... / .- / -- ..- .-. -.. . .-. .. -. --. / -.-. .... .. .-.. -.. / .-. .- .--. .. ... - Wink I am a Russian Bot |
Posted By: Daehler
Date Posted: 14 Dec 2010 at 9:22am
| All I can say is that I wish I could have that tractor and disc. |
Posted By: Sam T-Ga
Date Posted: 14 Dec 2010 at 9:23am
| Loretta still owns the farm. She built a new house after Mooney died, said she could not live in the old house without Mooney. I rode through there about 3 yrs ago, looked about the same, saw one Massey tractor working around the horse barn. The fields where we use to plow for demo's are in pastures with some beef cows. |