Columbus..the 1957 IH 4x4..

[Old57]

Originally Posted by mongocanfly

Got breather finished and painted...also got the valve cover painted and decals applied

That looks great, and I'm sure will make some people scratch their heads.

[mongocanfly]

Yep.....

[Advanced Design]

That looks really good! Well done!

Are the folks suspicious yet?

[mongocanfly]

Thanks Doug....as far as I know they don't have a clue...

[regan wilson]

That looks good Mongo. I was going to ask about the parents also.

[mongocanfly]

Thanks Regan .....

[mongocanfly]

After 2 weeks of fighting a uti I finally felt like doing a little sumping....one thing on the list was tail light brackets...I wanted to use the originals but they just wernt worth saving....so I made a set from some 1/8" sheet...hammered the reinforcing dimple in the bend...looks close enough for guvment work...

[Advanced Design]

Nice work Greg. See your brackets and Reaper’s brackets reminds me I need tail lights for mine. Hmm...

[mongocanfly]

Thanks Doug... I'm thinking I'm gonna run my tail light wires thru some stainless tubing just to keep it clean...

[Old57]

This truck is so cool! I'm really looking forward to seeing it all together and out in the sun.

[mongocanfly]

thanks old57.....your truck is sweet...

[mongocanfly]

Since I swapped in the. NV4500 in place of the old IH trans I had to do something with the e-brake/4x4/4low-hi levers....on the IH all this bolted to the side of the trans.....so I fabbed up a bracket to mount all this on...I welded it to the trans crossmember and added a brace off the frame...the nv is a wider trans as well so that moved all the levers over about 2in to the pass side.....so I had to make some modified linkage as well...got it all fabbed up and works great..will pull and pain't it all and thatll be another check mark on the list....

[rgunlock]

Nice work! Bet that was satisfying when it worked the way it was supposed to.

[mongocanfly]

thanks rgun...I kicked around several attempts at mounting the levers...wasted a lot of time over thinking it...finally just said screw it...thisll have to work...and it did..

[Advanced Design]

Problem solved, good work Greg! Pretty satisfying isn’t it...

[mongocanfly]

Thanks Doug....like they say on the A-team..."I love it when a plan comes together"!...even if it didn't start out that way..

[72 tigger]

Nice work on the linkage!

[mongocanfly]

thanks tigger!!!...

[jjzepplin]

SO when you pull it to paint it you will have to pull the whole x member? You have given me some great ideas for linkage with this configuration! Great job. I need to step my game or my tools or both!

[mongocanfly]

Thanks zepp... I've already painted the bracket I welded on the crossmember...i just taped it up and sprayed it...the parts i was referring to pulling and painting was the linkages

[mongocanfly]

Got the Eaton trac-loc in today...gonna go with all new gears as well...probably in 4.56s...

[Old57]

Great job on the levers, that's nice! Jealous of the locker... I need to do that someday in mine.

[mongocanfly]

Thanks 57....
I was planning on doing the locker and gear swap all along but I was gonna wait till I got it drivable before doing it...I wanted to drive it on the 3.73s and g80 and see how it did...the other night I decided I would change fluid in the diffs....when I drained the rear about a half gallon of water and sludge ran out..(thanks P.O.).....I pulled the cover and wow what a mess....so the plans changed....and Eaton has a $50 rebate till 12/31..

[mongocanfly]

Another small side project was brake light and clutch safety switchs... I got a couple of normally closed plunger switches ,,,made some mounting brackets and welded some tabs on the pedal arms...works good ..

[mongocanfly]

Working on the steering column now...I wanted to keep the original steering column and had planned on using a Column Saver on it....when I got ready to buy ,I found they only make 2 sizes with the largest being a 2in...and those were on back order for 2 months...when I disassembled the column I found that of course IH made theirs 2-1/8"...so...I just made one....started with some 2-1/4" alum round stock ..cut the od to match the column dia and bored it for the bearing...fit very good so this should work just fine...