Columbus..the 1957 IH 4x4..

[jjzepplin]

Very Nice!

[mongocanfly]

thanks zepp.....

[mongocanfly]

while putting the heater assembly back together I found this date on the heater core...possibly the first time anyone has laid eyes on it in the last 60yrs...thought that was interesting....

[mongocanfly]

this kinda goes along with my Columbus build. .I found a 1959 IH toy truck...made by the true scale company....I'm gonna take it apart and paint it to match Columbus. ..its as close as I could come to finding a 57 IH...the 59 has the different grill and 4 headlights...a 57-58 has single headlights...

[mongocanfly]

made a little progress as of late....been getting some body work done on the fenders ...bout got them good enough...
also made a late nite run over to my buddys shop and brought the truck back to my shop so I could get the frame shortened. ..and got it back to my buddys shop the same night..
.here's a few pics of the progress...
here I have it marked for cutting....4" in the rear and 12" from the middle....

[Advanced Design]

Good progress! Dad isn't suspicious?

[mongocanfly]

haha...I hope not...mom and dad couldn't figure out why they couldn't get in my shop the other day..mom did ask if i had something in there that i didnt want them to see...i kinda brushed it off....they have a key to the back door and I had the door blocked so it wouldn't open....time will tell....the more I have to do at my shop the harder the secret will be to keep...

[mongocanfly]

played around with my new shrinker/stretcher today...both my running boards were broke where they attach to the fenders so im making a whole new end for them..i ran outta time and didn't get finished but its getting close..im replacing the whole end of both steps..they are stress cracked pretty bad... its amazing how these shrinker/strechers work....

[jjzepplin]

Oh my! At this rate, I will never be able to snatch the pebble from your hand Master.

[mongocanfly]

I think you can snatch it zepp....its a pretty big pebble...haha

[mongocanfly]

got the bed, doors, one rear fender, and the seat frame all sandblasted yesterday....got it all in epoxy primer today....

[mongocanfly]

even had time to lay down some lizardskin on the underside of the bed and inside the doors....that stuff sprays and covers pretty good.

[mongocanfly]

got tired of sanding so i started working on getting my 3/4t donor axles out from under the ol burb....lots easier to pull the body than I thought...I saved the hood, fenders and doors so far...theyre ugly but in good shape...i wouldn't take a gold nickle for my 2 post lift..really makes life easier....updated axles are one of the many upgrades I'm making to Columbus. ...2 hours and it went from a full body to this stripped down pic and then to the body off the burb frame...

[Advanced Design]

Columbus is going to have some serious axles! That was a fast body removal...wow. Biggest regret on my two post lift is I didn’t get it 10 years sooner than I did. They are sure handy.

[mongocanfly]

haha...yep...but the burb doesnt have the heavy axles...corp 10 bolt front and 14 bolt SF rear.....believe it or not Columbus actually is a 3/4t from the getgo...but axle parts are as rare as hens teeth...brake parts are near nonexistent. ..it has a (big 6) bolt pattern wheel (6 on 7 1/4 bc)..the rims are 17.5 dia.....tires and wheels are nonexistent as well....that with the closed knuckle and drum brakes and tractor style ball and socket steering components and lack of power steering made the axle swap descision an easy one....got to make it safe and easy for Dad to drive....
yeah the 2 post is a back saver. ...i use it for everything...and like you Doug, I wish I had it years ago...

[mongocanfly]

also took a little time today to work on the cab corner patch....gonna have to make it from several pieces...got it kinda held together with magnets to see what I gotta do....gotta check it to see how close to the shape of the truck it is...

[mongocanfly]

well, I spent this afternoon working on fabbing my cab corner patch...I was really dreading this because of all the different radiuses, bends and curves..it turned out better than I thought it would and although its not a perfect match I think itll be ok...got it ready to weld in,sprayed down the backside with weld thru primer...I also sandblasted the cavity behind the patch and sprayed it good with primer as well...ive got a can of rust encapsulater im gonna spray in there before I weld it up...

[67ChevyRedneck]

Missed a bunch of updates!

Looking good!

Even though they're meaningless, I geeked out over all the paint marks and stampings I found on my 65 Mustang too. I found A LOT of them. Unfortunately, I did paint over pretty much all of them, rust free is more important to me than a paint mark. I did take pics of everything I found though

My C10 was such a spray painted up mixed bag of parts when I got it 22 years ago, I found jack squat of anything "original" EXCEPT for the model number in chalk in huge numbers on the rear frame cross member. It was almost 10+ years before I even knew it was there!

[mongocanfly]

thanks 67....all I'm getting done right now is bodywork and sanding, sanding, and more sanding....there were still grease pencil assembly marks on a couple places on the truck that I found

[Scott2]

Mongo - have you run across this guy while looking for parts: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Coonr...59964014102231

He’s about an hour away from me here in Colorado. My friend and I went to Fairplay, CO one day last month to look at a truck and spotted this place on our way. We stopped and walked thru the yard and there are tons of parts, semi trailers squirreled away that are packed, and everywhere you look there more piles and sheds. Almost made me want an IH! Might be worth checking if you need any parts.

[mongocanfly]

thanks Scott. ..I've heard of coonrod on a IH forum I'm on...next time i go elk hunting in Co. ill stop in and visit him....they have a IH rendevous in kremmling co in july I'd like to go to but probably won't make it...

[Advanced Design]

Nice job on that corner! Lotta complex shape in that one for sure.

[mongocanfly]

thanks Doug...hopefully when I get this welded in thatll be the last of the body welding ive got on this truck...I do have a few firewall holes to weld up and two on the dash...but that's all I know of right now....

[72 tigger]

Nice job on the corner!

[mongocanfly]

thanks tigger