[AT] "discontinued" parts - Re: AT Digest, Vol 149, Issue 17

[Cecil Bearden]

That seems to verify the weight rating.   We bought a 58 GMC from a 
neighbor some years back.  It had a 350 Chevrolet engine installed to 
replace the old 350 v-8 (348 Chevy)  It was what we used o call a light 
duty 1-1/2 ton. Best bet would be to find another axle at a salvage 
yard.   IHC did not change in dimensions over the years until Navistar 
bought them, and then only in the body and cab parts.  I have installed 
rear axles from the 90's into IHC trucks of the 70's.  I probably have a 
front axle from an 1800 Loadstar that would work.  The freight would be 
more than the truck though.
Cecil in OKla



On 7/27/2016 11:36 PM, Ralph Goff wrote:
> On 7/27/2016 7:49 PM, Cecil Bearden wrote:
>> That was the lightest front axle rating of the 1600 Loadstar trucks.
>> Thus the reason one cannot find any of the drums available.  It is a
>> 4700lb axle.  I suppose that would be the rating of a 7.50x20 tire back
>> then.  I just looked up a 7.50x20 bias ply tire from Coker tire, the
>> classic tire supplier, and their rating for that tire was 3530lbs.
>> Nebraska Tire has some 7.00R 20 hwy truck tires, with a load rating of
>> 3750lbs per tire.  That axle weight rating is less than the 3/4 ton
>> pickups of the late 60 and early 70's...
>>
>> Cecil in OKla
> That might explain why the front springs were flat when we got the truck
> in 84. I went right ahead and loaded up
> that 15 foot box with grain and regularly carried 340 bushels to town.
> Grossing close to 30,000 pounds many times.
> The front tires are 8.25x20. I had the front springs re-arched and an
> extra leaf added in 89 so it sits up right high now.
> We don't haul to town anymore and I rarely load it up full even at
> harvest time.
>
> Ralph in Sask.
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