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

[Cecil Bearden]

The high price of scrap metal took a bunch of the old IHC trucks to the 
scrap smelters.   When scrap was at its highest , I was trying to buy a 
Gehl swather to use the header off of.  It was at a former Gehl Owatonna 
Dealer.   I had bought the cab glass out of it a month earlier.  The guy 
would not even think of selling the entire swather.  It had a broken 
crank on the engine.   I offered $1000 and he told me it was worth $2500 
in parts.   He had a weird accident, a car ran over him when he went to 
the mailbox.  About 3 months later I talked to his widow about the 
swather.  She told me that about a month before he died a scrapper came 
by and bought a semi load of scrap and then offered him $500 for that 
swather and he sold it.......    I owed the guy $50 for some parts off 
of some other swathers, so I had my wife take his widow the payment.  I 
just chalked it up to Karma.....

I am in the same boat with my Owatonna swather.  I need a complete 
header.  The one I have is rusted out in the main support beam. It will 
not cut level and is too far gone to repair.   The former owner covered 
it up with sheet metal and then sold it to me as being field ready.  The 
guy was a friend of mine.  I say was.

Cecil in OKla



On 7/28/2016 8:08 AM, Ralph Goff wrote:
> On 7/28/2016 6:24 AM, Cecil Bearden wrote:
>> 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
> Yes, too far away  Cecil. There should be numerous old Loadstars parked
> on farms here if I
> would just get busy and start searching. Those trucks were everywhere
> not so many years ago.
> Very popular at the time. I've seen a few at auctions. Had an offer of a
> complete truck with a
> damaged cab out in Alberta but again, the cost of transportation stopped
> me.
>
> Ralph in Sask.
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