[AT] Cub

[Spencer Yost]

I had never heard anything about continental building Cub engines and had never seen anything but IH stamps on the castings as someone else mentioned.   But I find the urban legend intriguing.  At first glance it presents somewhat like a few of the various incarnations of Continental’s N-62 and sounds like one too.  So considering those two things and Jim’s indication that the power unit version  replaced a continental I can see where the story started.


Spencer

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> On Jun 30, 2020, at 6:40 PM, Jim Becker <mr.jebecker at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Confirmed.  The Cub engine was (or was eventually named) the C-60.  It is purely an IH engine.  Prior to the availability of that engine, IH used a Continental engine for applications of that approximate size.  It was the Continental IY-69.  After the Cub engine was available, it was used in places the IY-69 had been.  Other than both being 4 cylinder flatheads of similar size, the two engines have almost nothing in common.
> 
> Jim Becker
> 
> -----Original Message----- From: John Hall
> Sent: Tuesday, June 30, 2020 3:25 PM
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> Subject: Re: [AT] Cub
> 
> IH used some very similar flathead Continentals on balers and probably
> combines. To the best of my knowledge the Cub engine was an IH design,
> at least I never heard my dad say otherwise---nor did I ever stumble
> across anything at the dealership indicating . Would be interested as
> well to know if IH had any outside input on designing and building it.
> 
> John Hall
> 
> 
>> On 6/30/2020 2:35 PM, Greg Hass wrote:
>> A little off the subject but still about Cubs.  A few years ago I bought a Cub power unit from a neighbor that had been on a combine.  He let on that all was fine when they junked the combine. A few months later, he let on that something had gone wrong with a rod bearing and that they had tried to fix it with a piece of tin. Well, knowing this neighbor there is a 99 per cent chance that the crank is ruined, so I lost interest in trying to get it going. A few days ago as part of another deal a local machinery jockey saw it and I included it in the deal; he will part it out for some of the gears he said he can sell. The point of this post is I always thought the the Cub engine was IH built but he claims it is a Continental engine. Can anyone on the list give me the straight scope on the Cub engine.
>>          Greg Hass
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