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The real story is he brought the truck to the island when it was new and being a thrifty Yankee he refuses to pay the ferry fare to move it back to the main land. "There will be work for it sooner or later."

Nice truck, but the owner is at least twice as proud of it as he should be IMO. The bell, the seats, and all of the small appliances are missing and it is pretty rusty for a fire truck which means it has been stored outside, the death knell for a fire truck.

We also had a couple of "C" cabs with 10 speed Road Rangers and 3208 Cats at one of the companies where I was assigned as a driver. One was a 1500 gallon tanker that needed all 10 gears and still was slow; the other was a heavy rescue that did OK. Both were tandem axles, a bit unusual in the early 70's. I lost track of the rescue, but the tanker belongs to a collector.

From the 60's right on through the 90's almost every FD of any size had a "C" cab or two in the fleet. They have to hold the record as the most used commercial chassis for fire apparatus. My first was a 67 534 gasser built by Young with a 2 speed rear with the same cab configuration as the one from E-One you have pictured. Young built 4 of the open cab "C" models with the three windshields on them. 2 of the 4 served in Fairfax County where I worked, including the one pictured here. The other took a boat ride to Central America. One was wrecked in MD resulting in a LODD and the other is in a collection in Winchester, VA where it served. This is a 67 model equipped with 534 and a two speed rear.

Remind me to never eat crabs from that pot!

You should end up with three circuits if you do it this way. Use automatic reset circuit breakers for the high amperage legs that supply the actual power to the lights and you can use either regular fuses or circuit breakers for the low amperage circuits that control the relays from the dash switch.

Check this topic out; http://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/36443-en707-water-pumps/ One reply states he has a 707 to part out.

It shouldn't be a big deal to have a machine shop re-create the shaft. If it is so bad that you don't think they can get accurate measurements you can get a shop drawing of the part from the museum for them to use. The pulley should be easy to find, but if not the shop should be able to bore it out and replace the hub.

I believe the University of Wisconsin ended up with the IH archives. It might be worth a shot to see if they have the shop drawings for the frame.

I never thought about it before, but I guess the "H" designation came from being halfway between the "C" and the "N" that the truck was the offspring of. Someone at Ford was pretty clever.

Glad to help. I'd re-think the mag drill and have the fab shop punch the holes for you. They will be more accurate and it will save you a bunch of time and effort for not a lot of money.

Maybe he is looking for that rusty patina all the rat rod builders seem to cherish. Seriously, I wouldn't let $500.00 worth of stuff sit out and rust, much less a piece of irreplaceable history.

Hurricane Camille; one of the deadliest storms to ever strike Virginia. 151 souls died in a massive flood after Camille came ashore in Mississippi with the highest wind speeds ever recorded from a hurricane that made land fall in the US and killed 171 people before the deaths that occurred in VA. Based on the smoke in the background my bet is that is a steam powered crane being used to lift that locomotive.

Cal Little has someone he uses that is very good at cast iron work. He rebuilt a manifold for a friends AB that was in pieces and looked new when he got it back. His failed due to a water jacket corroding and/or freezing. I guess you know that there are different manifolds for the different 707 versions. Make sure you have the correct model when you go looking. One other option would be to explore having the manifold re-cast. Cattail Foundry in PA would be a good option to explore if you want to try that route. Their prices are fair and they do excellent work. One thing that strikes me about this issue is that this seems to be a fairly common problem. This leads me to wonder if the design is, to be kind, less than robust. I can't help but think that a possible design flaw is why the repaired manifolds do not hold up. It just makes sense that if a one piece manifold cracks in normal use than any repair will be placed under a similar stress and is likely to fail since it is already inherently weaker. Maybe a custom made header style manifold would work better?

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Send Loadstar a PM. I think he has already been down this road so he may have some information about where to locate a manifold.

$200.00 at Watts for a reproduction set. That will be cheaper than having an original set restored.

You might try to contact Ron Severino in Candia, NH. He has a restored IH dump (a 210 I believe) along with several other IH's and is a big IH guy. He is a co-owner of Severino Trucking and a very nice guy. http://www.severinotrucking.com/contact-us

Heat is a must for removing old exhaust manifold nuts and studs. You might try double nutting the stud and then turning the bottom nut so you back out the stud which is probably less corroded than the exposed portion. Good luck.

I got mine almost two weeks ago. Kind of makes you wonder why the big difference in delivery times. I think it is one of the best WOT's they have put out in a long time.

When given lemons...At least you have some fire wood now that fall is only a month away. Seriously, what a bummer. I hope all goes well from now on.

I also need to correct my statement about the Tidewater truck. The fire truck body was gone by ythe time Tidewater sent it to Matt to be restored. Apparently the VFD moved it to the next truck. Matt told me that Mack, Ford and a couple of other builders all used the Budd cab at one time.