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Since when has GP been so picky about the SF97 data?
An option to date the truck, IF you believe it has the factory engine, is the casting number at the oil pump drive area of the block.
Sounds like their business went bankrupt and they walked away from a building lease etc. I suggest you or your agent get over there assp before the truck is scrapped.
I tend to prefer original, but even I plan to swap in a much newer GEP 6.5 and a 4L80E in mine. The steering box frame reinforcement and shackle flip make sense as well.
First picture is the hood anti-flyup catch that bolts to the front of the inner lip of the inside of the hood. The second is the spring catch that holds the hood shut.
It’s been my experience that the tax office people derive pleasure from sending you away without what you need, I think they get training by watching puppies getting tortured or something sick like that.
Even as we speak, Navistar is casting 6.5 blocks for AM General for HMMWV engines so looks like the IH foundry has always been looking for side hustles. Makes sense, gotta pour steel around the clock, not like you heat up a blast furnace every morning.
I would disconnect and tape up the burnt cables and try to start on battery power alone. M1083A1s are not something I would part out just because of some burned wires. I think that may have happened at the gravel pit by someone that tried to slave start the truck that had no clue what he was...
Looks like a doorbell transformer. Those put out 24 volts, but it’s AC. Can’t use it to charge batteries. I personally would pitch it and install a new maintaner.
I am pretty sure all civilian 3/4 ton trucks and the M880 series all had Dana 60 rear axles. What I found out the hard way is that the wheel ends are different between 1976 and 1977.