the wife has been whining about a new car

fiver

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like it says she keeps complaining about wanting a new car.
I don't know what her problem is the one she has never shut's off and runs just fine.
but.
she got me thinking some so I went looking.
Traffic Red


22-K fully decked out.

it may not have a heater or a radio or real doors or even be remotely comfortable to ride in, and the top speed is 55 mph,,
but it would be NEW.
 
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CZ93X62

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Marie more than earned her new Jeep Wrangler Unlimited I got her for Christmas 2017. Dang, it is FUN in the desert. She has let me drive it a couple times, too.
 

Brad

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Mail order bride may well be cheaper.

Up front
 
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freebullet

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I'm lol, because mine would happily drive the crap out of that if it were an auto tranny.
 

Bret4207

At the casting bench in the sky. RIP Bret.
I like it! A turbo diesel SxS that looks like it could actual be useful for something.
 

oscarflytyer

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One day I would like to build a jeep or an old Bronco with a small 4 cyl turbo or super'd diesel. would be awesome. Scout made the big ones with a diesel, but iirc, it wasn't one of the better diesels... And the trick is, have to have a beefy transmission
 

fiver

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they made their earlier smaller scout 80 with the turbo diesel, from about 64 to 67 airc.
it was pretty much their 304 cut in half and around 152 Cu In's.
 

Ian

Notorious member
4BT Cummins. A lot were made for bread trucks and UPS trucks with GM bellhousings, makes it easy to put an NV4500 behind it and have both a compound first gear and overdrive.
 

358156 hp

At large, whereabouts unknown.
Not a problem in the Center of the Universe here, Nebraska. I'm staying with a gas burner in my project Bronco, but a 4BT or 4BTA Cummins would be simple enough.

BTW, the early 80's Scouts had Nissan diesels in them. They were pretty cool little trucks, but I think IH had already decided to phase out the Light Line before the diesel Scouts were even built. Once again, IH was far enough ahead of their time that even the visionarys couldn't understand them. I still want an early 70s 4X4 Travelall, but rust has pretty much eliminated the gene pool there.
 

fiver

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before I moved to the town I had an I-H collection of a dozen trucks, 4 scouts, and 2 travel-all's.
never could round up a Traveler.
all of them, but 1 scout run and was capable of being driven on the highway, and half of the one that didn't run was on the road daily anyway.
I had a 20' camper trailer I stripped out and built shelves in, an a 20'X20' car port full of all kinds of parts, new oil/fuel pumps, new radiator hoses, spare radiators, heads, intakes, alternators, starters, distributors, belts, new brake shoes and cylinders, brake lines, a couple of engine blocks, body parts like doors, fenders and hoods, seats, gas tanks, air conditioning after market add on units, different scout tops.
you know parts.

I even had a rare as heck 2 wheel drive, convertible top, scout II.
and some odd stuff like a 4 barrel 304 intake manifold, it was on my daily driver.
a 79 scout that run the Edelbrock 4 barrel, Isky Cam, and medium length tube headers.
turned like 4800 rpm which is about 700 more than an E engine [which is what it was] and 1-K more than the A engine would do.
the E-engine had a shorter stroke and bigger bore making it more like a ford 302 than the regular long stroke I H engines.

here is a little known fact.
the 345 engine only made 5 more HP than the 304 but it made 100 more ft lbs of torque.
except mine.
the 345 I had in the 74 pickup was doing better.
but it had a lot more air flow with the 392 heads and 4 barrel and longer tube headers I had built for it, that was a pretty stout engine and carried a load like it wasn't even there.


now you got me started.