IH 54 R-100 4X4

[OldCracker29]

Found a leak .. Power steering pump was dripping a drop every half hour ..
Being the pump is 50 years time was for a rebuild kit ..

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Got lucky with having all the hard parts still serviceably ...

Pump pulley came in, jumped to with installing it on the motor ..

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Encountered a problem with belt tracking, the pump was sitting on the water pump crooked ...
Didn't have this problem with the cast iron water pump, figured there is something up with it ??

I decided not to try to fix it and use a different mounting system for the power steering pump ..

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The mount bolts to the engine block, do think this will be the easiest cure and net good belt tracking ..

You've had to jump more hurdles than an olympic track star.

 

[Jesse S]

Nearly a month has gone by since I started looking for the speedo driven gear housing seal .. Eek !



Felt like the hunt for Hitler's lost gold train ....



But .. I found one ... Yippee - Ki - Yi - Yaaaaa !!

... ...

 

[Jesse S]

Made a bit of progress ..

Painted the valve covers .. Ordered the three grommets, tried to find them locally but being off of a mid-70's Chevy Van (Oil filler tube) they seemed to have been obsoleted ..
My new best bud 'Google' found them for me ... Lol

In the mist of putting the column together .. Got all the needed machine work done, paint and polish is left to do ...



Man, that was a PITA chore to do ... And a huge expense !
Sure do like how it turn out, I gotta say ... That wood steering wheel was icing on the cake ..

Cruise control, and the button on the tilt lever for controlling the power cowl vent wiring will be run inside the column ..



This just might turn out looking fairly nice .... ??

 

[Jesse S]

Took two to make one ..



Do think it's going to look alright when done .. ?

 

[Black02Silverado]

Coming along nicely.

 

[OldCracker29]

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Took two to make one ..

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Do think it's going to look alright when done .. ?

It's going to look bad ass!

 

[Jesse S]

Dang ... This was a PITA to get to this point ..



Tracking is looking good now ... The custom power steering pump mount did the trick !!

 

[Jesse S]

Sometimes it's the little things that adds to the KOOL factor ...



My new shift knob is soon to have a home .. !

 

[OldCracker29]

Sometimes it's the little things that adds to the KOOL factor ...

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My new shift knob is soon to have a home .. !

 

[Jesse S]

Processing to get the column done ...



Shot satin clear over the flat black ...



Wanted to seal the polished fins on the adapter ...
Thar's my story and I'm sticking to it .. Lol