Re: ?new owner? soon, questions

[Howard R Pletcher <n9ads@domain.elided>]

Your '73 could be a Dana 44 or a Dana 30.  You can tell by looking at the
U-bolts on the passenger side.  On a 44, the inner one goes around part
of the diff casting while on a 30, both U-bolts are around the axle tube
only.

Drums were all that were offered in '73.  Discs came in '74.  You do have
finned brake drums in front which were an improvement over earlier ones.

The transmission ratio cannot be told from the outside that I know of. 
But if it's laying on the floor, just put it in low and turn the input
shaft, counting the turns needed to get one turn of the output shaft and
that's the ratio.  You'll need the bellhousing for a 4 speed in addition
to the transmission to swap.

IH offered the single speed chain-drive transfer case for those that
wanted a Scout to drive to the store in the snow, etc.  It's not great
for off-road, although that's why the deep low T-19 was offered--at least
you would have one relatively low gear for mild off-road use. You're
correct in your thinking--while you're swapping the transmission, you
might as well put in a 2 speed case at the same time.

Howard Pletcher
Howteron Products Scout Parts

On Thu, 15 Apr 1999 20:29:30 -0700 (PDT) Russel DeArman
<russde_93@domain.elided> writes:
>IH all,
>I am picking up 'my' Scout tomorrow (would have been
>driving it back home to San Antonio tonight but the
>bank messed up transfering the money) and I have some
>questions....
>  It's a '73 304 3 spd. I don't know a whole lot (yet)
>about scouts but it looks like the front is a Dana 44,
>'but' it has drum brakes, is this right????
>  It currently has a 3spd in it but the current owner
>is giving me a 4 spd with the truck. The 4 spd has
>'T-19   198' on the upper part in raised letters...is
>this a wide ratio or close ratio trani?????  
>  The transfer case is only one speed. What is that?
>Is is worthless off road? How hard would it be to get
>a Dana 20 and bolt it to the 4 spd and then into the
>truck? Worthwhile swap?
>  All in all the truck is in very good shape...a
>little bondo here and there but the only rust I can
>find (other than surface stuff) is on the passenger
>side body mount just behind the front seat. The
>floorboards and the fenders seem to be rust free.
>  Any and all advice will be greatly appreciated, just
>happy to finally 'be one of the bunch'.
>Russ
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