Re: [ihc] RE: 6 lug to 8 lug

[bearbvd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Greg Hermann)]

At 9:12 AM 5/20/04, Ryan Moore wrote:
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>From: "Greg Hermann" <bearbvd@domain.elided>
>To: "Jim or Ginger Aos" <jaos@domain.elided>; "Jim Grammer"
><jgrammer@domain.elided>; <ihc@domain.elided>
>Sent: Thursday, May 20, 2004 08:48
>Subject: Re: [ihc] RE: 6 lug to 8 lug

I'm not looking in a manual, I'm going on memory, and MIGHT have the
numbers screwed up. I KNOW the big Coleman unit you are talking about. In
fact, I believe that the FA that used the RA15 pumpkin was ALSO a Coleman
thing--as in they converted RA -15's to be steerable drive axles. The inner
knuckle balls on these attach to the housing with a pair of flanges, which
might even be a standard 600# pipe flange set ! This particular axle does
NOT even have inner oil seals, the gear oil runs clear on out into the
knuckles.

Greg (has also worked on, even completely disassembled, a couple of the BIG
Colemans--)

(BTW--you'd REALLY like the Coleman xfer case !!)
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>> Jim--I think the FA57 was the one that used the RA15 pumpkin in a front
>> axle in 1600's and the FA58 was the wider Dana 70F that was used in
>1600's.
>> Believe you are correct that FA52 is the unit for 1300's and 1500's.
>>
>> In any case, the knuckles and spindles were the _SAME_  on all three of
>> them. Hubs, drums, lug pattern, and backing plate assemblies varied.
>>
>> Greg
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>The IH front axles were gone by then, the FA-57 is a large coleman which is
>MUCH bigger than an RA-15.  It's bigger than an RA-30, the RA-30 is "only" a
>9.5 pint axle.  RA-15 is just 6.5 pints.  That coleman makes the RA-30 even
>look small.   I think you need to dig into your manual a little!   In your
>defense, the coleman axles do look *very* similiar to an IH design.
>Although there are some differences I noted in the pictures in this manual.
>
>-Ryan
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