From: Nigel Hay MILWEB (nigel@milweb.net)
Date: Tue Jan 31 2006 - 00:38:52 PST
I think the Israeli's ported the International engines, a friend had one and
it was much faster than a non IDF one.
My assumption is that the bell housings on the IHC and the generic White are
different. Everything south of the clutch is the same.
NIGEL HAY
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-----Original Message-----
From: Military Vehicles Mailing List [mailto:mil-veh@mil-veh.org]On Behalf
Of Michael Gillman
Sent: 30 January 2006 19:35
To: Military Vehicles Mailing List
Subject: [MV] Halftrack re-engine projects
Hello,
Seeing as there are several Halftrack and Scout car owners out there, I
thought I’d mention a couple of projects I’m currently involved with:
1: Ex-Israeli International HT: replacing original engine with a 5.9l
Cummins ‘B’ diesel, using the original gearbox. This is being done partly to
improve reliability and starting in cold and damp weather, but also as an
engineering challenge.
2: ‘Modified’ International HT: installing NOS White engine and ‘box into a
heavily butchered ‘bitsa’. It should look and sound ok from outside but don’
t look too closely at the rear bodywork, which is mostly bolted mild steel
plate.
We’ve discovered something very interesting between these 2 set-ups and I
wonder whether anyone else would like to comment: the flywheel housings are
different sizes.
The ex-Israeli one had an SAE 2 housing on both the engine and ‘box, while
the NOS White units are both SAE 3 (ie. smaller). The engines and ‘boxes
appear similar in all other respects. The size difference was a surprise
when we’d carefully lined up the Cummins parts based on measurements taken
from the White units. Moral: never make assumptions.
We know that the Israelis upgraded many of their HT’s with Detroit diesels
and Allison auto ‘boxes, so our theory is that they may have upgraded the
housings on all petrol engines and ‘boxes in anticipation of this
dieselisation programme.
The other theory is that White and International engines and ‘boxes have
different sized flywheel housings as standard.
Does anyone have any experience of working on Israeli HT’s or of re-engining
HT’s?
Regards to all – Mike Gillman
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