Posted by Teakettle on July 03, 2012 at 16:25:46 from (76.19.137.65):
Sorry for all the recent questions about 454s but I have a lot more experience with Fords and old Farmalls...
Anyway, my "new" 454 is missing the stabilizer mounts that are cast iron and bolt into holes under the axle; instead the previous owner put on two Ford-style angle-iron stabilizer brackets with U-bolts over the axle, and the geometry seems wrong. I was out hogging for much of the day yesterday and it was a major pain getting standard stabilizers lined up with the ends of the lift arms, and when I finished mowing I noticed that one of the bars had a significant bend in it. I can get the missing mounts used from the usual tractor breakers but before I spend the money I want to ask those of you who have the correct mounts, what do you use for stabilizers? The original IH ones are hard to chase down but I'm not sure what else will fit into the correct mounts -- cheap flat bars, generic made-in-India adjustable tube-style ones, or what? Thanks.
BTW, I love rough cutting with this thing. It chews up everything, even on hills, with no drama. Still, I can't figure out when one would use any of the gears above high-2 -- I tried driving down a paved road in high-2 and that was about as fast as I'd like to go (I can't imagine using high-4, which is twice as fast, except maybe on something like an airport runway).
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