If by "panel van" you mean the Travelall of the 1960's, I do not believe they had a 4 on the tree. I had many of those series vehicles in the 1/2 ton and 3/4 ton sizes and they had the possibilities of a 3 speed column shift, or a 4 speed floor shift with granny low, and a 5 speed with granny low and a 17% overdrive in 5th. The bell housing was drilled to accept any of these trannys, and the swap was quite easy. All of the trannys were cast iron case and quite H.D. The transfer case was separate from the tranny with a short driveshaft from main tranny to T.C. The trannys were built by Borg Warner, and the transfer case was New Process 205 (gear on gear). They did have an automatic tranny option, and it was a Borg Warner. In 1972 they changed over to the Chrysler 727 auto tranny, it was nearly bullet proof.
Maybe I am crazy, but I loved those trucks, even drove my first one to Alaska when the Alcan Hwy was mostly dirt or mud with rocks the size of loaves of bread hitting the bottom side. There were IH parts dealers along the highway in the Yukon well stocked in wheel bearings and U joints. The road repair stations (dozers and Cat graders) were about 400 miles apart so any section of road might be graded maybe once every month or two in the short summer.
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Today's Featured Article - Grain Threshing in the Early 40's - by Jerry D. Coleman. How many of you can sit there and say that you have plowed with a mule? Well I would say not many, but maybe a few. This story is about the day my Grandfather Brown (true name) decided along with my parents to purchase a new Ford tractor. It wasn't really new except to us. The year was about 1967 and my father found a good used Ford 601 tractor to use on the farm instead of "Bob", our old mule. Now my grandfather had had this mule since the mid 40's and he was getting some age on him. S
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