Title: OC3 with IXA5 transplant. Need distributer!
Post by: jamescapecod on April 25, 2005, 12:54:43 AM
Post by: jamescapecod on April 25, 2005, 12:54:43 AM
I recently purchased an OC3 that has been sitting in a garage for 20 years. The previous owner blew up the Hercules IXB3 in 1983. He obtained a remaned short block & upon getting it installed realized it was incorrect. (it is an IXA5) The mag and governor would not mount. So there the old Oliver sat til last month when it found a new home. I am interested in keeping the Hercules IXA5 and running a distributer instead of the magneto. I can run a belt drive governor if I have to. If anyone has a distributer for this engine to sell or know where I can find one please contact me.
Also, I am new to Olivers so if anyone has any suggestions or has had a similar dilemma let me know what you think.
Also, I am new to Olivers so if anyone has any suggestions or has had a similar dilemma let me know what you think.
Title: IXB5 engine distributor
Post by: jdemaris on April 25, 2005, 02:55:56 AM
Post by: jdemaris on April 25, 2005, 02:55:56 AM
I know someone that had the entire setup, brand new. I don't know if he wants to sell it, but I'll ask. He has a couple of brand new IXB5 power units - never run, new old stock. I was looking at one today. It has a coventional mag and governor on it, just like the IXB3 engine - but in addition has a tachometer drive on the front cover. The power unit came with an additional package that contains enough parts to remove the existing mag and governor, and has a new governor the goes on - with a longer shaft that creates a new tach drive where the magneto is supposed to be. And then, a battery distributor is put into the hole where the tach drive is now. Sound complicated? Yeah, it is. But, the moral of this story is - the engine is complete as it is right now if he uses it with the mag. So, he has the extra - brand new distributor for the IXB5 engine as long as your's has the tach drive.
Title:
Post by: Blake Malkamaki on April 25, 2005, 03:06:13 AM
Post by: Blake Malkamaki on April 25, 2005, 03:06:13 AM
Leader tractors made in Chagrin Falls (Auburn Twp), Ohio used the IXB5 engine. You may be able to find someone with some extra parts from a Leader, or someone with a parts tractor. Good luck.
Blake
Blake
Title: IXB5 in a OC3
Post by: Dave Proehl on November 17, 2006, 04:17:33 AM
Post by: Dave Proehl on November 17, 2006, 04:17:33 AM
Just searching through old forums and found this one on adding a distributer to a IXB5 engine. I have a IBERX (military genset herc IXB5) that I'm installing into a OC3, the problem involved with this is there are to many things on the left side of the engine. The addition of the starter in the OC3 position (high) makes it so there is no room for the mag. Adding a distributer at the tach drive would solve this. Now for the tach drive distributer, here might a guy find one of these? Thanks in advance for any and all help you gave give