Yea, I hear you on parts that are unknown. Like on my bed lift. I never found any manufacture stamps or anything like that. There are #s on the pump and on the motor, which would indicate they were built to be on a lift gate. The hydraulic ram, is a generic hydraulic ram meant as a service replacement part. Though talks with the guys at Piece Arrow, we were able to determine that the scissor, and hinges are likely theirs but they have no record of ever using those part # for motor, pump and ram. I'll probably never know if those are original parts or not. So I guess I'm in better shape than your plow, but I did spend quite a bit of time trying to figure it all out. If you haven't already maybe you should post pictures of your plow to a plow site, someone might recognize it.
I tried that twice.
no bites.
bunch of pretentious bitches, I tell ya
(lol)
To be fair a lot of them either are ride or die im using this 1980s plow perfectly restored till I die or they react in digust at anything made out of metal let alone old, then especially in their vehicles. with 15 joysticks , a spreader, and alll that money they would have just been better off with having a a larger truck than all the work they put into rangers, old blazers, broncos , new small things, etc... to make them stout.
So what I Do know:
I have one of these but without cylinders, Missing a spring I think, may need a new pivot, would need a cutting edge/top piece to curl snow
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My dad gave me a random ass western and its like this, I presume western anyway. but the plow
may be on the smaller size. I forget. if it turns out its smaller than i would want, I have the otpion to sell/trade and if i did that, I may be wise to source myers EZ mount or classic(I think)
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best I can tell, this is
for a square, and its one of those things if I needed to id rather start with something I have vs etc. these older plows often werent that different either. For example, the plow MAY be close to fitting the coupling lugs on my truck if so, its minimal fab to make it something to hold it.
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The coupling lugs my gpa made are a little lack of robust on the truck atm, but it mostly wasnt good because I had a pin break and the plow itself wedged up and poked my headlight bezel to cause a small dent but it did bend the plow(prev post) and the ear on the truck. if the spacing needed changing to hook up a western, for ex, then it would be ez-pz
I also know that I am going to use my hydraulics as i have for now unless it doesnt work or it is not enough for anglers(should be id think) and if it needs replacement ever, muncie gets my business for the clutch pump for SBC so i wouldnt need the dwindling pumps that came on the myers front hookup like the pic in this thread(its gone)
and for fun,
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I wonder what that bad boy went in and did before :O
