Been a while...IH sale, new ride, plea for help.

[Joel Furtek <jf7e@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hey all,
Hope this finds you all well.  I've been without home internet for a 
week or two now, and only dial-up at work, so I'm going through some 
withdrawals.  :-)

On the IH front, it looks like I've sold my '60 B140 to a good home 
with a lister.  I'm too busy with life to give this truck what its 
due, and I won't preside over its slow decay.  I will now move on to 
finding new homes for the crew cab and my B184.  I'm of course sad to 
see such a truck as this go, as I have been with all my IHs, but it's 
all part of the continuing development of my understanding of myself, 
what I want, need, and can do.  I've even considered selling the 
800B, but it would be hard to get my money back from it, and I'm not 
prepared yet to take a loss.

Some of this has come about as I get to know my daily driver well, a 
new-to-me sheriff-brown 1993 Crown Vic Police Interceptor, 128k miles 
and a $590 price tag.  Runs and drives sweetly, has about the right 
amount of luxury for a guy like me, and requires (allows?) little 
investment of my time or energy to do its job.  I'll add a push bar 
and a hitch, and already upgraded the stereo, but I won't be doing 
any major mods or 'restoring' it.

Anyway, if you've read this far with such limited IH content, perhaps 
you can help me out!  At another surplus auction, I picked up a 
Garland electric stove/range, a four-burner + griddle model over a 
convection oven.  It retails between 3 and 5 thousand bucks, but I 
picked it up for $35.  In order to get it in my home, I need to 
remove the Century 1/3HP electric motor mounted on the back; the 
shaft runs into the oven and to a 8-9" dia. tab-lock squirrel fan. 
The fan appears to be held on with two allen bolts, the kind that has 
no head and sinks down into the fitting, nothing exposed.  The two 
allen fasteners must lock the fan into the shaft, and i need to 
detach the fan to pull the motor out.  I _cannot_ get those two allen 
fasteners loose, after liberal use of PBBlaster, some heat and cool 
cycles with a MAPP torch, and plenty of leverage.  I can't get at the 
fasteners head on, so I can't use a screw-out (I even tried a 
right-angle adapter for my drill, but there's not enough clearance, 
and a flexible driver shaft gets torqued into a pretzel before 
budging the fastener).  I just can't believe how tightly these things 
would have to be attached.  Is there such a thing as a keyed locking 
allen, like a safety torx?  ANY idea will be welcome, the next step 
is to get a very long sawzall blade and try to cut the driveshaft, 
which will of course require an all new motor or at least a good 
rebuild.
So, if you know fasteners, or electric motors, or fancy kitchen 
appliances, I'm at your mercy.

Phew, thanks all for reading!  Have a great day!
Best,
Joel

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