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On 4/24/2024 at 5:02 AM, mrsmackpaul said:

What's the current state of affairs with the new ride

Any luck yet ??

 

Paul

I took the carburetor off and cleaned it as best I could, it will run but only with the choke mostly closed, the next thing I'm going to check is the vacuum in the distributor. It acts like it has a vacuum leak but I couldn't find any, and that's the only thing I haven't checked yet.

I'm going out there and try to see what I can see on the carburetor but I'm waiting for it to warm up a little. We had frost here this morning and it's only up to the lower 50's now. I'm going to try to take that pressure regulator off and look at it. I won't know what I'm looking at, but I'll look.

The gas had to go through 3 filters before it got that far but that doesn't mean much, it was still running on that crappy gas when it was running. It has the in-line filter, a little canister type filter, then the electric fuel pump has a filter in it too.

21 hours ago, Joey Mack said:

$3.35/ gal.  87 octane here..  it goes up and down often. .10 - .15 cents at a time...  

I put $23 worth of non ethanol in my 5 gallon can for this truck sitting in the driveway that doesn't run.

18 hours ago, Freightrain said:

OD, just take the sender and touch to your frame and then attach existing wire.  Move the arm to full and empty and see if gauge reads correctly.  Most gauges respond slowly so it may take a few seconds to see gauge move.

 

There are a few variants of sending units that have different resistance to make gauge respond correctly.  90 ohm, 270 ohm, etc.

I got a gas gauge when I got the sending unit, but it didn't get a bracket because it was almost as much as the gauge. You'd think it would come with a bracket but it didn't. I figured I'd pick up a "cheap"- if there's any such thing anymore- oil pressure or temp. gauge at the parts store for it and use the bracket. The original gauge in the truck didn't budge. But I still have my stick.

18 hours ago, mowerman said:

Tom, I’m sure pretty sure you posted a picture of it a few years ago.  Tom, I’m sure pretty sure you posted a picture of it a few years ago. I think I only rode in. One around 35 years ago going to lunch with another Driver. It’s the only one.Ive even been inside one… bob

I've posted the first truck I drove for H.H. Moore Jr. before, it was a '74 Transtar too, red with white stripes, had a VT 903 in it with a 13 speed direct transmission. I don't have a single picture of that first one, it was white and had a gray stripe and a maroon stripe around the cab.

13 hours ago, mechohaulic said:

sadly it's only going to get worse with the thousands of border crossers. most having idea "we have more rights then you AMERICANS .  politicians need our votes they told us to come over  to this country.

That's another thing we used to think about when we were moving. We moved from Gladys, Va. to Spout Spring, Va.

Google says it's 33 miles. And after we moved enough stuff here to start staying here we'd stay here during the week and move on weekends. And every time we'd go over to Gladys we'd say "hope no squatters moved in during the week".

Maybe I should hold my phone down close to the timing marks and I'll be able to read them...

Got a pretty good picture of the distributor.

The very first truck I drove when I started my driving career was a '74 Transtar. Had a 290 Cummins and a 13 speed.

On 4/19/2024 at 4:01 PM, mike69mackman said:

Don’t talk to me about squatters. I got squatting in laws in my daughters home who wont leave. Been 4 years and finally getting a court date to kick them out.

That reminds me of the time- wait, did I tell this story before?..stop me if I did-

I went down to see my Mom in Cumberland one time and she wanted me to ride up to her parents old home with her. They had both passed away years earlier but she was renting their old home to a couple, a pair of deadbeats apparently because they hadn't paid any rent for months. Mom even had the power shut off to the house to try to get rid of them, but then they complained to somebody and they told Ma "you can't do that", and she had to have the electricity turned back on. Even though they hadn't paid for anything.

My mother was elderly then, maybe in her 60s, maybe 70s, I don't remember now, it was a while back. So I was no spring chicken myself. And when we got there this body builder looking guy probably in his 20s came out of the front door with a pit bull on a leash. His skank girlfriend was right inside the front door holding another pit bull. I didn't know if he was planning to unleash the beast, then the skank would have released her hound, and we would have been killed right there in the yard. Or maybe Ma was expecting me to whip his ass.

But while all this was running through my mind and Mom was arguing with the deadbeat, my uncle David, my mother's brother pulled up. He lived just up the hill, a couple of hundred yards away. He was a magistrate in Cumberland County, and he's always been my favorite uncle but when he got out of his vehicle that day I had never been so glad to see him. He was obviously packing some serious heat, right there on his side for all to see. I don't even remember if he said anything, but the smart ass non-rent paying punk didn't have anything else to say either, and went back inside and closed the door.

Ma finally got rid of their sorry good for nothing asses but it took a long time, she had to take them to court to get rid of them, even after they hadn't paid rent since who knows when.

One of the main reasons we weren't interested in renting our place in Gladys, it probably would have been destroyed and no rent paid, so we just wanted to sell it and be done with it.

10 hours ago, Geoff Weeks said:

That is fine, the offer is open to anyone who can use it. I have no use for it (anymore) and hate to see it go to scrap or just sit in my storage trailer.

 It does seam (Delco MT-30) to be a orphan, and the SAE-2 mount is not being made or at least not found on newer starters, so if you have something with one, used may be your only choice.

 SAE-3 and SAE-1 starters are commonplace and you can buy new.

Well let me know before you throw it away, I'll look at mine when I take it off and if it's the same starter I'll pay to have it shipped. Most of the ones I looked at on the old International site were around $300. I put a starter on the pickup last year and was astonished at the price, about 3 times what I was expecting it to be.

2 hours ago, Geoff Weeks said:

So it does look like it has the Holley dist.

 Let me know if you want the starter (free), I could try and box it up but last time I looked for a guy it was real expensive to ship, but if someone was passing through...

I sure appreciate your very kind offer, that's really nice of you. But I think I'll just get my starter rebuilt at the place in Roanoke and see how it goes. At least for now.

My fuel tank strap rubber came late this afternoon, too late for me to start working on anything anyway. I also ordered a new sending unit when I ordered the rubber. I thought one would have came with the tank but it didn't, it came with nothing- no fittings, no plugs, no nuthin'. I didn't want to use the old one because it still had black gunk on it that carburetor cleaner wouldn't take off.

So since I got a new sending unit I figured I'd just get a fuel gauge too. Thought I just had to hook a wire to the sending unit and run it to the gauge, but nothing is ever simple. I got to step 2 on the instructions and said "WTF?"

I have a multimeter that somebody gave me a few years ago, but I don't even know how to use it.

But no worries, I still have a stick in the side box that I can check the gas with. Even I can run the measuring stick.

4 hours ago, 1958 F.W.D. said:

What kind of a dumbass would do that?

I...uh...Yeah, that's what I was wondering!

You could check with Brayden Tucker at Tucker Equipment in Lisbon, Ohio.

He had a couple of cabovers that he was getting ready to sell, one was a Ford CL 9000. It was a single axle with no sleeper I think. He's a man I would have no problem buying a used vehicle from too, he's a good honest man.

Don't know if he still has this one, these are just street view screenshots.

The street view camera even caught Underdog there .

He had a 9670 IH at Winchester the year before last that he was going to sell, but it's probably sold by now.

And of course, after we bought this International that's sitting in the driveway I saw the truck we really needed on his Dying Breed Diesel page. Y'all might laugh, it was a single axle Volvo with a flat top sleeper. It would have been perfect for us to cruise to truck shows in, and it had plenty of room for the dogs to ride. But that's pretty much how it always works.

20 hours ago, Mark T said:

Carb kits are on Ebay.  If that's a two barrel it's likely a 852FFG.    I have an old Chiltons book Iv'e been looking at here.  That truck reminds me so much of my uncle's dump truck when I was little.  Hit a soft spot or something.

Yep, that's what it is. Fuzzy Buzzard sent me a lot of useful info. about it.

19 hours ago, tjc transport said:

for ;points elimination, you really can not beat the pertronix ignitor. uses the factory distributor, cap, and rotor. all you need to do is remove the points, put the pickup in their place, slip the magnet over the distributor shaft under the rotor, and run the two wires out to the coil.

after install i usually open the plug gap up a little, and advance timing around 4-5 degrees. 

Now this is something that I would definitely be interested in. As soon as I can positively ID what kind of distributor is in it I'll try to get one. They probably have one for everything but a 401 IH.

7 hours ago, 1958 F.W.D. said:

Tommy- for the alternator/generator and the starter, if you need anything and cannot find it and want to get what you have rebuilt, I highly recommend Vineland Auto Electric in Vineland New Jersey. They are HIGHLY regarded in the antique firetruck world for electrical components and systems. 

Thank you, I checked with oldInternationaltrucks.com and they have starters for about every International engine there is- except the 401. Same for carburetor kits, I didn't see one listed for the 401 engine. I've rebuilt a starter or two myself, and generators too. Pretty easy actually, but you still need the parts, like the brushes, bushings, etc. But when it comes to carburetors- I'm afraid to touch 'em.

 There's a place in Roanoke that I got a positive ground alternator from for a B53S Mack I used to have. I called them and asked if they could rebuild the starter and they said "absolutely". So I'll probably just take it off one day and take it up there. I don't remember how much they charged for that alternator, but I remember that it was much cheaper than I was expecting it to be.

There was nothing wrong with the alternator until someone was putting new batteries in the truck and forgot that it was positive ground. I- I mean they- touched the cables to the wrong post for just a second, and that was all it took. Fried.

1 hour ago, tjc transport said:

for ;points elimination, you really can not beat the pertronix ignitor. uses the factory distributor, cap, and rotor. all you need to do is remove the points, put the pickup in their place, slip the magnet over the distributor shaft under the rotor, and run the two wires out to the coil.

after install i usually open the plug gap up a little, and advance timing around 4-5 degrees. 

I put some of that aluminum brightener on a rag and tried to clean off the timing marks. Sprayed it with carburetor cleaner too, and rubbed it with fine sandpaper. I still can't read any marks on it. 

Latest update, I'm just waiting for tank rubber. Meanwhile I took the vent out of the old tank and shook it. Nothing happened. Then I tried to blow through it. Nothing happened. I wasn't even sure if anything was supposed to happen, because I'm not even sure how they work. But I cut the bottom off of an aluminum can and put the vent in it and sprayed carburetor cleaner in it until it was covered. Now when I shake it it rattles, because it has like a check ball in it that was stuck. And I can blow through it easily now, so that's good. 

And I tried to take a cab marker light off because it wasn't working but the screw is stripped in the screwdriver slot and won't budge, and that's bad. But at least the light started working, so that's good. If I can get them off I'll see if I can find LED lights the same size and replace them all.

And I should probably replace the generator that's on it with an alternator.  

And I will have to find a starter soon, because the Bendix doesn't engage about half the time, so you just have to keep trying until it does.