I love the old binder trucks .my grandpa bought a new 1957 ihc A160 golden anniversary 2 ton 4x4 with the 6 cyl . for his oil testing company . Used it for a lot of years.we put a wench bed on it 15 years ago. Just put 6 new 900.20 nylon mud grips on it. Still has the same engine to this day runs strong. Were going on 4 generations of my family rideing in this truck. My boy is 6 and thinks it's the best thing ever
Jonathan I enjoy your videos. Drove a Scout with a souped up 392,4 speed for years. Also had a 73 Travelall. Those engines have hydraulic lifters. The Scout originally had a 196 4 cylinder engine. Thanks for saving the oldies !
Ahh, my lovely Cornbinders! As an ardent observer of your channel, I'm constantly perplexed that you've no feelings or affections for IHC gas engines? A retired DIESEL tech x3, I love the light through heavy diesels. I maintained a fleet of 27 school busses for 18 years, singlehandedly for the most part. Couldn't have done it with any other hood ornament. I drive an IHC 7.3, in a 96 Ford F250 at 263K on miles and still stroking. Appreciate your efforts to preserve the classics!
I love International Harvesters. There was a dealership near my house as a child. I remember wondering about the tractors and such we used to have in Los Angeles County.
The younger boys who work and hang around have no idea what the value is worth for the teaching you are doing for them. I had a opportunity thru the years to work around people like you. I learned so much. The younger generation would not at all be interested in watching you. It is interesting for some of us to be able to watch and predict what is coming next. Thank you for taking the time to video all this adventures.
When I was a lad just starting out I ran into a lot of those old GM point sets, I haven't seen any for probably 40 years BUT I still have the flexible allen wrench I used to adjust the dwell on those
My uncle was a locksmith and he took key blanks, put em in the lock, twisted the key back and forth with pliers and filed where there were marks with a little round file, kept it up untill the key worked. Pretty amazing to a kid like me way back in the day.
It can be picked open and rekeyed also. Back in the late 70's I took the National Institute of Locksmithing course when I left the auto repair trade and went into building maintenance. Too bad I live in Minnesota as I still have my rekey kit's.
He mainly did that for people who lost their keys. He also had big rings of keys which he could try until one worked to open doors where the keys were locked inside, or he would pick the lock instead. He had jimmy tools too, but didn't like using them. This was in the 1970's, things are probably much different now.
Imagine in 15-20 years, someone like Jonathan trying to start one of todays modern computer driven engines after sittin' that long... Lol... Nope. Another great start to another great save. That is one cool truck.
Nah you aren't cheap you just know the value of a dollar and dont like to waste money. Hey I know you got a wife and kids to take care of so you spend money in the right place. Thanks for making the videos
Sounds great ! I really like what you do buddy ! I have to say there isn't many people like you in this day in time you and your family are great people
Hey Man, I finally got to set down and rest a bit and watched your video on this cool ol' truck. You sure do have a Lucky Streak go'in with them starting fairly easy. This is gonna be a Good truck for someone to fix up.
I love your techniques for getting these old girls started. I am looking to start saving oldies in my area since I have the land and time to do it now. Looking forward to more videos!
Yeah ,, after seeing you're knowledge of engines in all your videos I believe it's a given you have checked all out before starting . Unfortunately there is always somebody who assumes otherwise cause they didn't see it . Carry on , it's a another great video the rest of us enjoy , thumbs up !!!!
love your videos man . Started following your son to . Great family with lots of knowledge . Your rat rod international would look cool painted as a A 1 Towing Shop truck .. Thanks for your videos
We had a '57 2 ton International 2 speed rear end. 266 engine. Originally had a straight 6. When we got it, the fan had a bunch of shims to take up the space to the rad. I learned to drive that thing at a young age. Our 266 was timed off of #8 instead of #1. Check into that when you're setting the timing. As for your missing door window, check inside the door. That's where my dad found both of ours.
2 years ago i knew very little about internationals. tractors mostly. then i seen a pickup for sale. kb2. it was not used as a truck and condition is amazing. i cannot believe i own it. i did pay up for it. not cheap to me.5k. i now have a kb6 on a ton frame which it is it. i love that truck and i know i should not but i do. i have now bought 4 more internationals. i took one to mt shata from kansas 3 months ago. they are the best built trucks i have ever owned. yours are new compared to my year models.lol. thanks for video fun watch
Love watching your stuff... it's so cool seeing old cars and trucks fire up. the technology was so simple if they had fuel and spark, chances are they'd fire up. up here in the Northeast, those motors would be seized up solid. can't wait till that motorcycle engine is cast..
Old IHC pickups rare now. Dodges and Studebaker's also. I had one of these when I was 14...we used to drive over pine trees in the woods. Solid old trucks. Rusted out bad up North here. Scouts cool also.
Hello Jonathan I know you're the kind of guy that could care less about what other people think and that's what I like about you as I told the guys with budget build the reason why I subscribe to people like you is because your no-nonsense trying to preserve vehicles on a budget not like a lot of the others and definitely not like some of the real idiots I've seen on RU-vid they tear stuff up and they are sponsored to do it they get paid to do it which I think is a real shame but I'm just letting you know that's why I subscribed to your channel because you are not an idiot sir you're one of the smartest mechanics that I've ever seen so thanks for your videos and good luck in the future
Great to see all these old "Auto History On Wheels". Here in upstate/central NY the road salt has these for lunch. The only thing left you'll find, would be maybe 1/2 of the truck/car sitting above ground. The rest of the vehicle will be buried into the ground eaten by rust.
WOW, runs really smooth and sounds really healthy too. Congrats! Thanks a lot for making taping editing uploading and sharing. Best regards luck and health.
worked in a self storage yard in the early 90's had a 67 IH medium duty dump for a yard truck....4wd I think it was a 392 ....4spd was a beast no power steering....the damn wheel was almost as big as a hula hoop... lmao
I had a 1210 with a 345 that had 285+K miles on it. The cam bearings were so worn that the rear half of the valve train didn't get oil. I set up an drip oiling system thru the valve cover to lubricate the valves. Got another 8,000 miles out of it.
Hey Jonathon, I've watched a few of your videos now since they keep showing up on my recommended list. Good stuff you have here, so I am subscribing. I' a retired mechanic, well let's say retired, I stopped twisting wrenches in 1993, retired in 2016.
I used t love the looks of a 61 Binder. Over and under headlights on a brand new school bus. Our bus driver would never get in 5 th gear. On our last day of school, she ( bus driver) put her in 5 th gear for 1 mile. We thought ( her kids)we were in Heaven. lol
I wonder if the truck had a mechanical overhaul in the '90s when it saw service as a dump truck. It could be that the odometer was zeroed then because it had effectively a new engine, transmission and rear end. That used to be fairly common practice with commercial vehicles in the UK when they got a full overhaul, until it was outlawed. If the odometer is right then you might have a truck with virtually new mechanics under it. You were saying about the camshaft drive gears whining on those, I assume the gears are steel then, rather than the fibre gears that Ford used in their V4 and V6 (Essex) engines in Europe which is smart thinking, refinement wasn't a big consideration for trucks then, unlike cars, and those fibre gears have a nasty habit of stripping when they get old which wrecks the engine...
this is a truck i would be interested in owning. like you, i have a soft spot for internationals. i have way to many irons in the fire right now to add another project but this is a really nice truck. i dont have any real nice old ones....yet. although i have several.... 9670, s series, 2) 4700 and 4900, 8) 4300 and a 8600.
Nice to hear the old Cornbinder run again. I've been waiting for this. Looks like the right rear brake drum might be stuck. A couple of the Studebaker trucks I've rescued have had gear oil on the brake linings making them swell up and stick. Might just be some rust. Not many people have saved the medium size trucks. Hope this one gets a new life. Might make a classic service truck.......just thinkin'.
I feel you on the paperwork. New York is one of the worst places to try to get title to an old vehicle. Some states title back to 15 or 25 years. NY titles to 1973, regardless. What a pain.
At high rpm, IHs oil returns can't keep up with the amount of oil that gets pumped up too. I've heard of them starving for oil if it's a little low at high rpm. The easy "fix" is to run it with an extra quart in it. But those long tubes welded on the valve covers could be to keep oil from sloshing out the breathers. I used a non vented oil fill cap and plumbed an extra vent line to the crank case vent.
Jerry McBride had a 392 in old international bus,it was alot more power than the 345 s in my dumptruck s,definitely like the 392 better, alot torqueier.