My father's 'Loadstar' was/is a 1600 he bought well used and worn-out. Had belonged to a construction company and had like 3 zillion miles on it when he got it.
The 345ci engine was so worn that it could barely get itself down the road to the farm...a compression check yielded not much compression. Pistons had so much taper they looked like ice cream cones! :shock: Cam lobes were rounded off... :( The carburetor throttle shafts were worn and floppy(like the pistons and cam) Sears supplied us a reman carb
That said I overhauled the engine after a re-bore and new pistons cam and lifters and it was a good powerful truck then. My best guess is father bought it because it had brand new tires all around
Had a weird transmission a five speed with an odd shift pattern...1 and 2 were up...3 and 4 were down with 5th up away from the driver. The Loadstar was equipped with a Rockwell 2 speed axel...and once it had a fresh engine was an amazingly powerful truck...about the fastest wheat truck I ever drove and unloaded could run with about anything else on the highway. Only grain truck I have driven that could touch 100mph!
There...I waxed poetic about a IH Loadstar(not my favorite brand of truck)
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