My first IH was a '63 1100 Travelall, bought used at 80,000 miles. IH had a 100,000 mile warranty on the engine at a time when the big 3 had only 12,000 mile warranties. I drove it through British Columbia and the Yukon on the narrow gravel Alcan Highway and spent the summer of 68 romping through Alaska with it. When I got back to Mpls, it became my snowplow, carpenter, and farm truck. It didn't have much for creature comfort, but was stout and reliable. When the body finally died, I put the engine and 4 speed tranny in another body and ran it to 300,000 miles until that body rusted away. The family of V8s was the 266, 304, 345, 392 cu in engines with many interchangeable parts. They were heavy duty engines for the light trucks. No timing chain to go out, just gear on gear driving the camshaft. Hydraulic lifters, sodium filled exhaust valves, hardened valve seats. Their possible shortcoming was the fuel pump, as it failed, it would shoot oil at the underside of the hood, and people thought the engine had died. I bought many of them cheap just by opening the hood and seeing the oil on the underside of the right side of the hood, I could then buy the truck for about $400. New fuel pumps were about $20, and easy to replace. I had a 68 C1200 PU w/304, a 72 D1100 Travelall 392 4x4, a 74 D1200 PU 345 4X4, a 75 D1200 392 PU 4X4 w/bucket seats. The Travelalls were my family vehicles that often pulled RV trailers, and the PUs were work trucks. When the last 75 rusted too badly for snowplowing, I switched over to Dodge W350s. I sure missed the IH trucks. We also had 2 of the IH 1600 Loadstar series (304 & 345) 2 toners for farm use. I never had an engine failure in any of them. My favorites of the light trucks were the C series (63 to 68). The D series (69 - 75) had more rust problems.
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