I have nearly this exact truck! It is Red, American, Budd wheels (love the Daytons, btw), with the auxiliary tank removed, and much rustier 'cause it was stored outside. Quick tip: Bend the accelerator pump linkage so that it squirts fuel into the carb with every bit of pedal movement. It works itself out of adjustment and needs to be corrected every decade or so. Apparently IHC and Holley didn't foresee people using these things this far into the future as every single one of them has the same problem. If you adjust the accelerator pump linkage to the maximum setting you don't have to pump pump pump to get the thing started. It only takes the initial one needed to set the choke because you are getting the whole throw of the accelerator pump rather than a tiny fraction. It also dumps heaping gobs of fuel into the carb when accelerating. Say (mostly) goodbye to hesitation during shifting. And it is all because a bend in a little piece of wire is off by 5 degrees because of wear. Who knew?
ford9572, if you are still out there, this ain't a 345. It is a MV404. The grandad of the Ford Powerstroke and built for gasoline. See, International made the MV-series to replace the SV-series engines in medium-duty truck applications, The gasoline 404 cid engine of the series had a short build time in the original configuration but made bigger through slightly altered bore/stroke (I can't remember which), with different heads to burn diesel, then put it into school buses it was a more compact substitute for the DT466. This was around the same time as IHC exiting the passenger vehicle market building Scouts, pickups, Travelalls, and other things because of corporate difficulties. Now, out of competition of one another, Ford strolled up and offered to pay the reinvented "Navistar International" for these engines for the F-series pickup line to compete with Dodge and the Cummins 6BT and GMC with the Detroit 6.2L. ...and that is the story of how my IHC dump-truck and my Ford pickup share so many parts from the bellhousing forward.
Sounds like ether a old gasoline issue or the carb/choke not working together correctly, but check the fuel filter too, that can ruin the whole start-up issue as well.
we own a 1973 international loadstar. great trucks.
I have nearly this exact truck! It is Red, American, Budd wheels (love the Daytons, btw), with the auxiliary tank removed, and much rustier 'cause it was stored outside.
Quick tip: Bend the accelerator pump linkage so that it squirts fuel into the carb with every bit of pedal movement. It works itself out of adjustment and needs to be corrected every decade or so. Apparently IHC and Holley didn't foresee people using these things this far into the future as every single one of them has the same problem.
If you adjust the accelerator pump linkage to the maximum setting you don't have to pump pump pump to get the thing started. It only takes the initial one needed to set the choke because you are getting the whole throw of the accelerator pump rather than a tiny fraction. It also dumps heaping gobs of fuel into the carb when accelerating. Say (mostly) goodbye to hesitation during shifting. And it is all because a bend in a little piece of wire is off by 5 degrees because of wear. Who knew?
love the sneaker pumping that big ass beast. awesome
ford9572, if you are still out there, this ain't a 345. It is a MV404. The grandad of the Ford Powerstroke and built for gasoline.
See, International made the MV-series to replace the SV-series engines in medium-duty truck applications, The gasoline 404 cid engine of the series had a short build time in the original configuration but made bigger through slightly altered bore/stroke (I can't remember which), with different heads to burn diesel, then put it into school buses it was a more compact substitute for the DT466. This was around the same time as IHC exiting the passenger vehicle market building Scouts, pickups, Travelalls, and other things because of corporate difficulties. Now, out of competition of one another, Ford strolled up and offered to pay the reinvented "Navistar International" for these engines for the F-series pickup line to compete with Dodge and the Cummins 6BT and GMC with the Detroit 6.2L.
...and that is the story of how my IHC dump-truck and my Ford pickup share so many parts from the bellhousing forward.
very nice
NICE pumpage on that big ol' IH 345 V8!!! Pump It Baby Pump It!!! Then once it starts, Rev it like you HATE it!!!
nice pedal pumping big man...very nice.
Sounds like ether a old gasoline issue or the carb/choke not working together correctly, but check the fuel filter too, that can ruin the whole start-up issue as well.
I agree with auaiao9----very nice pedalpumping....Keep slapping that pedal to the floor.. ::))
Pump it, flood it, crank it. :)
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please do one like this with just socks on! no shoes. :) thanks!
@jamesfust So I guess Edelbrock must be FAR better than Holley?
@floodedcaddy and revv the hell out of it
put a choke on it.