1970's International Harvester 1700 truck questions

[hslogger]

The best twenty dollars you will spend is for a line setting sheet. For Internationals, this is the birth certificate and will tell you what engine, transmission, rear end, brakes etc that truck has. It will take the guess work out of any work you will do on it. Line Set Ticket - Factory Build Sheet for your IH Vehicle - IH Parts America

You might be able to get one from the local IHC dealer for free, but I think those days are over. Trust me, you need to have this.

 

[Hay Dude]

I believe that to be the case. I intend on taking the rack over the cab off and just having a flat bed (once I put new boards on it). I'm going to take it to the farm and use it on and around the farm. I *might* build a set of ramps to put my tractor on the this truck if I really need to move it.

Not liking that rack over the cab? Nice place to store spare tires, hand tools and the like.
Gonna be along set of ramps-heavy, too.

 

[juddspaintballs]

I hit my head on the rack already getting in once. I'm not going to keep doing that.

 

[dieselscout80]

I think that is a IH SV series which are typically 304/345/392.

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The original poster's truck does not look like a tilt hood. IIRC all the tilt hoods in the Loadstars were fiberglass at the least all that I saw and I worked for a IHC dealer in the 70s.

 

[MossRoad]

I think that is a IH SV series which are typically 304/345/392.

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The original poster's truck does not look like a tilt hood. IIRC all the tilt hoods in the Loadstars were fiberglass at the least all that I saw and I worked for a IHC dealer in the 70s.

Side access, not tilt hood.

 

[fried1765]

View attachment 641005The best twenty dollars you will spend is for a line setting sheet. For Internationals, this is the birth certificate and will tell you what engine, transmission, rear end, brakes etc that truck has. It will take the guess work out of any work you will do on it. Line Set Ticket - Factory Build Sheet for your IH Vehicle - IH Parts America

You might be able to get one from the local IHC dealer for free, but I think those days are over. Trust me, you need to have this.

You are absolutely correct about needing the "Line Ticket"
I had a (1210) 1972 3/4 ton 4x4 Travellall for many years.
An absolute brute!
I had the 392 V-8

 

[Hay Dude]

I had the line set ticket for my 1600 4x4. It was very faded, but still legible. It was 60” cab to axle with a 8’ dump. I had optional auxiliary fuel tank, manual choke, manual throttle and engine mounted hydraulic pump (for snowplow). Mine had had the 345 V8. It was a mixed ownership experience. It wasn’t really powerful and rode horrible, the carb was always in need of adjusting. The front hubs were difficult to lock. I remember I had to actually rock the truck back and forth slightly to lock them. It had these tiny shift levers in the cab to lock the transfer case in 4WD or high and low range. Never got used to the severely curved windshield glass and lack of power for the windshield defrost. I plowed lots of snow with it (when it was running). By about 2000, trucks had advanced so much, I sold it. Im pretty sure did manage to sell it for more than I paid for it, but I invested in paint, tires and fixed a lot of annoying mechanical issues.
Kind of a “lovable relic” compared to newer trucks.

 

[stevewarner1957]

Love those old Internationals. I plowed snow in the 80’s for the state in Loadstars with 392 V8 and nice dual exhaust. They sounded sweet pushing a big blade full of snow with the bed up a little spreading salt.

 

[RickB]

I think that is a IH SV series which are typically 304/345/392.

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The original poster's truck does not look like a tilt hood. IIRC all the tilt hoods in the Loadstars were fiberglass at the least all that I saw and I worked for a IHC dealer in the 70s.

Nobody suggested it was a tilt hood. It clearly is not.

 

[Paystar]

You can get the line setting sheets from an International dealer for free. That is a sweet truck. I've always loved the Loadstar and Fleetstar, especially that body style.

I'd love to put that body on my F550 4x4 chassis.