R-100 4X4

[Jesse Stewart]

What the %*# ??

Houston we have a problem ...

Not made the same as the 1968 908-B lens ...
Ad said they fit 61 to 69 pickups ...

Why me all the time ??

( Part No.: 210610R2 )

 

[Zaedster]

What the %*# ??

Houston we have a problem ...

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Not made the same as the 1968 908-B lens ...
Ad said they fit 61 to 69 pickups ...

Why me all the time ??

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"Old International Trucks" has the correct lens .......
( Part No.: 210610R2 )

Jesse,

We are just now getting to our emails and saw yours. We apologize for the incorrect part as the last batch from the factory were just found to be miss-labeled and sent to us. We will have to send you out a replacement set (as photographed) once we can rectify the issue with the vendor.

 

[Jesse Stewart]

Not done yet ...

Color sanding takes a wee bit of time to do ...
At the moment the bullets are nailed to the bumper just for keeping them in place while the sanding & buffing goes down ..
They will come off in order to finish working the bumper, once all gets done final assembly time is at hand ..
Not all that far away from being done .. At least with the bumper ..

The rear bumper will be, in a sense, two tone ...
Part of it that's not getting stepped on will have the same finish as the front ..
The part that does see the bottoms of my shoes will be shot with "Rhino Lining" same goes for the running boards ...

 

[FDChappie]

Nice looking set of dagmar's you've got there fella.

 

[Jesse Stewart]

Thanks ..
Buddy said I had a nice rack !!
( Didn't known rather to sock him in the eye or buy him a drink .. Lol )

Any who, glad this chore is almost done ..
Certainly was a time consuming job ..
Had to add a few inches to each side to get around the, new to me, fat fenders ..

Almost took a shortcut from building the bumper ..

Found a chrome bumper that was on a 1959 GMC 2 ton fire truck .. (It had Dagmars too, C cups I would say)

It was already wide and the chrome looked like day one, but it was straight had no curve to follow the lines of the Binder's grill ..
The 55 to 59 Chevy/GMC bumper looked like it belonged .. Reason why I choose to do the work extending it ..
Dagmars are from a 58 GMC pickup ( Double D's would be a good guess )

Pasties are for 57 Chevy Bel-Air, Custom spun alum.

Ol' bumper's finish is looking better than I anticipated, kind of a "Black Chrome" look ..
( As the name implies, Black Chrome an aesthetically darker version of chrome. However what makes it special is that it retains the characteristics of traditional chrome which gives it depth. )

 

[Jesse Stewart]

Got the idea to get a replacement bezel with one for the VDO tach .. That was a bit of a hunt to come across ..
Did find one and is on it's way to me ..

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Most likely will be a chore to swap the bezels out .. We will soon see what can of worms I will be opening up .. ??

Well Poo ...
That didn't work out so well ...
After explaining to the sales rep what I was wanting to do with the og tach bezel he said he has them ..
Ordered it, came in on the Opps truck ..

Well Sir ... Guess I wasn't very clear on what part of the VDO tach I was wanting ..

This trim ring goes over the VDO bezel ...
I don't have a need for it. will be sending it back ..

Back to the hunt ..

Above photo shows the Pontiac manifold vacuum gauge having the mismatch bezel ...
I'm wanting it to look like the tach bezel to net somewhat of a matching look ..

BTW ... That overdrive pull/push cable is only along for the ride ..
Been on the truck since the 80's .. I had it replated ..
Thoughts was to hook it up to work something, but never did find a use for it ..

Think I've nailed down the elusive VDO bezel ..

Called a lot of shops that does repairs on gauges, even a few shops in Cali. seems like it wasn't to be found ..
Was thinking of buying another tach just to scalp the bezel off of it ..
Had a few more shops to call, and what do ya know ??
Found one here in my backyard ..
South Florida shop said they have one and will get it shipped out tomorrow ..

Hopping it's the right critter this time around .. Soon to see ??

Getting the gauge prepped ...

^^ That's what I'm talking about ..

Need a thinner glass ... Most likely will need to be custom made .. !!

Well, do want the dash to look pretty dag-gum slick since it's always right in front of me, the more I eyeball the new to me bezel the more I'm wanting to have it replated ...
Did plate the og IH bezels years back and they still look like they was done yesterday .. The used VDO bezel don't look near as good ....
Soooooo .. Going to get it in the hands of the platers ... Hopping it will get back to me looking as good as the IH bezels do ..
Odds are it will be like Christmas Morning when I open the box up ... (Reason for saying this is the chrome shop I'm going to use has been an old friend for over forty + years, I worked in his shop for a few of those years)
BTY; all the chrome you see on the truck (And my Harley) was done in this shop .. He almost talked me into chroming the front bumper ...

He's coming out of retirement to do this small job for me .. !! (Hell of a fellow)

Here's a photo of the Harley ..

The Black & Blue one ... The other one behind it is a bad-boy 96" Turbo 48 Look-a-Like that I spun together ... Man that thing would haul ass ... Cop said I left 20 foot of rubber back there, I told him he had to be wrong, more like 30 or 40' ...
That was one of those times that I should had kelp my pie hole shut !!

My buddy Will (RIP) wrote a book that has that story in it ..
He was riding his bike and saw the whole ordeal go down ..

The Man on a Tractor is still at it ...

Kind of a rough paint job, but once I start in on doing the dash it will be seeing better paint laid down on it ...

 

[Jesse Stewart]

Whoa ...

This is only the tail light lit up ..

Hopping it don't give the Mud Flap Girl a sunburn ?!?

Or melt the lens !!

International Parts America .... You boys rock ...

Just for a comparison I took this photo (Below) showing the quartz tail light and the standard 1157 ...

Sometime back I already installed quartz bulbs in the backup lights ... They have a glass lens which is a huge plus running these hot bulbs ...

Both Hot Bulbs installed ... Ray Charles should be able to see these .. !?!

Dang, new looks good back there ..

Soon to pull off the 908-B bumper and sand blast it .. (Not a job I'm fond of doing)
Going to Two Tone it .. (This should be a good look for it ??)

 

[Jesse Stewart]

I just had to see ..

Was in the mode of reshooting one of the bullets (Dang Fish Eyes) and thought to myself, self how would the pasties look polished .. ??

What do y'all think ??
Go with the polish or keep the machined look ??

It's not likely the ol' Binder will be seeing much off-road action ..
More of a street-rod than a balls to the wall rock climber ..
Must say, do like the shinny shi errrrrrr stuff .. !

I do value others opinions ... So don't be shy, say sumthin ....

( Good place for a poll )

Ok, alright since there was a overwhelming response to what y'all thought looked the best, I took it on myself on what I thought would ... Going with the polished nip errrr pasties ...

 

[Jesse Stewart]

Dang-it ..

Building it to dag-gum slick, won't want to take it off road !!

 

[Jesse Stewart]

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[Jesse Stewart]

Findlay got tired of cleaning the two fuel filters and taking the carb apart ..
Took a bore scope to the gas tank many moons ago and sure as shi* stinks didn't like seeing what I was looking at ..

Been putting this job off way to long so now I'm getting around to doing the cure !

Mega RUST ..

Even ate up the sending unit !!

Knew I was going to need a new unit, had it sitting in a box ready to be installed when I did get around to doing the work.

Here's the story why the tank got so rusty ..

Thieves needed some gas, this was at my shop in Vegas, had the truck parked in front of the shop (Which was in a complex) doing some work on it ..
They came by in the dead of the night and tore the locking gas cap off the tank mutilating the filler neck ...
( The tank was pretty much empty cause I was running off the 30 gallon auxiliary tank that was in the bed of the truck at the time, they didn't hit it, it was also locked )

So here came the cut up coke can that covered the fill neck ..
Went on the hunt for another tank to saw the neck off and weld to my tank ..
Years went by before I found one ..
In the meantime I ran off the aug. tank and didn't use the og tank ..

Was hopping to find a good tank and do a swap, that didn't happen but did come up with a super rusty tank that had a good neck and did the weld to mine ..
Dang tank must of had Alien blood in it ..

So now the game plan is to Por-15 the tank and get it back in service ..

Getting it ready for the Por-15 treatment ..

The tank liner stuff came in .. Working with it now as I'm typing this ...

First part of the procedure is using the Cleaner Degreaser ...
It's mixed with hot water..

Then the metal perp, after that a few rinses with hot water, dried the tank with a heat gun and ready for the sealant ..
All of that took bout two days to do .. Sealant requires 96 hours to cure ...

Very pleased with the finish results ...

Wil be treating the bed tank with the Por 15 too just for future rust protection ..

 

[Jesse Stewart]

Been on the hunt for a right side tank ..
Those seems to be long gone, wasn't that many made since they was a option ..
Not needed all that much, I have the original left side tank back on line and the 30 gallon auxiliary, in bed, tank..
With nailing down the dash fuel switch be really nice to see it work in all three modes of operations (Left, Center and Right)

My thoughts for a Oem right side has shifted from locating one to finding another left side and do some slice & dicing ..
(Been known to do that on occasions)
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Gearing up to work the dash ..
Wasn't all that fond of the headlight switch ... ( Used the starter switch hole )
It stood out from all the other dash switches ...
Needed some og IH parts to rework the switch ...

My plan is to weld in a plug for the og starter switch hole ( Reducing the hole size ) and use a nut that's the same as the other dash switches ..

Attaining these parts is just a step closer to getting the dash completed to the required finish look that .pleases my eye ..
May have the og nut plated to match the others that was dipped years back ..
It may polish up ok, be here in a few days .. We'll see how it goes ??

About those "Peek" mirrors ....
Sure going to miss the West Coast mirrors since I can't see much out of the tiny Peek mirrors ...

... BUT ...

I may have come up with a solution .. ??

 

[Jesse Stewart]

 

[Jesse Stewart]

Sand blasting is a job that I'm NOT fond of doing ..

Got most of the old paint off using a DA ..
The places that the DA couldn't get into will be blasted ..

(Dang sand finds every crack on my body to get into !!)

Found some rust under some Bondo ..

Cut back to good metal and made a patch to weld in ....

 

[Jesse Stewart]

Back to the dash ..

Found the Oem bezel and headlight switch nut ..
Not going to be plug & play due the the GM switch uses a larger thread in the switch ...

Could machine out a new nut to have the needed threads on both sides ..
Or modify the GM switch to have the smaller IH thread ..
Not sure what I'm going to do just yet ..

I'm sure that the new to me bezel will be rechromed to match the other bezels that has been dipped ..

Did a super light polish job on it and broke though the chrome that it had ..
The idea behind all this work is to have all the dash knobs to look the same .. All are 1954 IH Oem ..
Soon to have the dash out of the truck for a world of prep work ..

 

[PaulH]

I believe the original IH switch was a Delco D1537, GM 1995041. They can still be found new. You would probably have to use the knob and shaft from the IH, but that's just a matter of pushing the button and pulling it out.

 

[Jesse Stewart]

I used the wiring harness from the donor 75 GMC truck that the frame came from ...
It had glass fuses. got a new upgrade harness for the same year and model GM truck .. It uses the plastic type fuses ..

Headlight switch is also 1975 GM (It's a new Delco)
The gig I have going on is to marry the IH bezel and knob to the GM switch ..

 

[Jesse Stewart]

Working the dash is next to do ..
Do think I've acquired all the parts needed ...

Fuel gauge switch sure was a PITA to nail down ...

That's done and over with now ...
I'm looking at this find as the same as finding a piece of the holy grail .. !
Do have the 54 knob and bezel (Been plated) to replace the plastic and nut the switch came with ...

Mounting the switch in the lower center under the cigarette lighter ...

All the knobs on the dash will match but for the AC knobs mounted under the dash in it's own pod ..

The AC control knobs have built-in lights ... Should net a nice look at night ...

 

[Jesse Stewart]

Hummmmmm

Found a good left side tank that's not rottened away ..
Being I had absolutely no luck findings the Oem aux. right side tank, going to put plan "B" on the table ..

Lets see what can of worms I'll be getting my fat ass into moving the filler neck ?!?
Already been giving a lot of thought on how to make this modification happen ...
Got a few ideas in mind, nothing solid just yet ..

Be awhile waiting for the tank to show up, it's in the frozen North at the moment ...

 

[Jesse Stewart]

Drivers side running board is almost ready to see color ...

Right side board is still on the truck.
Soon to be working it, got a aux. fuel tank to install that will add a bit more work to the job ..

Since a factory optionable aux right side tank is nowhere to be found I decided to modify a left side tank by moving the filler neck ..
Found a solid tank to work with ... Tank number three on the truck soon to happen.