Michael Dimock
IH Parts America Sales Assoc.
Here goes the build up of my newly acquired free 73 1210 4x4!
has not much rust to speak of, floors seem to be very solid as I can't see any holes from underneath, but I haven't pulled the floor mat yet.... The specs are 345 v8, Dana 44 closed knuckle front, Dana 60 power locked rear, 4.10's, t-19 w tranny, np 205 tcase, drivers side pto (pto winch was removed sloppily w/ torch at some point...), power steering, and it's a flatbed. Will be hopefully swapping out pto units to my newly acquired forward reversing, 2 output pto unit
, swapping the dump bed from the 68 1300, and bed lining the inside/painting everything else. It needs tanks at this point, but for now, I'll just have a 5 gal can in the back like the stock behind the seat tank. I'll either build one to go between the framerails or put one on either side of the truck under the cab. Here's the pics:
has not much rust to speak of, floors seem to be very solid as I can't see any holes from underneath, but I haven't pulled the floor mat yet.... The specs are 345 v8, Dana 44 closed knuckle front, Dana 60 power locked rear, 4.10's, t-19 w tranny, np 205 tcase, drivers side pto (pto winch was removed sloppily w/ torch at some point...), power steering, and it's a flatbed. Will be hopefully swapping out pto units to my newly acquired forward reversing, 2 output pto unit, swapping the dump bed from the 68 1300, and bed lining the inside/painting everything else. It needs tanks at this point, but for now, I'll just have a 5 gal can in the back like the stock behind the seat tank. I'll either build one to go between the framerails or put one on either side of the truck under the cab. Here's the pics:
rigged up my own special gravity feed tank, using a vegetable oil container, a 3/8 hose barb, and some semi hard gasket material. Tried firing it up and got to watch a firestorm explode out of the carb!
eventually got the distributor in the right place and she came to life! The truck had been sitting for 10 years, so I got my oil pump drive tool and the ol drill and went to town on the oil pump for 1/2 an hour. It is a really slow huge drill, so pump speed was probably idle or less. It did the job, as it isn't ticking at all. #8 plug isn't firing, and didn't seem to be fouled, so I might try another plug wire tomorrow to see if I got a bad one. Changed out the plug to no new effect.... The clutch works, and the brakes sorta ( I only got 1/16 or normal pedal play!
) the power steering works awesome! Even with closed knuckles, it turned way easier than the 84 Ford, May it r.I.p (sold Sunday) will be getting a new master cyl tomorrow. Oh, don't mind my language on the vid (she idles like a beaut boys!
) I was kinda excited.
been workin on the 68 1300 and will have to modify the bed a little bit, as the frames are slightly different, but otherwise, it should be any easy swap. Probably will break down and get an oxy acetylene setup so I can cut and weld everything up at the barn (no electricity) I know its gonna be slow, but the $$ could either go towards a generator or oxy/acetylene.
I also stripped a lot of parts from a 75 200 1 ton to go to the travelette and this. Travelette gets first dibs...
here are some pics:
Friday ( I work 4/10's mon-thurs ) I picked up my carb spacer from napa and got the carb fitted on and the engine running again. Used my ears and found a major vacuum leak coming from the brake booster, and it didn't work anyway so it was shit-canned!
the booster's weren't the same, but a couple of minutes of pondering and measuring were enough to come up with a plan. Some new holes in the mounting brackets and lengthening of the pedal was all the was needed. Fired the motor back up and bam! Working brake booster!
Sunday, I welded together some tank straps, put the tank up in place, had to f' with the tank filler hose for about an hour to get it to go on and stay on. Years of being exposed to the weather makes rubber brittle. 
got it in place, and put the new fuel pump in. Headed into alsea for 5 gallons of gas and a fuel filter and got all that plumbed in..... Got the truck running off of it's own fuel and took it out for a drive.
the 345 seems to have a lot of power and the truck cruised straight down the road. I didn't bother the bleed the brakes, so upon braking I went hard driver and spent a while turning around (no power steering belt....) and had fun driving it back, as I almost hit the mailbox because of my lax of effort on the brakes.
will get the brakes bled, power steering hooked up, fluids changed, and front wheel bearings greased. For a couple questions: does the np 205 transfer case take gear oil or 50wt motor oil and how should I go about pulling the brake drums off, as the front passenger seems to be rusted on?
