[stevepinette]

Cool build man, sad to see that 92 get cannibalized but the chassis seems perfect for this. Those ZR2 front end components should help with all the extra weight and you'll be able to slam that *.

 

[TokoDragon]

Cool build man, sad to see that 92 get cannibalized but the chassis seems perfect for this. Those ZR2 front end components should help with all the extra weight and you'll be able to slam that *.

I had a dream of going through that 1992 s10 and painting it, and new interior etc. but the trifecta of my pocketbook, dream and elbow grease were all out of proportion.
It's pretty rust free, but every single panel has some kind of damage; My friend who owned it before got it for a cheap hunting truck, The driver side was wiped out we just replaced the door so the glass would roll down, but still has a crushed rocker and banged up behind the door, the tires were junk so I sold him my left over 31" tires and we hacked the fenders up to make them fit.

Last by Miko Hall, on Flickr

It Sat long enough to start 1 of those Jumanji plants.

Mechanic is a little husky

Last by Miko Hall, on Flickr

Last by Miko Hall, on Flickr


Last by Miko Hall, on Flickr

Last by Miko Hall, on Flickr

Last by Miko Hall, on Flickr

I haven't got as much done as I wanted too but it's still crawling along, I got the bottom side buttoned up enough to roll it back upright.


Hole

Progress by Miko Hall, on Flickr

No hole

Progress by Miko Hall, on Flickr

Grinder skills

Progress by Miko Hall, on Flickr

Progress by Miko Hall, on Flickr

Eh, I discovered a lot of the horrible welding went away when I changed how I was grounding my welder, I stuck a bolt through a hole and blasted the paint off.

Progress by Miko Hall, on Flickr

This still needs a lot of work but it can wait.

Progress by Miko Hall, on Flickr

only picture I got of the bottom after welding all the patch panels in, Jenn running the pressure washer, I haven't had much help with previous projects but she helped a lot with the shop crane and hopefully the rest of this IHC. We
pretty successfully built an 'off road' shop crane. I used 10'' swivel wheels and 8'' solid wheels and welded up some brackets to bolt them to the crane in the same manner the factory castors did so I can easily swap back to the way it was if I need to lift more weight- since the new wheels have a significantly lower weight limit.

Off road shop crane by Miko Hall, on Flickr

Moved by Miko Hall, on Flickr

Moved by Miko Hall, on Flickr

Moved by Miko Hall, on Flickr

Even through this ridiculousness it rolled!

Moved by Miko Hall, on Flickr

Move by Miko Hall, on Flickr


It's going to be a real PITA getting all this to fit in the 48

Last by Miko Hall, on Flickr

 

[Amphib]

Cool project. I look forward to watching your progress.

 

[goes2fast]

I just ran across this thread and will be following. The first truck I drove that was bigger than a half-ton was a KB series farm truck while we were harvesting oats and some friends had some IH pickups back then and I always liked their look. The bed and fenders you have are from a later model pickup and are not K series. but the later R series. The front fenders you have are not correct either. I don't know what model they are off of but this is what a 1948 KB5 looks like.

This is what a KB pickup looks like.

And this is how you make one worth more than a Chevy of the same vintage.

Here is an example of an earlier vintage that also makes a nice street rod.

This is an R model like the bed you have.

And a couple more KB pics for incentive.

Keep up the good work!

 

[TokoDragon]

Yep, bed is later, this truck wouldn’t have had a bed from the factory, it was a commercial medium duty truck.

The pictures you posted are KB 1-5 IHC trucks, this 1 is a KBs6, the 6+ KB trucks had big fenders and headlights still on pedestals.

 

[goes2fast]

I never saw any KB6s around here so I didn't know what it was. Most of the farmers in my area used either Chevy/GMCs or the KB5s with beds similar to the one on the KB6 in your photo. The one I drove at around age 14 was the same colors like this one but the sides on the bed were taller, about the same height as the cab. I had to drive alongside the combine while it harvested our oats. Our farm wasn't large enough to warrant buying a combine or truck so we hired a neighbor to do the combine work and borrowed the truck from another neighbor. The KB5s were very popular in our area as were the pickups.

This truck is what happened to one of the pickups here, it was at a car show that the Arvada Fire Fighters put on every year in August to raise money for charity. This year sucks because of no cruise nights or car shows though! 😢

I have always loved the looks of the KB trucks.

 

[TokoDragon]

That silver truck is awesome!
I didn’t know what it was when I bought it, but it was cheap. I looked into swapping 1-5 kB front clip but everyone wants more for fenders than I paid for this whole truck.

the cab on the 6+ trucks is essentially a carry over from the 37-40 D-series harvesters but it’s was also expensive to track down a set of those 1-5 fenders. So looks like I’m going to be chopping these fenders down and trying to get them to match the rear fenders better and trimming the hood down or making a new hood, luckily the hoods on theses are pretty flat sheet metal.

 

[TokoDragon]

Mocked by Miko Hall, on Flickr

Well only a briefly long 5 months since an update

Mocked by Miko Hall, on Flickr

warranty voided

Untitled by Miko Hall, on Flickr

Untitled by Miko Hall, on Flickr
Original firewall was 10 gauge steel!
Untitled by Miko Hall, on Flickr

Untitled by Miko Hall, on Flickr

Untitled by Miko Hall, on Flickr

Untitled by Miko Hall, on Flickr

 

[TokoDragon]

Untitled by Miko Hall, on Flickr

Pretty happy with the bed to wheel fitment, but I'll be cutting the floor out to lower it.

Untitled by Miko Hall, on Flickr

Untitled by Miko Hall, on Flickr

Probably should have had the cab on the frame while laying out the floor skeleton... had to cut the middle bar out weld it back in a few inches back and added 1 further up. I have a bead roller now to experiment with that on this floor.

Untitled by Miko Hall, on Flickr

This all seems fine, steering wheel is centered inside, but I'll need a longer steering shaft, since the cab is higher and further back

Untitled by Miko Hall, on Flickr

Untitled by Miko Hall, on Flickr

Untitled by Miko Hall, on Flickr

Untitled by Miko Hall, on Flickr

 

[goes2fast]

Happy to see you back, I had almost forgotten about this build. Even in the 60s, IH used thicker metal in their pickups than other manufacturers. We had a 64 half-ton that was a great truck other than the gas mileage.

I can't believe someone hung a turn signal on the side of the cab when everyone put them on the fender.

 

[TokoDragon]

They guy I bought it from said the turn signals on the cab is what caught his eye, I can tell by the wiring they were added quite a bit later. They are plastic coated vs the cloth wrap the other wiring has.
From the factory this era of International Harvester never came with turn signals the grille lights were only running lights, the turn signal lever on the steering column is an old aftermarket add-on.

before I dug too deep I was thinking it’d be like joedoh’s AD truck builds, it’d get a bit lighter after the swap, but a lot of this IHC cab is HEAVY gauge steel.
there are some big ass dents in the passenger fender, I bet there is a knocked down building someplace to match those dents.

 

[goes2fast]

That IH pickup I told you about was the first pickup that my grandfather had with factory turn signals. The 55 Chevy it replaced used aftermarket signals mounted on the fenders. I think they may have been an option on pickups in 55 and if the dealer didn't speck them you had to add aftermarket.

 

[Mad Max]

Winter has a tendency to short circuit projects...
Good to see this back in the forum. Is the cab mounted to the chassis or is it sitting in place?

It's really sad that Joedoh bailed on the forum.
He was always good for a laugh and he was pretty clever at fabbing truck/chassis swaps.
Always had interesting projects going on.
Anyone heard from him lately?

 

[TokoDragon]

‘Is it mounted’ is a loaded question LOL.

I have 1 bolt in the front fully in place holding the cab on, I need to drill a hole for the other 3 mounts- it is sitting on the new poly mounts.

right now I’m mocking all the steering, brakes, and making sure the HVAC at least bolts up through the firewall. I need to smooth grind the inner firewall and final weld the s10 pieces in from the back side. I’m going to get the floor all figured out while it’s on the chassis, Then pull it all apart again to fill the huge hole in the middle of the firewall.

 

[TokoDragon]

Still working on it!
I'm getting married in August, and haven’t had much time to work on anything.

Then my fiancé found someone selling a group of cars for 1 low price, so now we have 3 old mopars nestled in next to the IHC project.

Untitled by Miko Hall, on Flickr

I accumulated a horde of gift cards from people and bought a canopy because it's hotter than Ash's Olds pulling a house out here.

Untitled by Miko Hall, on Flickr

Spaghetti Monster almighty these cars smell like a floating rat hotel sank in a potato field.

Untitled by Miko Hall, on Flickr

We had a trailer for the 1st 2 cars, but Uhaul put a time limit on that so I took a leaf from my dad's book and strapped the 1950 coronet to the back of the truck with a ratchet strap and threw a tire between them. That dodge had a flappier brake pedal than betty whites arm and I sat in that rat hotel and piloted it at about 20mph around midnight. I was the most surprised to find there was no damage to anything, the strap was so tight there wasn't any bumping action. We call that car 'Rollie' now. It was the only 1 we had 4 unflat tires on after a lot of swapping. + we got the original title to it and the 1st owner was named Roland.

Untitled by Miko Hall, on Flickr


Good enough firewall

Untitled by Miko Hall, on Flickr

and floor

Untitled by Miko Hall, on Flickr

Untitled by Miko Hall, on Flickr

Untitled by Miko Hall, on Flickr

picked up a 3rd row seat from a 2010 suburban- not a great choice I don't really like how they look but it was super cheap.

Untitled by Miko Hall, on Flickr

me Giving them a try

Untitled by Miko Hall, on Flickr

 

[ProCycle]

...Then my fiancé found someone selling a group of cars for 1 low price...

SHE is a keeper!

 

[bk2life]

to fully identify it, there is a VIN lookup on https://www.binderplanet.com if you haven't been on there, its a forum dedicated to IH vehicles.

 

[Salty Crusty]

Glad I found the '56 Chevy I was looking for....I get tired as hell just thinking about all the work ahead of you. Good luck, I like seeing this old iron back on the road.

 

[TokoDragon]

Procycle yep! She was the 1 that called the guy and setup a time to see the cars !


BK2Life I joined a IHC group on Facebook but a lot of them weren’t too happy about putting 1 on a Chevy frame and had to let me know it.

Salty Crusty it doesn’t matter how much work it needs really, if it wasn’t this I’d be working on something else.


I just want more time to do it, I had 2 jobs for awhile and quit 1 for more free time, then made the mistake of taking some promotions at the other job. I was given 3 weeks worth of paid vacation but so far this year I’ve only gotten 2 days off and they negotiated me out of my 1 week vacation in August and still trying to convince me I want to work through my week vacation after Christmas- It blows!
So Jenn my fiancé got us setup with these dodges to see if there’s any job quitting profit in flipping cars. I know there won’t be but I’ll let her keep bringing projects home

 

[bk2life]

BK2Life I joined a IHC group on Facebook but a lot of them weren’t too happy about putting 1 on a Chevy frame and had to let me know it.

thats facebook. all of facebook. that is also why i posted the link to the forum. facebook is for children or chevy colorado owners.