'52 International L-122 4x4 'Coleman Conversion' - The Journey! Pt. 1
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 31 ธ.ค. 2022
- Why would you find an abandoned old truck in a remote, Northern California junkyard, decide to fix it up where it sits- and then drive it 2,500 miles cross country home?!
Because: ADVENTURE!!
The video covers the journey of the '52 International L-122 4x4 Coleman conversion from Carson City, NV to Ely, NV. - ยานยนต์และพาหนะ
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You should be very proud of your lovely wife for her attitude of being such a great companion. Most women would never jump into a journey like this. You are also very brave to criscross the country in the 52 truck. You inspire myself to go beyond my neighborhood with my 54 R-110....! Cheers from Brazil.
That is one Bad Ass Truck. I really love it. Im going to have to find you a vintage winch for it. Then it
would even be Bad Asser :-) I tried to find those tires on line but the ones you have are no bueno.
Im going to ad Towuima Caves to my hit list. Thank you. Oh nice to meet oyur pretty lady friend !
Regards from Ody Slim
I applaud your determination and abilities to rebuild and drive a 70 year old truck that distance after your "shakedown cruise"!! Well done.
Lovely super cool truck!!! 💪🏽💪🏽💪🏽
What an epic journey, doing a trip like this in a vintage truck is something that's been on my bucket list for a long time
It’s the best. Strongly recommend it.
That truck has proven itself uphill and on country roads, it was a nice test for its abilities.
Looks like you and your wife had a lot of fun. What a great country!
Glad to see more on your Coleman L-122 Eric! 😁👍 I bet that was one amazing adventure. Take care, be safe and happy wrenching 🔧🔩
Thanks for all the support! I really appreciate it!
that gate looks like a typical government job hats off to you for the work on that ride not everybody would take that on and then drive it across the country in a road trip exploration
On all my Scouts the shackle for the front always were in the front of the spring. So the 52 looks funny to me.. Good job I came over from IC weld ..cheers
Nice truck !!!
I had an one owner 55 Chevy Shortbed that I was going to put 4wd in. That was in the early 80's. A friend
offered up a nice Superglide as a trade. I rode that bike out to sturgis from MD and had the time of my
life. It was worth the trade but I still miss that truck. I am looking for a NAPCO or something bad ass like
yours to do the same as you. If you should find something please look me up. I have a trailer and will travel~
now this is a road trip, the gear train whine is music to these ol'ears 🥰
What an awesome way to see some of this beautiful country we live in. Thanks for taking us along. Can’t wait for more.
What an epic journey! I've been looking forward to you posting about this trip for months. What a commitment, it appears you all had a trip of a lifetime on your way back!
This has been an amazing trip thus far. Looking forward to part 2. That is one good lookung truck. Well done on the refurb!
Love the cave drawings. Thanks for sharing
I drove a good many miles in the areas your covering but surely newer better roads as I started to drive in 1963... I was not quite old enough for a drivers licence yet but back then, if you were driving a big commercial rig, they just smiled at you and told you to "keep it down kid" My truck was new in 1959 but the only new left was the house paint I used on different parts of this truck to make it look more like other fancy big rigs. It was a kenworth single axle with a thirty foot flatbed trailer. Dayton wheels ... kinda like what your running. I did go back to that countryside after my marriage failed in the early seventies. Married a cheater and it hurt so bad I remember well, crying big tears and listening to "Wolfman Jack". I would get on my C.B. radio and request different songs to help me get past it. It was nineteen seventy four, lots of great music... I was a great fan of Roy Orbison and other country stars at this time cause they sang songs of some poor bas***d who had lost his girl so it was turned up so loud that one time a cop pulls me over and said to me... I am going to ignore the speed, I am going to ignore the equipment violations, He**, I will even ignore whether you have been drinking or not..... BUT.... but please turn off that radio in town when you pass by here. You got half the town crying in their beer when that loud radio of yours is bouncing off of the walls here. Are you deaf? I usually wore some kind of my old military clothes. Like I said, I really had a case of feeling sorry for myself. I had taken the radio out of my dodge charger that she took from me in the divorce even though I bought it before we met... she just smiled at this judge and he was going to send me to the gallows if possible! By then, I had moved into a newish peterbilt truck, a old butterfly hood on it in those days. I owned the truck free and clear, had my name on the doors and her name was crossed out on the passenger side. Shortly after I knew that with my big old body, drinking and fighting would get me some prison time so went to alaska. I fit right in with the high alcohol rates in Ketchikan. I did love old rigs even back then but the roads are real short on the islands, the town of ketchikan only had seventeen miles of road from one end to the other. This part of my now whining makes a bit more sense if any does... I was a good hand at wrenching so I would start driving a logging truck, be dumb enough to fix it myself so I didn't lose any time driving.... as soon as they found out I could wrench, they jerked me from the seat and handed me a tool box. One thing positive was the money was super good cause you could work seven days a week and as many hours a day as you could stay awake. The bad thing was you traded your bed for a lantern as work started when stuff was shut down for the day. In those old logging camps were some of the largest junk piles of old equipment that just couldn't be fixed anymore or was so mangled up that how could you use it. Lots of international pickups, old buses from some school that was modeled off of a international. Ben from 406 garage has any part known for the internationals and just loves to replace old rigs with people looking for a project. If you haven't seen his channel, then give it a shot... I don't really care for his know it all attitude cause of the fact I did know and knew a good bit better. Thing is he has some of the nicest international rigs he has scored on. Some would melt your heart. I noticed that you were walking a little faster down some of the hills.... slow down and hold her hand, a good girl just about near impossible to find and to me she looks like a keeper. I know, keep my mouth shut and just mind my business. I did have some questions for you but my brain ain't got enough working parts to remember them... maybe on the next video... I am enjoying this memory lane stuff
'Truck', and,'Blue Line Highway', were two of my favorite books, when I was younger. I was going to leave out'Zen: and the Art of Motorcycle Repair', but you got this. Love the build up. Looking forward to the adventure !
‘Truck’ is a great book, Michael Perry is a favorite author (and fellow Wisconsin native)! I haven’t read ‘Blue Line Highway’, I’ll have to check it out.
What an amazing journey. Thanks for bringing us along.
Loving this truck adventure after seeing you on ICWeld, then searching for all of your progress. You're obviously having a grand time.. I was too slow posting on your live feed last night, thanks for sharing the trip- mjm
Bet my Power Wagon would take that hill😉. Thanks for the ride along!
Those old mountain trails would be a hoot and a half in an old PW
Loved the beautiful scenery and the truck!
Them there trucks are bad ass even to this day. Thank for updating American History. I drove em when they were brand new. We can’t always be in a hurry. So right on. Love your shit man. Enjoy I mean the truck not the girl. Just kidding.
Beautiful scenery
Haha middlegate station, ive been there back in the navy days, what a cool spot
Totally! That was our first time there, a true oasis!
Love the tranny sounds! 💪🏽💪🏽😎😎
Epic .
The master cylinder rod may not have enough free play, causing the brakes to apply as things heat up. Are you still looking for a 1952 penny? I have one for you.
Pretty cool. What brand and size are those tires?
Freeze frame 7:15 How much for a print? Seriously..
Beautiful. Love this amble through such epic landscapes. I reckon the more Native American mindset US citizens can take on board the quicker the States might return to a nation regarded by the rest of the world; present company accepted, of course.
What gear ratio you got in those axles?
Truck had 4.88s in it, I bumped them up to 4.11.
@@BareKnuckleBinder Good job! 👍
Just wanting to know some of the places online that you order your parts from.
There aren’t too many places online that I order IH-specific parts from. I have many saved searches on eBay for when hard to find parts and NOS IH part numbers pop up, occasionally something comes through. I frequently scan FB marketplace and the IH groups on FB for when folks are selling off parts trucks, rolling chassis stuff from frame swaps, motors, etc. and then harvest any useable parts from those.
Your headlights seem to be nice and bright. Did you upgrade them or is it just the camera?
Yes, I upgraded them. I need to make a video about the upgrades because I’ve done it to all my old IH’s headlights and I get a lot of questions about it, but here’s a quick rundown-
1. The traditional 7” sealed beam headlights bulbs are replaced with 7” ‘H4 conversion’ housings to accept any H4 bulb. That way you can run HID, different halogens or even LED and the headlights still look like traditional glass headlight bulbs. There are several companies that make these housings, but the ‘holy grail’ to find are made in Belgium by a company called Cibie and the variation is called the ‘Z beam’. Right now Cibies aren’t being imported for whatever reason, but if you google “Z beam replica” the knock offs are less than half the price and still better (in my opinion) than other housings.
2. The H4 bulbs I use in the housings are Hella 80w/100w Halogen. The traditional 7” sealed beam headlight bulbs are 55w/60w, if you put 55w/60w H4 bulbs in a Cibie housing, the visibility will still be greatly improved.
As far as LEDs are concerned: I only keep LED H4 bulbs in the glovebox for spares- I would love to use LEDs all the time to make the lower current draw easier on the charging system, but LEDs don’t ‘throw’ the light as far down the road as halogens and with the old windshields on 60-80 year old trucks, that makes a huge difference.
3. I installed a relay box so that the heavier current draw of the brighter bulbs doesn’t burn up my headlight switch. I beefed up the headlight wires to 10awg wire and replaced the headlight plugs with ceramic plugs to prevent anything melting or burning at the socket.
What was your cruising speed.?
Good question, I meant to post about it. At the point of this video we topped out on the highway at around 54 mph (according to phone GPS) and off road, depending on the condition of the trail, we were going anywhere from 15mph to 40mph.
Dirt is better than I80!
You got that right!