1967 International COE, Small Adventure

He installed Ubuntu and something called wine. It has him going so far but I just passed the winex recommendation on to him. Yesterday was frustrating for him, I'm proud of him for sticking with it and solving some problems to get the machine up and running. He's installing Rocket League right now. He's annoyingly excited.

As for me, it's raining. Quite a lot. I get bored inside, walk out to the Grosh, clean something, go back inside, rinse and repeat.
The fuel pump has......something.......inside it. I'm a bit afraid to take it apart inside because I know what old gas smells like. More of that after the rain stops.
And the timing cover. I'm starting to appreciate the artistry in timing covers. I think I could become a collector of timing covers.

Do you have a shop manual for this truck yet? I think I'd be cruising el internet for one if I was in your position.

I downloaded a bunch of stuff from the site linked to earlier in the thread. I think I have most all of what I need spread over several PDF's. The 345 was used in a lot of different trucks, so even though there doesn't appear to be a comprehensive manual for the whole COE 1600, I can piece together knowledge of the different systems from different books. All in all they are very simple and International seems to have done things is a pretty standard way across the line.

I was just looking through the box of gaskets. The four main ones make up a huge spaghetti of cork. There is something romantic about cork gaskets. SAE bolts and glass fuel bowls and wing windows and cork gaskets. A romance to things that have gone away. When my kids were little we read books. We didn't have tablets or cable, we had hundreds of childrens books. They would cycle through a new favorite every week or so and I'd have a book that I had to read to them over and over until I could recite it with my eyes closed. Occasionally I got to pick a book. I also had my favorites. I would read What Was I Scared off by Dr. Seuss, a wonderfully poetic story of a pair of wandering pants. I would read the Velveteen Rabbit and nearly cry every time. And, when the job was hard and I was feeling especially philosophical about my decision to not work, I would read about Ferdinand. A bull, big and strong, expected to fight. He followed his own path, and ended up under his favorite cork tree.
I think this big strong truck is Ferdinand. I thought I knew how he was going to be. I had plans, ideas. Even with significant use of hammers I can't really change anything about the truck. He's taking his own path and I feel like I'm here to take care of him and let him wander and find his cork tree and the flowers he loves to smell. It might be puttering to Home Depot and a local car show. It might be crisscrossing the country in search of cars to drag home. It might be racing through the desert.
Ferdinand.

One of my favorite books as a kid. I like it.

In reply to mazdeuce:

Yes! Ferdinand is currently my son's favorite book. What a great story and very fitting of the COE. They are making a movie (that appears to be very loosely) based on the book. My son is excited to see it. Almost as excited as I am to see how this project progresses. Keep up the great work and great story telling!

YES!YES!YES! Plus many on Ferdinand! Love it, and very befitting of a COE...

The Giving Tree and Ferdinand must be printed on onion paper.

I've decided to stop lurking and join the forum. I just wanted to wish you and yours the best, as it seems the flooding has been especially bad. I have friends in Houston that we have not heard from and my wife and I are worried that they are in trouble. Good luck Deuce!

In reply to Hammeringman:

Thanks for joining, we're glad to have you. There is a bunch of Houston that is wishing they had more boats and less cars today. There is a lot of checking in going on and we have friends doing more furniture moving that checking their phones this morning.
Work on Ferdinand is officially under a rain delay. I'm glad there were so many of you guys who could appreciate our happy flower smelling bull.

Fist bump for Ferdinand

giving the Texas Horns up for Ferdinand.

any thoughts about adding a snorkel to Ferdinand after this week?

Ferdinand. Such an International name

I know Ben Mod put a set(long horns with lights) on the Vdub....any chance you might consider the same?

In reply to 759NRNG:

Not my style. I dig Ben's work, but that's not really what I do.

mazdeuce wrote: In reply to 759NRNG: Not my style. I dig Ben's work, but that's not really what I do.

Maybe you could make up some fender emblems that spell out Ferdinand in that lovely, flowy, automotive script? Print and cut a pattern on the decal maker and have somebody laser cut them from stainless steel or aluminum, and then polish them. That would be awesome...

3D print the letters to make a pattern, then cast them in aluminum.

Create a logo using electro etching per Keith Tanner perhaps.....something new to add to your bag of tricks

Have computerduecekid check with the local school district (when they are back to open) if they have student copies of win10 free/on the cheap. A lot of times they will have a stock of licenses they can get near to free from MS even if they are running all chrome book, this will open up driver, overclocking, and game install options (go steam!) for him. He can then dual boot Linux/windows. Both are good to know professionally, but knowing windows is a must.

non-hijack: grats on getting all 8 out. That modern eco friendly rust stuff is amazing. You can also try soaking (if your tub is big enough) stuck bolts in that stuff. now it's just iron, you can always make the holes bigger and just get larger pistons.

Love the name.

Incidentally, the onion tainted kid-book in my house is Puff the Magic Dragon.

Great work so far! I'm not sure how I've missed the action since the initial purchase, but posting here will ensure I'm notified of updates.

Current favorites: Dr Seus (any), "The little Blue Truck", and "Good Night Good Night Construction site!".

In reply to tuna55:

How are these even children's books? Who thinks "let's write the saddest story we can think of and illustrate it for children!"

As far as laser cut polished stainless goes, with a truck this size, all that clearly belongs on the mud flaps.

Iowa 80 sells bolt on chrome letters individually. Be warned, though, that once you visit their store or website and own a medium duty truck your wallet is at risk.

Speaking of, if you want a 4" ID 10"x40" stack muffler with a chrome heat shield and top flapper I'll set it aside for you. I did find the amber rotator for the roof I'll get your direction too next time someone is driving back down.