AL-160 International

bobsboy

nothing wrong with you starting up a new topic, dont be shy go for it.

Trevor

Here it is as a grain truck legal at 6 tonne but I did take up to 8 tonne to town on it. In 1998 I carted 252 tonne of wheat to Millmerran silos a round trip of over 50 kms four trips a day about forty trips.

g'day elly .. a good effort from her back then, and looks like you might have a soft spot for the old girl....

What a noble looking beast.

As to the paint, how about,
Lanolin Spray Lube? I bought a tin of it from a marine shop. It's made in Australia from Australian sheep. It sounded kinda weird but hey, its Australian, so I bought it.

Anyway, aside from claiming to do a better job that petrolium based "makes things work" sprays, it also sort of claimed to be a protectant for metal, paint and chrome. . . in the harsh marine environment.

Ive used it around and about the car and it dries, as you might expect, a bit well, greasy (uh yeah duh).

I recently fired/ flushed some of it into the guts of my rattling and crunching air conditioner clutch (fix it or have sex I say) and hey presto. [smiley=2vrolijk_08.gif] well okay, it lubes good.

Anyway, how about old paint and metal? (Does lanolin shine?) [smiley=laugh.gif]
-b

lanolin used to put a good shine on the old blundstones back in the days of the old manual woolpress, used to have to get up in the press and stomp fleeces down to get the max in a bale.

Elgindale, I take it by all those trips to the silo that year that there is no question about the famous International reliability with your truck, long make you keep it working!!

Elingdale, great pix. I love seeing the old stuff hard at work.

Bobsboy, lanolin don't shine. I used it on some old oil cans I wanted to preserve and they just ended up sticky.

Old transmission fluid brings a nice 'lived in' shine to old paint.

I havn't ever used lanolin but I have done the interior of this truck with fisholene to try and protect it I also use it on the outside of my 1930 chev but it has no paint left .They stay shiny for a couple of months after.This truck is a good add for International reliability as the only time it stopped on me was with fuel vapourization on a 45c degree day. As to having a soft spot yes I do especially as the only truck I had before it was one of those gutless unreliable V8 English Ford thames.

Gutless unreliable v8 Ford Thames?
Please no swearing on here.
I'am half way thru restoring one.
Ahh what a beautiful English truck.
And i also love Bedfords.
Cheers Kevin.

I do love your International though.
Keep those pics coming.
Cheers Kevin.

Sorry Kevin but if you do buy a similar age International you will know what I mean I also owned an American Ford truck at the same time much more power that the little English Ford and I do regret selling the Thames it had character.