Need help with my first binder "build"

[chinquipin]

Ok, So i just purchased my first International! It's a 66 1100. As of now it isn't running and i'm sure it has brake problems (left front completely locked up). Just curious to what advice you guys have for me? Anyone did a disc brake conversion? Frame or front clip swap? My plans for the truck are to get it running and stopping. Then maybe cleaning it up a little and lowering it.

sorry for the crappy pic

[scoutboy74]

Welcome and congrats on your purchase. The first piece of advice is to read until your eyes bleed. Wipe the blood on your sleeve and read some more. This forum has been alive darn near since Owl Gorz invented the interwebs all by his lonesome way back in 19 awt 8. Pretty much every question, rhyme, and allegory regarding these rigs has been posited and discussed (often multiple times) hereabouts. The search function is your friend. Then acquaint yourself with the various Light Line vendors, most of whom have a link here on the home page. Find one (or five or ten) you like and order yourself a factory service manual for your truck from one of them...and you guessed it...read some more until your eyes pop outta your skull.

[WRENCH MAN]

Yep, the answer is probably already here somewhere, looks like you got a decent base to start with?, jack it up and start tearing it apart to see what needs fixed!

[jauringer]

Very nice ride! Welcome to the commune!

Just a tip on the search function. If you have trouble finding what you need on the in house function, using google to search Binderplanet can be a little better.

Type:

site:binderplanet.com search term

To make it easier, you can just type a random search term in, hit enter, and then save it as a favorite, That way you can just click the link, change the search term and hit enter.

Click here for a link thats already typed out for you.

[chinquipin]

Thanks for the input guys! It seems to be a pretty solid old truck. It's a 6 cylinder 3 speed. Someone has starting converting the 3spd on the column to floor shift and never finished and supposedly lost interest and it's been sitting about 10yrs. They have also swapped the rearend for a 9 inch sometime in its life. Engine isn't stuck. I'm gonna try to start tearing into it in a couple of weeks to see what all i'm up against. If it turns out that It needs a lot to get it running and stopping, i will probably clip it with a chevrolet clip of some sort and use chevrolet motor and tranny (just because i've built chevrolets all my life and have plenty of parts). Hopefully it doesn't come to that though. Thanks again!!

[chinquipin]

Just a tip on the search function. If you have trouble finding what you need on the in house function, using google to search Binderplanet can be a little better.

Type:

site:binderplanet.com search term

Thanks for the tip! Didn't realize you could do that
That seems to work much better than the search button here!!

[ragtopkid]

Drum brakes aren't that bad ran them on 53 F-100 with a 390 and c-6 tranny.