I got a nice email from a lady named Sally in Wisconsin this afternoon asking me for patience, as she’s a one-woman band handling all of the lineset requests from the Historical Society. I sent her my payment with a nice note and was immediately rewarded with a pair of lineset scans for the 800.

Archaeology on trucks this old can always be a bit of a toss-up, so I worked with the most obvious visual reference: the body color. A little digging decodes the last full line on the list to 4353YL, or Tahitian Yellow according to the paint chart I’ve got here. The second bit of info confirms it: This truck was ordered by Allied Equipment Co. in Madera, CA on September 1, 1966.

Using some helpful lists to decode the rest of the info, I learned it was built with a IH 196 V4 Canada Export Low Compression engine, T90 Borg Warner 3sp transmission, DANA 27 Power-Lok front axle, Dana 44 Power-Lok rear axle, 10″ clutch, Dana 20 transfer case, cab top, cigar lighter, left armrest, and floor mats. And that was it! This truck was optioned even simpler than the Travelall was.

This also makes my tribulations with starting the engine begin to make a little more sense; if it was designed with low compression to start and Dan blew out the rings, this thing is going to be lots of fun to get (and keep) running.