1952 Chevy 3100/ gleaner

Sitting on s10 frame with Chevy 350 industrial out of a M Gleaner combine

One day having a cold snack with grandpa we decided that our old M gleaner combine engine would make a great truck engine an both were curious to see how the carb would do since it does not have an accelerator pump. The combine had an industrial 350 Chevy 4 bolt main. Belt driven governor, two barrel carb. Trouble was we needed a light truck to test it. Came across a 52 Chevy truck basket case. Traded a buddy a 350 sbc tbi for it and a s10 frame minus the rear diff. We loaded the truck parts in my truck and neither of us had a trailer at the time. We ended up lifting the s10 frame up off the ground and hooked the rear cross member over a trailer hitch ball an towed it 7 miles to the farm. I threw together an old nv3500 and used an old rad from an impala. Found an rusted out 65 Chevy step side box that the tail lights had rusted holes right “threw” the fenders. So instead of patching them I had thought of using 2006 Silverado tail lights, flipped them upside down and swapped left for right and cut the holes bigger. Fit good enough! I decided to raise the box floor up in the middle and decide to make the Center hump into a tool box since the single cab has no room. I had an old pair of hookerheaders that didn’t fit, cut the flanges off and welded a straight pipe down the entire head and an elbow down to a y. Then from there on into a 4inch old dmax exhaust tail pipe to a 5inch tip. Took the governor off the engine and put an accessory drive off a 93 tbi sbc. Used a Astro van steering column and bucket seats along with the brake booster. Had trouble with the hydraulic clutch line I tryed using from the 93 donor, was too short. Made a new line and on a road trip bout 3 hours away the heat softened the line enough that when I depressed clutch it blew a hole threw it. Had to drive home with out a clutch. So if your curious I can’t brag on top speed of this truck. But if drove nice it does get 35 to 38 mpg on highway. Not so good in the city. Something to do with never growing up’ It does has a slight hesitation off the line but it makes up for it. It has a bad habit of shutting off and dieseling same as it did in the combine. And when it doesn’t hit the dirt cause the Fawker is sending a fire ball threw that exhaust and it comes out louder then a canon! With the ar rims total budge was just over a grand with all the trading. Grandpa was able to take it
For a drive before he passed. N I was able to take it to his funeral I just parked it down the street incase it back fired haha.