I don’t know why either Tom, but apparently very little demand since very few pickups have been produced in Europe overall. Skoda pickups were popular in the late 90s, but other than that there were very low numbers sold of Rabbit pickups, some Fiat, Peugeots and Renaults and maybe a few others. They were not even real trucks. This was the Skoda version.
The real question, to me at least, seems to be why don’t we have small flatbeds in the US? And why doesn’t Navistar sell Scouts, pickups, ambulances & etc. anymore? My grandfather had an IHC pickup.
Rindert
I know of many families who used this as the family rig in the 1960’s up through the early 70’s.
Most using 3rd generation models.
Why IHC vehicles disappeared RindertW. ?
Three reasons centered around the dates of the stopped production Travelalls, Scout II’s, Travelers, and IHC pickups:
The phased in 1975 new emissions and life-of-emmisions systems standards.
The known approaching crash; demanded soft interiors right out to sun visors, and projected rollover standards for enclosed passenger vehicles would have required massive amounts or resource engineering and vender changing.
The sudden doubling in pump gasoline fuel costs.
So the better business decision was to then go H.D. truck deisels.
I had a business partner in the mid-late. 80’s who had been IHC his previous 20 years. He said why have to cater to the demands of individuals for a single sale and post sale requirements when any of the heavy chassis trucks sold for 3X, 4X, in fleet lot quantities resulted in far less warranty whines and pay outs.
Since 1975 all of the emissions and safety standards; testing and certifying had made it exponentially more to introduce for sale any fully compliant passenger vehicle.
S.U.
Just to clarify - Volvo does make trucks and always did, but they were never considered for personal transportation like in the US. A few glimps into the past.
Just be careful of the answers, they are not always correct. They are usually in the ballpark and enough to go track down the subject further. The nice part about gemini, is the links that follow are the ones it used to create the answer so you can see if you trust the references.
It isn’t quite true. For regulatory purposes in the US, the ‘light duty truck’ category includes trucks, minivans and SUVs. They all originally and to some extent still share the same chassis and drivetrain as trucks.
When you hear about Americans affection for Trucks, then go look up the numbers. You see the light duty truck category, and go OMG these guys all drive pickups! The the far left did that, they tried to start cancelling pickup trucks, which started a fight. I bet 98% of the people that were picking a fight didn’t know it included SUVs, and half of those people owned an SUV. (and yes, they are that dumb. That doesn’t mean the other side doesn’t have idiots either. the left tends to attack then stalk you as part of their cancelling.)
sorry. A pick up is normal, of course. Overhere maybe one of thirty cars is a pickup. Mr Wayne showed one of every two cars is a pickup. A lot anyway. Here a rare species. It has to do with freedom maybe. Pickup is an icon of that… dont know, just observe
A truck is a truck whether it’s open in the back or not. They are meant to do work and not have give me a thrill seats and netflix dashboards. I’ve had work vans and pick ups and in my mind they were the same animal. Can’t remember not owning some kind of truck since I was 20 years old.
I’d love to have the stuff you have on your yard on my yard too, minus the snow.
I guess I’m somewhat of a hoarder, and now when I think of it, apparently also love the work that comes with old stuff…
I must be doing it wrong.
Interesting video of how even professional diagnosticians can be stumped by problems. A little long but kind of necessary to get to the simple end which ended up being merely a disconnected ground. I am looking at similar videos because when the weather improves I need to finally get my 2001 Dodge Ram 360 cu in truck working. It’s been mainly a snow plow truck for much of its life and in 2017, while plowing the straps that hold the gas tank on broke. The tank dropped breaking the connection to the top of the fuel pump off. I parked it until summer and then redid the tank straps, put in a new fuel pump. Wouldn’t run. Had spark, had 55 psi on the fuel rail. Started throwing part at it. New injectors, crank and cam sensors. No help. I’m no technician. Don’t really understand electronics. Decided that it must be the ECM, but I have no way to or knowledge of how to test that so I let it sit these years. Now I need it working again and have been watching these videos. Grounds never crossed my mind even though I had a 1987 Pontiac Firebird that quit running out of the blue. Took it to a local shop and after 450 dollars worth of diagnostic fiddling around it turned out to be a broken ground on the frame. That was 450 1992 dollars so probably triple today. Long story but now I have to locate the engine grounds on the Dodge when the mud dries up and hope that was the problem. Don’t have the schematics the video guy has. If any body here does I’d appreciate knowing where they would be located and wonder why they aren’t somewhere in plain site perhaps on the frame where the motor mounts are.
You might start with a good look around the fuel pump. A ground wire, or strap, from the pump area would seem like a good idea, and a likely spot for trouble. No personal experience on my part, but trying to be helpful anyway
TomH. make up a 20-30 foot long 10ga jumper wire with alligator clips.
Go directly from the battery negative terminal to anywhere, any under 60 amp draw device you want device to verify has a good ground circuit.
ANY change . . . any improvement and you have a grounding problem.
NO change, that part of the circuit is O.K.
The same jumper can be used with an added ATC fuse holder for direct battery powering to prove to.
Do a lot of these professionally and you will want to invest in a PowerProbe kit. In the past Marcus has pictured up his.
Don’t dink around with VOM’s for this type of investigation. Wastes a lot of time.
S.U.
The newer advanced Power Probe kits can confuse non-electrical people.
Go for the older basic:
