A few questions about my 24 foot International box truck engine.

First question is the wet sleeve liners, and whether the seals at the bottom of the liners, which are just O rings...? are leaking? No indication that anything is leaking, and I understand that you send in an oil sample, but a few questions I have, since the truck has been sitting since August. Do I need to run the engine to stir up the oil or can I just get a sample in for testing, and how much oil is needed to comprise a sample? The truck is a 1993 International with a 360 and less than 225,000 miles. It's the fact that it's 25 years old was my concern with respect to the wet sleeve liner seals. I bought the truck in Hermiston Oregon and drove it home to Sandpoint Idaho. The truck performed beautifully, but needs an oil change right now. In the Spring, I plan on dropping in new batteries and hope the truck starts having sat so long. I topped the fuel tank off, but it was already getting cold before I did top it off. The truck came with a partial jug of ant freeze coolant and there is no doubt that coolant is leaking around the coolant over run tank sight glass. The coolant filter looks fairly recent and so I'm hoping the DCA levels are up to snuff. I was planning on spinning the coolant filter off to see if it still had the "pill" inside or not, but how does one keep from losing all the coolant? It looks as though there is a ball valve near by, but only a shaft sticking out, and not very far either. The shaft does have a hole laterally through it as if it is intended for sticking something through it to turn it? Any input would be appreciated, especially if it puts my mind at ease! Thank you!

 

Oh yes, this is a Budget rental truck, at one time anyways, and seems well maintained, though I have no idea how long it's been since it was a fleet vehicle. No idea how long Budget would have run the truck before selling it.

 

Honestly, I see no indications that the liners or the seals are leaking. I was just curious more than anything. I'm aware of the liner erosion and am kind of biting my nails over that as well. I drove it from Hermiston to home and it hasn't been run since that time.

 

Well, the anti freeze jug tells me I'm using it in my truck. It has air conditioning and I ran it while driving it back, about a 5 hour trip and it didn't use any anti freeze pushing it fairly hard. I was just readying myself for at least an in frame rebuilt based on the age of the engine, and not so much the mileage. I need to get that sight glass leak fixed. It had a fairly good amount there, and I believe that's where it's coming from. The radiator looks great.

 

It runs so fantastic that as you say, I'm not going there unless it does have anti freeze in the oil. Come Spring, I'll fire it up and look in to it. I just need some warmer weather for my 51 year old bones!