Thinking of pulling my engine out of my 97 International

Just bought it and it runs well but I found a Tock Tock Tock under the rear valve cover of the N-14.

Not the main reason for pulling it though. Mechanic at our company shop told me to run an overhead on it and see if that fixes it.

If not he said bring it into the shop and he could run an injector cutout test on it to see if it could be an injector.

Worst case it could be a camshaft. It has 117500 all original except redone heads 50,000 ago about 5 years ago.Runs strong and doesn't smoke.

But I want to put a new clutch and tranny and motor mounts in it also along with rebuilding the tranny tower.

Thinking its just as easy to pull it. I have a heavy duty 12' tall gantry. The shop I was going to keep the truck in is about 8 inches short to get it in so pulling the motor would give me a nice warm place to pick away at it this winter.

That way I could strip all the accessories and other stuff off the engine and sandblast and paint them with industrial epoxy .

Along with the hood mounts and radiator supports , steering box and etc etc.

Than in the spring I would sandblast the frame and axle and epoxy it and run new air hoses along with new heater hoses and clean up the wiring.

The truck is all in good shape and has not been molested but has 21 year old parts and paint in the engine compartment .

Probably roll in some new bearings, but see no reason for a total liner replacement if it is not smoking and running well.

Maybe new input and output bearings and seals on the tranny while its out.

In the Sping put it all together along with new brake system and shocks along with new steers.

 

Million 175.

 

I agree.

Looking at about 6-7 thousand to do everything I would like to do to it.

Brakes ,drums and chambers and air lines all the way around.

New steers and front shocks.

Clutch and clutch brake ,throw out. Rear engine seal.

Input and output bearing and tower in transmission .

Engine and transmission mounts.

Carrier bearing, possibly u- joints.

Rebuild fifth wheel. One new airbag.

Starter, batteries, and cables.

Heater hoses and belts.

Reseal steering box and check over hoses.

A lot of sandblasting and painting with epoxy


Probably should get a new injector harness. .

Anything else?

 

It has 2 recent airbags and one new one. Needs one more.