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Originally posted by legion
Those diesels are sleeved, right?
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Mine is now sleeved in one cylinder. Unfortunately they are not fitted w/ replaceable sleeves as Matt describes, but the common repair for a destroyed cylinder is to sleeve it at a machine shop, which is what I did.
And Jurgen, I should have put in a Cummins. Not sure what they go for used or how tough they are to find, and of course I did not know about that option in the beginning. It has been a learning curve w/ these trucks, as w/ anything else, and I've been putting in my time on PSD boards around the net. I think that they call what we are talking about a "Fummins".
If I have time today I am going to figure out how to make one of those personal web sites where I can post a photo album/diary of this project since I have dozens of photos, (I am pretty meticulous), that way I can caption each photo and people can whip through them if they care to.
A few highlights, here is a connecting rod and it is the desirable forged type used only through mid 2000, (mine is a late '99 or '99.5). And no, I do not have small hands:
These motors are made by International, not Ford, but of course they are made to Ford's specifications in certain areas. Variations of my motor are used in everything from Fedex trucks to school busses to *you name it*. Probably the military uses them somewhere. There is also a marine version. The engineering is impressive, here is a massive 4-bolt main cap:
