Gnarlodious
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My first post! Grandpa's big baby, his beloved International TD-9 hasn't run in at least 25 years:
This was a farm tractor, it was never used much. After grandpa died, my uncle would start it up periodically and let it idle because "it's good for the engine". Now my uncle has died and it falls to me to decide the fate of this monster. Unfortunately the engine doesn't rotate. I suspect my uncle let it idle to death with no coolant. There is quite a lot of caked crud on the inside bottom of the radiator, and my grandpa always said it had a chronic leak. Today I looked at the injectors and saw this black stuff had come out, drained down and decades later is a brittle crust:
Does it look like an overheating incident? Should I take out those two injectors for a closer look? What's the worst case scenario? I can take off the head if need be, but I am trying to decide if this machine is even worth fixing.
Thanks for any advice. I am located in Idaho, far north.
This post was edited by Gnarlodious on 06/06/2023 at 07:08 pm.
This was a farm tractor, it was never used much. After grandpa died, my uncle would start it up periodically and let it idle because "it's good for the engine". Now my uncle has died and it falls to me to decide the fate of this monster. Unfortunately the engine doesn't rotate. I suspect my uncle let it idle to death with no coolant. There is quite a lot of caked crud on the inside bottom of the radiator, and my grandpa always said it had a chronic leak. Today I looked at the injectors and saw this black stuff had come out, drained down and decades later is a brittle crust:
Does it look like an overheating incident? Should I take out those two injectors for a closer look? What's the worst case scenario? I can take off the head if need be, but I am trying to decide if this machine is even worth fixing.
Thanks for any advice. I am located in Idaho, far north.
This post was edited by Gnarlodious on 06/06/2023 at 07:08 pm.