Well. It has been awhile but today I got everything back together and the truck runs great. The local carquest machine shop overhauled the engine. They had to sleeve 2 cylinders. Number 2 where the rod went through and 3 where it hit enough to crack the cylinder wall. They turned the crank down .10 and the cylinders were honed and new rings installed. All new inserts(2 new rods) all new gaskets of course. They also cleaned up the flywheel. The head was cleaned with new valve stem seals and seats. Now the downside is the starter is acting up, so we have been starting with the hand crank. Compression is definitely up. I planned to drive it over to the folks place, but the original ignition switch has literally called apart, so I will get a replacement tomorrow and pull the starter and go through it. Purrs like a kitten though. Happy to have it back to being roadworthy.
Today's work was installing clutch and pressure plate, trans, driveshaft, pto shaft, reconnecting all of the control linkages for the handbrake and hydraulic hoist, footbrake and clutch pedal(will adjust tomorrow). Pics to come. By the way international harvester dark gray looks very close to the original 216 gray.
