My Dad had a two ton flat bed in the early sixties with this engine. The guys in the shop used it to haul Fork trucks. I can remember the guys talking about how well it would pull the hills as compared to the early fifties International that it replaced.

IIRC, the downside to this design, albeit an obscure and rarely encountered issue, was that it had heads and block similar to the 348/409 which required a back cut when boring. There was no combustion chamber in the head, rather the block deck was at an angle. The back cut had to be made with a boring bore to allow a ring compressor to fit in place during assembly. Not a big deal, but was an idiosynchrocy of the breed.

Larry

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