Posted by Richard Maurer on July 29, 2012 at 16:15:17 from (216.137.136.147):
I"m not saying the 560 wasn't a trouble maker. In my opinion these failures were an insignificant chapter in the history of International Harvester. The TD-24 was dogged with final drive problems for most of it's life; for what it cost to repair TD-24 finals, you could practically buy a new 560. There weren't any alligator master links or hydraulic track adjusters back then. It was all bull work. The TD-24 was built for 12 years, with only minor changes, and had the horsepower turned up twice during it"s production run. No significant changes were made in the final drive design thru '59. I know this personally, because we used parts from a TD-25 to repair the finals on our '53 TD-24. The head cracking is another thing. The TD-24 had to be carefully shut down by a competent operator, or you lost two heads. That problem also wasn't solved until late in life. The cost of two heads and the labor was probably directly equivalent to installing a ring and pinion in a 560 Yet, the 560, made about 4 years, is repeatedly blamed for the failure of International Harvester, whom some people think is out of business. Why?
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