<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">IH truck gas engines also had quite hard heads without inserts, hard enough that reportedly some shops thought there were already inserts in them when they tried to work on them. Few problems seem to have developed in the years since lead was dropped. I believe it is the material used in the castings, not heat treating. But these engines were designed for extended use at wide open throttle in trucks like the Loadstar so they are not stressed in smaller trucks like pickups and Scouts.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">Different Divisions of IH, different foundries, different engineers. But perhaps they did talk to each other.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">Howard</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Dec 4, 2020 at 1:59 PM Jim Becker <<a href="mailto:mr.jebecker@gmail.com">mr.jebecker@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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<div>The only reference I found that directly addresses this is the I&T Shop
Manual. I presume it is accurate although it is not first-hand IH
material. According to it, the M, 6, and 9 series non-Diesels used inserts
for the exhaust valve seats. The H did not but the Super H and Super 4
series did. The Diesel M, 6, and 9 series did not use inserts.</div>
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<div>The higher compression of a Diesel translates into a higher temperature in
the chamber prior to ignition. I don’t know if that translates to higher
temperature after ignition and completion of the power stroke. I suspect
not. Diesel fuel itself isn’t that great of a lubricant but is a better
one than gasoline. That may make enough difference for IH to have decided
to not use hardened inserts in Diesels. Nothing in the above eliminates
the possibility of hardening the seats that were ground into the Diesel
heads. IH was big on induction hardening and applied it to a lot of
things. I am not aware of them heat treating cast iron parts.</div>
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