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Hi, Russ. If you REALLY want to save yourself some expense and headaches, write off what you paid for that TD24, push the mongrel thing into a deep hole and bury it. International never made a good crawler bigger than a TD9 and the bigger they got, the worse they got. All the TD24's I ever saw were direct drive. If you want to run the Cummins without the turbo, you will need to change the injectors and pump to a non-turbo-ed configuration. This would probably be a smart move as the TD24 originally came out with a 140 hp International diesel engine and still managed to tear up final drives and transmissions at an alarming rate. So much so that it only lasted in production for about 8 years. God knows what a fully rated 290 would do to it. One little deatil that you may have to be careful about. I seem to remember that the TD24's came out with an automatically applied parking brake. I think this came on when the machine was de-clutched, remained on if the clutch was engaged without a gear being selected, but was automatically dis-engaged if the clutch was engaged with a gear selected. I don't know how it was actuated but if it is as I seem to remember, you will probably need to pay some attention to it when connecting the Cummins engine. IF you just want it to poke about a small property or to take to shows and try to brag about it, you may get away with it. If you want the thing to do any serious work, be prepared to put your hand in your pocket pretty regularly and pretty deeply. Best of luck. You have a wonderful day. Best wishes. Deas Plant.
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