International 9300 Restoration

Looks good! IMO that was one of the best looking trucks IH ever built. I like the roomyness in the cab too,I drove a 9400 for awhile. Much better than a Pete,KW and especially an R model Mack.

I agree. I really like the looks of the older internationals. Some of the newer ones aren't all that bad either.

Here's a couple pictures of the rest of our trucks just for the hell of it

Our three lowboy trucks. 9900ix, 9900i, and a 9300




The rest of our truck tractors. Three 9200's, and three 9900i's

How do you feel the 9300 compares to the later 9900 and 9400 series? I feel the 9300 (and its sister 9600,9700,9800) were stout biult and had more crossmemebers and stronger frames then the later trucks, which were trying to compete with Freightliner for the fleet market. I know I put my 9600 though hell heavy-hauling and never had a failure. How to the new ones hold up in the dirt business?

I think that the old 9300s hold up just as well as the newer 9900s. They each have their own problem. The only major long term issues we've ever had with the 9300s is the double frame and the hoods cracking apart. The rust just builds up between the frame rails at the top and pushes them apart, and the hoods always seem like they were cracking all around the mounting brackets on the front and falling apart. But this 9300 that we restored spent 989,000 miles (since brand new) as a gravel truck with Hendrickson Walking Beam, and that can really be hard on stuff. I would say it did pretty well. Since then we've had a couple of the newer Paystar 5000s and none of them held up like this 9300 did. They were all traded off around 600,000 except for one of them that we still have. We had another 9300 that was almost a sister to this one, and it was tipped on it's side 2 times before we traded it. The problems we have with the newer trucks is mainly computer related. Other than that they hold up pretty well to the abuse of dirt work. Our 9900s have Caterpillar C15s and ISX Cummins motors, and the 9200s have ISM Cummins. The old 9300 lowboy has a N14 Celect Plus. Then we have a newer Paystar 5000 dump truck with a 20 cubic yard box, air suspension, and an ISM, and a 7700 dump truck with walking beam, 18 cubic yard box, and a C13. Our oldest truck, besides the 9300 in this thread, is a 1994 International 2574 dump truck.

I always liked the rollsroyce grill on those trucks..and the 3406B,,great engine,they were so simple. My last 3406b was a 400 air to air with a 15 direct back in '87,, usually grossing about 140k on a 5 legger it tracked like it was on rails,loved it.. For cold starts I had a few cheaters,,2 block heaters, a pan heater and battery blankets,,

Nice job on the refurbish. I just look at that Hendrickson Walking Beam Suspension and my back hurts. I was a class 8 truck suspension mechanic for many years and i rebushed a lot of different suspensions and the walking beam was the most reliable, but rough riding as all get out. Mack camal back was another Dinasour