Tru Power Engine overhaul kit

8Ner2 · Sep 30, 2016

I am looking for a review for the Tru Power engine rebuild kit for a Ford 8N. Anyone have an opinion of this brand?
Thanks in advance for your input.

Steve@Advance · Oct 1, 2016

I have no opinion on any particular brand, but have never been a fan of rebuild kits.

Until the engine is opened up, inspected, measured, and machine work done, there is no way to know what is needed. You end up paying for parts that may not be needed, wrong size parts... Chances are wherever you bought the kit will not be willing to take back the wrong parts, you end up having to buy duplicates on top of what has already been spent!

Moonlite37 · Oct 1, 2016

When I worked for Ford we had a lot of bore sizes and sometimes there would be more than one bore size on the same block as many have been bored and there are a few that were run without sleeves. I know nothing about that brand but would only have sleeves fitted to the block by a machine shop that could bore if necessary. Other makes most kits work out well. Early ford engine is among the hardest to rebuild in a small shop. We had several makes and sizes of sleeves for these engines and a boring bar. Some of these old Ford engines had been overhauled a dozen times and we did not know what had been done to them. Still I like them!

Leroy · Oct 1, 2016

Wait untill you have engine down to order parts and you will not have the problems mentioned by the other posters. There is just the thin wall sleeve, thick wall sleeve that would be different except if front mount or side mount distributor.

Moonlite37 · Oct 1, 2016

We had sleeves that would fit a bore that had to be bored after being run without sleeves. I think the manufacturer was Thompson and a few 000 bigger than anything we got from Perfect Circle, Ford, or any other. I recall other shops coming to our parts looking for a Thompson sleeve. I still say an older Ford is the hardest to overhaul. This has been over 50 years ago because I left in 1963 and went across the street for Allis Chalmers.

billfromwisconsin · Oct 1, 2016

I ordered a kit from here, only problem with it was the oil pump. there are different thickness oil pump as well as sleeve difference. The problem i had with the oil pump was the
gears were to big in diameter for the housing. When we found it, they sent another set, but it was still the same.
Generally I have had good luck with parts from here. I think i have done 6 or 7 engines with kits from here.

Leroy · Oct 2, 2016

With that oil pump the only way you would have found out about that ordering individual parts was if there was different ones listed so that you would have had to measure before ordering. Did kit mention different models-serial numbers?

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