diff --git a/x-pack/plugin/ccr/src/test/java/org/elasticsearch/xpack/CcrIntegTestCase.java b/x-pack/plugin/ccr/src/test/java/org/elasticsearch/xpack/CcrIntegTestCase.java
index 9e5137d3cd1af..6ec36fe4762ff 100644
--- a/x-pack/plugin/ccr/src/test/java/org/elasticsearch/xpack/CcrIntegTestCase.java
+++ b/x-pack/plugin/ccr/src/test/java/org/elasticsearch/xpack/CcrIntegTestCase.java
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@
 import org.elasticsearch.action.admin.cluster.settings.ClusterUpdateSettingsRequest;
 import org.elasticsearch.action.admin.indices.get.GetIndexResponse;
 import org.elasticsearch.action.admin.indices.refresh.RefreshResponse;
+import org.elasticsearch.action.admin.indices.settings.put.UpdateSettingsRequest;
 import org.elasticsearch.action.admin.indices.stats.ShardStats;
 import org.elasticsearch.action.search.SearchRequest;
 import org.elasticsearch.action.search.SearchResponse;
@@ -27,6 +28,7 @@
 import org.elasticsearch.cluster.metadata.IndexMetaData;
 import org.elasticsearch.cluster.metadata.MetaData;
 import org.elasticsearch.cluster.routing.ShardRouting;
+import org.elasticsearch.cluster.routing.UnassignedInfo;
 import org.elasticsearch.cluster.routing.allocation.DiskThresholdSettings;
 import org.elasticsearch.cluster.service.ClusterService;
 import org.elasticsearch.common.Priority;
@@ -138,6 +140,18 @@ public final void startClusters() throws Exception {
         assertAcked(followerClient().admin().cluster().updateSettings(updateSettingsRequest).actionGet());
     }
 
+    /**
+     * Follower indices don't get all the settings from leader, for example 'index.unassigned.node_left.delayed_timeout'
+     * is not replicated and if tests kill nodes, we have to wait 60s by default...
+     */
+    protected void disableDelayedAllocation(String index) {
+        UpdateSettingsRequest updateSettingsRequest = new UpdateSettingsRequest(index);
+        Settings.Builder settingsBuilder = Settings.builder();
+        settingsBuilder.put(UnassignedInfo.INDEX_DELAYED_NODE_LEFT_TIMEOUT_SETTING.getKey(), 0);
+        updateSettingsRequest.settings(settingsBuilder);
+        assertAcked(followerClient().admin().indices().updateSettings(updateSettingsRequest).actionGet());
+    }
+
     @After
     public void afterTest() throws Exception {
         ensureEmptyWriteBuffers();
@@ -350,6 +364,7 @@ protected String getIndexSettings(final int numberOfShards, final int numberOfRe
             {
                 builder.startObject("settings");
                 {
+                    builder.field(UnassignedInfo.INDEX_DELAYED_NODE_LEFT_TIMEOUT_SETTING.getKey(), 0);
                     builder.field("index.number_of_shards", numberOfShards);
                     builder.field("index.number_of_replicas", numberOfReplicas);
                     for (final Map.Entry<String, String> additionalSetting : additionalIndexSettings.entrySet()) {
diff --git a/x-pack/plugin/ccr/src/test/java/org/elasticsearch/xpack/ccr/FollowerFailOverIT.java b/x-pack/plugin/ccr/src/test/java/org/elasticsearch/xpack/ccr/FollowerFailOverIT.java
index 6685776e9805d..d58a2d0a0f18d 100644
--- a/x-pack/plugin/ccr/src/test/java/org/elasticsearch/xpack/ccr/FollowerFailOverIT.java
+++ b/x-pack/plugin/ccr/src/test/java/org/elasticsearch/xpack/ccr/FollowerFailOverIT.java
@@ -85,6 +85,7 @@ public void testFailOverOnFollower() throws Exception {
         follow.getFollowRequest().setMaxOutstandingWriteRequests(randomIntBetween(1, 10));
         logger.info("--> follow params {}", Strings.toString(follow.getFollowRequest()));
         followerClient().execute(PutFollowAction.INSTANCE, follow).get();
+        disableDelayedAllocation("follower-index");
         ensureFollowerGreen("follower-index");
         awaitGlobalCheckpointAtLeast(followerClient(), new ShardId(resolveFollowerIndex("follower-index"), 0), between(30, 80));
         final ClusterState clusterState = getFollowerCluster().clusterService().state();
@@ -143,6 +144,7 @@ public void testFollowIndexAndCloseNode() throws Exception {
         followRequest.getFollowRequest().setMaxWriteRequestSize(new ByteSizeValue(randomIntBetween(1, 4096), ByteSizeUnit.KB));
         followRequest.getFollowRequest().setMaxOutstandingWriteRequests(randomIntBetween(1, 10));
         followerClient().execute(PutFollowAction.INSTANCE, followRequest).get();
+        disableDelayedAllocation("index2");
         logger.info("--> follow params {}", Strings.toString(followRequest.getFollowRequest()));
 
         int maxOpsPerRead = followRequest.getFollowRequest().getMaxReadRequestOperationCount();