The H still holds the record for the best selling row crop ever (8N wasn't really a row crop). There are ample reasons for that. I have a 1940 model, and that is the best selling year model of the H. The H is also the best selling model IH ever built, with over 428,000 built if you include the Super H, which most do now days since it was really just a simple upgrade of the H, basically just adding the live hydro and a bit more go power, (by contrast, the 10-20 someone mentioned above only reached slightly over 200,000 units). The next best seller for IH was the M, which had more power, but little else. Both models were designed from the start to use the same implements, benefiting the small farmer, the big farmer and IH all three.
The H is super easy to work on, parts are readily available and inexpensive too! For instance, I rebuilt the engine on mine for less than $500 total, with me doing all the labor that is. I needed new pistons, sleeves, wrist pins, retainers, bearings, gaskets of course, and the head needed to be completely rebuilt as well. That meant new valves, springs, locks, retainers, guides and the installation for all. I bought complete kits to do this off eBay, and the engine kit is still on there for $310 now, (I paid $300), but I can't seem to find the head kit right now. If I had it to do all over again, I would pop for one of the more complete kits with everything instead of trying to put them together myself, that way I would be sure of getting all that I needed, instead of being in the middle of it and finding out I needed one more item that always seems to invariably be back-ordered till next year! Those kits run around the $500 range, again on eBay. I love my H, and will gladly do it all over again if I had too.
The BEFORE photo:
The AFTER photo:
As you can plainly see, I am glutton for punishment! But I had a GREAT TIME!!!
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