Hello-
I've owned a '73 IH 1210 [with a 345 and an automatic] for about 25 years. Sadly, it's been sitting out in the back 40 for about the last 18 of those years with a broken U-joint and burned [?] tranny. I've decided to either junk it or try to resurrect it for use as a firewood/plow truck. Stock bed long gone, had a deteriorating all-wood 10' flatbed on it when I got it, it's only gone downhill these past 2 decades...if I raise it from the dead I'll probably put a metal flatbed on it.
I'm wanting to find out which transmissions were used on these. Been told they used the same 727 as Scouts but really have no clue-about the only rigs I have some hands-on knowledge of are Datsun 521/620/720 series pickups-and THAT was 20 years back...
Are there any easy Ford/Chevy/Dodge tranny swaps available if I can't locate a good used 727? Or, how hard are the stock ones to rebuild? OR, is a swap to a manual trans reasonably doable?
I'm not wanting to sink more than about $500 in parts and maybe 30-40 hours of time into this thing, I still have Datsun and Ranger 4x4's to use for pickup chores but when I was out looking at the ol' 1210 last week to see if I might be able to cannibalize the power steering for use on an old Massey-Harris 44 tractor I sorta had a nostalgic urge to drive it again. Strange how inanimate hunks of steel can get under a guy's skin, huh?
Saw something that said it might be worth quite a bit more than scrap value on another site so I'm sure I could choke back my emotions and part with the old girl in one piece for the right price...I'm located in NW Montana, BTW.
