[1973 I-H 1210 4x4 Pickup Owner Joins the Forum]

TYVM for fast response, Moses-I'll look around for a 727 Torqueflite.  Any ballpark guess as to what one in useable condition ought to sell for?  I see that the brake cylinders aren't exactly cheap...

 

Dean

[1973 I-H 1210 4x4 Pickup Owner Joins the Forum]

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.