B275 - Reliable tractor to purchase???

Hello guys. I've been considering purchasing a tractor for around our rural 3 acre home. Something to work around the house and snowblow the driveway in the winter. There is an International B275 for sale that I've been considering. Apparently the tractor needs one cylinder sleeve replaced and one rear tire replaced then it will run. Can anyone advise me if these were reliable tractors. Any bad traits of the tractor? How much they are worth? Can you still get parts? etc. Thanks in advance for any replies!

Brian, gas or Diesel. Hope it has power steering?

I guess value will always be debateable. Most spares still appear to be available here in UK but I have no idea about anywhere else. No power steering? you gonna have Mr Universe arms. Seriously they weren't that bad to steer. MTF

Great little tractor, I have four of them in Ag tractor form and also one industrial with a loader and backhoe (3414). Paid less then $1000 for all the ag tractors.

B275 and B414 are almost the same tractors, except the B414 - if diesel - has a bigger engine and also had a power steering option.

Parts are available aftermarket or direct from Case-IH. If you buy parts from Case-IH, they come in a Mahindra box since Mahindra (in India) still makes the same basic tractor new - but with a different engine.

B275s are usually great bargains. Where else are you going to buy a tractor for $1000 or less - with . . . live PTO, live hydraulics, differential lock, four speed trans with hi and low range making it an 8 speed forward and two in reverse, etc. I've run a five foot rototiller, five foot brush hog, and a five foot snowblower with mine - no problem.

If the B275 is a diesel, same engine is used in many other IH machines included crawlers. It will be the BD144 engine and you can buy all the rebuild parts right here on this website. If it's a gas engine - it's a BC144 and not so common, making some parts more pricey and scarce. Carburetor is a British Zenith V or VN - and has nothing to do with the US Zenith company. Sleeves in the gas engine are the same part # as for the BD144 diesel.

One note: If a diesel, the very early B275s have inline CAV injection pumps with air-governors. They are usually horrible starters in cold weather and parts are hard to get. If a later B275, it will have a CAV rotary pump which is a much better starter and parts are common.

Parts are easy to get - here in the USA. Last engine job I did, I bought all the parts on this website. Case also sells them over the counter.