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Four years ago I put $2000 into rebuilding an IHC 300. They sell for about $2000 at auctions. Today I am picking it up again from the shop, the rings never seated right, it smoked horribly. Also needed the crankshaft reground, so probably near $1000 bill? Don't know yet. Yes, I put too much into this tractor on the one hand. On the other hand, with the working TA 10 speed with on-the-go hi-lo shifting, independant pto, and Fast hitch, this is an extremely useful tractor to me, baling with the small square baler all summer, grinding feed once a week all winter, and shelling ear corn. It is the perfect match for those implements in my operation. What would I buy to replace it? For $3000, I would be buying someone else's worn out tractor. I'd be looking at a rebuild in a couple years anyhow. Or a bad tranny, or ..... And, I don't think I can find these same features that I really use for that amount of money. So, for me it was pretty simple. Rebuild. Then I know what I have, what shape the rest of the tractor is in, and so on. For me, rebuilding was the right way to go. Hopefully this time the rebuild will 'take'. I don't know what went wrong 4 years ago, I varied speeds & ran it fuill throttle for a time on some operations..... Mechanic says it shouldn't have been a problem, just one of those things. --->Paul
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