Been a while since I posted anything on here, but I found something I had to share. Which I do believe is a rather scarce item.
At our local tractor show, where we do a display of cub stuff, in the vendor area low and behold I about fell off my cub. There was an actual international harvester U-1 power unit for sale. Not a baler or combine takeoff but the actual U1 engine.
Well I got it bought and picked it up the next morning. It was only then that I read the tag and it is the 22nd one off the line serial number 522 with the block s.n. being
U CUBM549 G
Well let's just say I am tickled pink.
Me and another guy tinked with it that afternoon, no spark, there was a magneto guy there at the show. I took it to him to look at and he said coil was bad but everything thing else was in good shape. So I had him go through it as he wasn't busy, a little saltier than I would have liked, but it works. Put it on added some gas and we got it to fire up,
wished we had taken some footage of it. It came with a flat belt pulley so I might try running dads #30 corn sheller with it at a show.A fellow cubber,
Russel Foster
