1946 International Harvester I-4

This is my great-grandfather's '46 International Harvester I-4 that he bought new. My grandfather received it when my great-grandfather passed away, and my grandfather gave it to me a few weeks ago. I've been working on it and got it to run for the first time in 15 years the day before I took this video. It runs great and is a blast to drive.

Work done so far: plugs, wires, coil, distributor cap, rotor, filed the points, tightened the belts, lubed everything, and rebuilt the carb.

Upcoming work to date: rewire entire tractor, new front tires, all new gauges, new seat and fab new seat hanger bracket.

Thanks for watching and comment if you like it!

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• harvester
• IH
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• antique
• vintage
• farm
• old
• machinery
• I-H
• Farmall
• McCormick
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• W-4
• I-4

[OzzInter]

Good tractor to restore, it has the same engine and many components as the Farmall H.

My grandfather had a 1944 W-4 which was very similar to yours.

The W-4 was the "wheatland" model.

The I-4 was the industrial model, although a lot ended up on farms. There was an O-4 orchard model with a special streamlined cowling to make it slip through branches without snaggiing!

All great tractors!

W-

[SummitDynamics]

Lucky you! It is hard enough to find a good tractor let alone made in the U.S.A. for under 7-10 thousand and it was given to you. Maybe you can pass that to you Grand Children one of these years as well. Good Luck.

[culp7]

Sweet

[bluegrass93]

That's cool!