IH 151 combine

Today one my day off I worked on my 151. It was given to me by a neighbor who bought it from another neighbor back in the early 70s when he started cutting their crop for them. He leases that farm now but my neighbor never used the combine and it has sat in the Quonset at the same farm in same spot all these years.

I changed the oil in it and since the gas tank was shot I did the same trick I used on my JD 55. Took the outboard motor gas tank, sat it on top of the grain tank, and plumbed the line right into the carb. Tried starting it and the problem was the separator belt has shrunk over the years so much that it was trying to turn the whole machine over. So I took a belt off the right side of the combine that ran most of the separator and the engine turned over fast enough to start. The cylinder/beater and elevators still turned however. I let it run for about 5 minutes and the oil pressure gradually climbed up to almost 30 psi.

I shut it off and I called my neighbor up to tell him I got it running. He was so excited he drove down to were I was at. Started it up again for him and let run for about 10 minutes. It pretty much made his day. Told me he wished his old man was around to see it run because back in the day they ran IH combines. Next week I hope to drive it home. Need to air up the back tires, bring some hydraulic fluid so I can left the header up, and continue to free up some of the linkage.

You need to bring that International pickup home, too. Is it an L-110, L-120 or what?

Does the 151 have the 263 engine. I like that pickup also.

The pickup is a L-120. My neighbor has already spoken for it. There is also a 1950s Dodge grain truck, Massey Super 27, and a IH W9 which I get first shot at if the owner wants to sell. I don't know for sure what engine the combine has but I assumed it was the 263.

Thats a sweet 151..A neighbor used to have one..