Just Brought it home!

[5acrehome]

Amazing to me find. One owner (well his father bought it new in '51 anyhow), Garage kept all original cub. I HAD to bring it home so my children can experience the times I remember mowing with one of these at my grandfathers as a teen. Cant wait to share an experience from my childhood with them.

[punchofdeath]

Thats a good lookin cub

[Urbish]

Immediately head over to ihgascap.com, punch in your address and serial number, and you'll receive a new FREE gas cap from Navistar (current owner/affiliate of International Harvester) to replace the leaky one in your picture. I ordered on3 for my new-to-me LoBoy over the weekend and it arrived yesterday.

[Dale Finch]

FYI, the new gas cap is a safety issue...you really should get one, especially since they are free!

[Drfting1]

Very nice Cub!

[Waif]

Heck yes!
Congrats..

[ricky racer]

Welcome to the greatest Cub website on the planet!! You've got a real cream puff there!! I suggest you change all of the fluids because you don't know what's in it or the last time they were changed. Give it a through greasing including the throw out bearing (often neglected). Manuals and lots of other good info is up at the top of page. Thanks for sharing the picture. We like pictures.

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[Glen]

Hi,
Welcome to the website.
The Cub owner's manual has lots of info about operation, maintenance, and lubrication.
I would check or change all the oils, and coolant, before using the Cub for work.

Besides what Ricky said above, it looks like the grille and radiator need cleaning, so it can cool better.
They can get plugged mowing. You can use air pressure, I blow out the radiator from the back side.
Wear your safety glasses when using the air.

[Peter Person]

... Give it a through greasing including the throw out bearing (often neglected)...

Grease for throw out bearing is the cheapest oil laden black grease you can buy. No synthetic red, green, blue or whatever color high temperature grease.
The oil soaks into the graphite so when the clutch fingers touch the throw out bearing they slip on the bearing.

[Scrivet]

Great looking Cub! The kids should really enjoy it. I think you might be able to force yourself to enjoy it also if you just give it a chance!

'......from Navistar (current owner/affiliate of International Harvester) ........

Actually, Navistar is the same company that was founded as International Harvester. They sold the name International Harvester along with the ag division back in the '80's so they had to come up with a new name for themselves. I guess they couldn't get anybody to buy the liability on the gas caps so that's why they still have the program. If you want to have some fun, try playing "who actually owns International Harvester" through all the mergers, acquisitions, and spin offs since then.

[Super A]

Great looking Cub! The kids should really enjoy it. I think you might be able to force yourself to enjoy it also if you just give it a chance!

'......from Navistar (current owner/affiliate of International Harvester) ........

Actually, Navistar is the same company that was founded as International Harvester. They sold the name International Harvester along with the ag division back in the '80's so they had to come up with a new name for themselves. I guess they couldn't get anybody to buy the liability on the gas caps so that's why they still have the program. If you want to have some fun, try playing "who actually owns International Harvester" through all the mergers, acquisitions, and spin offs since then.

Tenneco bought the ag divison of IH in '84. The Farmall Plant in Rock Island was not part of the deal, along with the gas cap program. They rebadged most of the IH line as case International, later caseIH. IH had a brand new state of the art big tractor design ready to go which case got and released in 1987 as the caseIH Magnum. The small utility IH tractors continued, with case-inspired sheet metal, into the early 2000s.

Tenneco started spinning off their farm equipment business into "case Corporation" in '94ish.

Fiat purchased caseIH in 1999 and merged them with New Holland, new company is CNH Global.

Sorry to veer off topic. That's a nice Cub!! Don't panic about the gas cap thing, put that on your to-do list. (The whole lawsuit that led to the caps was basically operator neglilgence but they had good lawyers.) As long as your vent stays open on the cap and you don't refuel when it's hot, your tractor will not burst into flames.

Al

[Urbish]

Great looking Cub! The kids should really enjoy it. I think you might be able to force yourself to enjoy it also if you just give it a chance!

'......from Navistar (current owner/affiliate of International Harvester) ........

Actually, Navistar is the same company that was founded as International Harvester. They sold the name International Harvester along with the ag division back in the '80's so they had to come up with a new name for themselves. I guess they couldn't get anybody to buy the liability on the gas caps so that's why they still have the program. If you want to have some fun, try playing "who actually owns International Harvester" through all the mergers, acquisitions, and spin offs since then.

Tenneco bought the ag divison of IH in '84. The Farmall Plant in Rock Island was not part of the deal, along with the gas cap program. They rebadged most of the IH line as case International, later caseIH. IH had a brand new state of the art big tractor design ready to go which case got and released in 1987 as the caseIH Magnum. The small utility IH tractors continued, with case-inspired sheet metal, into the early 2000s.

Tenneco started spinning off their farm equipment business into "case Corporation" in '94ish.

Fiat purchased caseIH in 1999 and merged them with New Holland, new company is CNH Global.

Sorry to veer off topic. That's a nice Cub!! Don't panic about the gas cap thing, put that on your to-do list. (The whole lawsuit that led to the caps was basically operator neglilgence but they had good lawyers.) As long as your vent stays open on the cap and you don't refuel when it's hot, your tractor will not burst into flames.

Al

Only reason I brought up the gas cap is because there was a large wet puddle around the gas cap in the posted photo which could result in some excitement if it's actively splashing out of there.

[Super A]

Great looking Cub! The kids should really enjoy it. I think you might be able to force yourself to enjoy it also if you just give it a chance!

Actually, Navistar is the same company that was founded as International Harvester. They sold the name International Harvester along with the ag division back in the '80's so they had to come up with a new name for themselves. I guess they couldn't get anybody to buy the liability on the gas caps so that's why they still have the program. If you want to have some fun, try playing "who actually owns International Harvester" through all the mergers, acquisitions, and spin offs since then.

Tenneco bought the ag divison of IH in '84. The Farmall Plant in Rock Island was not part of the deal, along with the gas cap program. They rebadged most of the IH line as case International, later caseIH. IH had a brand new state of the art big tractor design ready to go which case got and released in 1987 as the caseIH Magnum. The small utility IH tractors continued, with case-inspired sheet metal, into the early 2000s.

Tenneco started spinning off their farm equipment business into "case Corporation" in '94ish.

Fiat purchased caseIH in 1999 and merged them with New Holland, new company is CNH Global.

Sorry to veer off topic. That's a nice Cub!! Don't panic about the gas cap thing, put that on your to-do list. (The whole lawsuit that led to the caps was basically operator neglilgence but they had good lawyers.) As long as your vent stays open on the cap and you don't refuel when it's hot, your tractor will not burst into flames.

Al

Only reason I brought up the gas cap is because there was a large wet puddle around the gas cap in the posted photo which could result in some excitement if it's actively splashing out of there.

That's nothing. As long as it's not running down the side of the tank! All these old tractors originally had a "sweat stain" about that size around the cap.

Al

[T-Mo]

You're not that far from me - I'm near Bonne Terre, Missouri. Also, be aware, there is a CubFest in California, Missouri in May. See the list here:

viewtopic.php?f=8&t=102673

[ifixedit]

Looks great! Hope you all have a lot of fun!