Model 1020 tractor

Wayne in MN · Jun 11, 2013

Our threshing show is looking at purchasing a 1020 to raffle off as a fundraiser.
Any problem areas to look at when we refurbish it?
Thank you for any information you can share.

Machinery-Man · Jun 12, 2013

a lot of these tractors will have well worn hydraulics pumps and internal cylinder. Be sure to get one with low hours....

Anonymous-0 · Jun 12, 2013

It would be hard to find a low houred 1020.
Hydraulic pumps, brakes, engine cylinder cavitation are main problems.

Tx Jim · Jun 13, 2013

In this day & age if coolant wasn't properly maintained then there's a high probability of engine liner cavitation. Also brake pad failure from moisture contaminated hyd oil.

Anonymous-0 · Jun 15, 2013

Deere liked to blame facing failure on moisture and/or using other brands of oil.
Mainly it was a poor design plus probably defective facings. 2840 brakes failed early thus destroying the hi-lo "also poorly designed" due to clogged strainers. Seems replacement disks on other sizes would fail in less than a year during that time.
Deere finally decided to use the good facing on both sides of the disk to solve the problem.

Tx Jim · Jun 16, 2013

(quoted from post at 20:41:14 06/15/13) Deere liked to blame facing failure on moisture and/or using other brands of oil.
Mainly it was a poor design plus probably defective facings. 2840 brakes failed early thus destroying the hi-lo "also poorly designed" due to clogged strainers. Seems replacement disks on other sizes would fail in less than a year during that time.
Deere finally decided to use the good facing on both sides of the disk to solve the problem.

D-
Get REAL 2840's were right behind the 2010D in 2nd place as the sorriest tractor JD built. The reason JD claimed moisture would cause brake pads to fail is because it's a true fact. Some types of "other brand" hyd oil will cause brake lining prioblems on JD tractors.

D- · Jun 17, 2013

Yes they were poorly designed tractors with poorly designed brakes. The same as the rest of the utility tractors with the same oil.
My point was that these brakes failed with no apparent reason. They could have had low hours, kept in the dry and still fail while others with water in the trans to such an extent that it would be milky and brakes didn't fail.
Deere did finally solve the problem by putting the good facing on both sides of the disk.
Why did it take so long for them to figure that out?
I ran across a 2020 years ago that someone had put the disk in backwards and ate up the trans case instead of the piston.
Do you remember that the earlier tractors had the "paper" facing bonded to the piston and the "good" facing just floated between the trans case and disk. Even then the facing on the piston went bad. Several design changes over the years for someone to finally figure out a "good" facing on both sides would work no matter what they attributed the cause of failure to.

Tx Jim · Jun 18, 2013

No I don't remember the amount of utility tractor brake failures that you refer to BUT I left the JD dealership in 1987 and a lot of water has run under the bridge since then.

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