JD 435, good for a small loader tractor?

michaelr

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Would you guys think a jd 435 would be an ok loader tractor? Other options in the same price range are like a farmall m. I have owned before, but would be new to john deere.

I 'think' that the JD 435 has a high RPM engine. What engine is in the 435?
 
The injune is a two cylinder Detroit Diesel
Also called a screaming jimmy or a Detroit leaker.
There were another nick name, but it had a risque content, and I shouldn't use it here.
 
I would guess that the screaming jimmy has good hydraulic pressure due to fast engine speeds to raise and lower a bucket in a timely manner?
 
(quoted from post at 11:59:57 09/02/14) Would you guys think a jd 435 would be an ok loader tractor? Other options in the same price range are like a farmall m. I have owned before, but would be new to john deere.

I 'think' that the JD 435 has a high RPM engine. What engine is in the 435?

Ever see the front of a loader tractor with a ding?
There were only 4625 or so 435's built in 11 months. Better to take the $10 thousand plus for a decent restored 435 and purchase a newer tractor with power steering . And common as dirt cheap replacement parts.
The nose peice of a 435 is made out of Unatainium . I looked for 18 months before finding a replacement and paid $800. Plus two days round trip drive for the peice.
I was too proud after getting stuck in rut beside a tree while using the rotary cutter. To ask Mrs B&D for a tow and be mocked by her for the next six months and intermittently there after . Almost made it out while standing on the wheel brake, almost.
Bent the hood, grill screens, the Center peice and the chin peice too.
 
Restoring is not on my agenda. I want to start using a tractor loader instead of my back for lifting all sorts of heavy crap.
 

A 435 is not your first choice unless the vender has no idea what they have. Or the tractor is completely beat to pieces .
If you do end up with a 435 having an intact nose peice and mount a loader. Take the nose peice off , label it well and store it in a secure protected location.
I do have a matching JD 35 loader with a hydraulic bucket for sale. It came off a 435.
The common as dirt and economically priced 440ID or 440 with a loader and on occasion a backhoe . They come up for sale far more often and for the fraction the money a complete 435 demands.
 
A 435 is good for a lot of things but I would look at something different for a hobby loader tractor.
 
The engine is governed between 1800-2100 rpm, depending how the governor is set. It just sounds like it is revving faster since it is a 2 cycle diesel and fires on every other revolution,instead of every 4th revolution.
 
With a 2-53, aren't there actually TWO firings every revolution and that is why it sounds like a 4 cylinder 4 cycle running 3600 RPM when he's only turning 1800?

Our ears get so used to the 4 cycle engines we're fooled to think the Jimmy is running fast. That too is why so many lugged them mercilessly. They didn't sound like they were running slow even when they were!

Had a 3-71 (Oliver super 99) on my dyno yesterday! Though he bellers loudly sounding like destruction is just 'round the corner, he'll sit there for days at 1800 RPM shoulder fully to the wall only SOUNDING like some sorta BANSHEE on speed!

They are a breed all their own which I fully respect and rather enjoy for some reason!
 
I would get a 4020 with a 148 loader and be able to do something. My 435 leaks so much oil out around the 3 pt that I doubt if it would have enough left for a loader. Also the brakes a small. Even though you are not going to restore it, atleast you can get parts for a 4020. The front axle on a 435 is very fragile with very small bolts holding it on. Like I said, get a 4020. You will be glad.
 
(quoted from post at 12:58:25 09/02/14) I would guess that the screaming jimmy has good hydraulic pressure due to fast engine speeds to raise and lower a bucket in a timely manner?

The 2-53 no more has to be revved to make torque and power than the two cylinder gasser in the 420/430/440.
It will ease a load into motion just off idle with the best of them.
Use a real JD oval muffler or go deaf on the 435/440.
Using a 435 on a loader or other rough jobs is like wearing your best sunday shoes into the barn to shovel recycled livestock feed.
 
If a Deere 435 and a Farmall M are both in your price range the Deere is junk and the Farmall is pristine. Either that or your price range is very broad in which case you could be looking at lots of different makes and models. Good running, decent looking M's go for around $2000 while a similar condition 435 would start out at three or four times that. Since it sounds like you're planning on doing work with it probably doesn't make sense to buy a highly collectible model like the 435, especially for the often abusive environment of loader work. You would get a lot more tractor for the money with a more generic model.
 

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