5020 with Deere 8955 repower

Sherry has those 2 pictures of this on her Heritage Iron facebook page.
That seems like expensive repower project!
Does someone known the details of it?

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Pretty, looks like a nice job. Hope he's got a lot of frame under the engine to keep the trator's frame structural load out of the engine. Better keep the trany out of the lower gears too! I wonder why he put in a long-out-of-production engine like the JD 8-955! Maybe he bled green - and had lots of green in his pocket.

That is for sure the right way to put a Deere V8 in a Deere.

He could have used the scraper final drives to hold a full length frame.
Scraper frames are also very nice for rides due to the higher top speed of about 30MPH, plus the hydraulic clutch like the 7520s, probably good for a 400Hp clutch.

I studied it a tiny bit and it sounds very hard. The bolt pattern from the 6 cylinder to the 8 seems to be the same, for the upper bolts (altough not sure), but the big deal is that the V8955 is threaded and the clutch housing on the 5020 is threaded as well.
On the 8850, bolts holding the motor are inserted from the rear.

What I do not like is the air filter on the side that do not looks factory. Just looks like all the other Detroits or Cummins conversions.

This setup with the air filter up front is fairly smart.
https://www.farmshow.com/a_article.php?aid=19645

With this design, No room for the fuel, but fenders tanks, customs tanks in lieu of the toolbox + inside the wheels (Round barrels made to fit inside of the 32 inch wheels around the trumpets), should be plenty capacity and very unoticeable.

Maybe a modified 6030 air filter with a taller cartridge is all what is required. You are talking huge money for this JD repower, so all efforts to make it looks exactly like a 6030 V8 should be taken, and a Truck air filter should be avoided. But this is just an opinion, suggestion to go further. I love the tractor.

That may be the one built by or for (mot
sure which) Lance Little. If it's the same
one, I believe it has a powershift
transmission too.

He builds some of the nicest looking grand
national level pulling tractors you'll ever
see, and I think they farm a good bit of
ground as well.

Can somebody a photo the link just brings me back to this site

I like the single stack a lot better to looks way nicer

(quoted from post at 18:31:50 02/28/18) That may be the one built by or for (mot
sure which) Lance Little. If it's the same
one, I believe it has a powershift
transmission too.

He builds some of the nicest looking grand
national level pulling tractors you'll ever
see, and I think they farm a good bit of
ground as well.

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Looking more at the engine picture, you can see trough the air filter the RH rail on the dash for PS + the lever is in the neutral position for PS tractors.
Also, he used a 760A trans because the frames are extending all the way to the trumpet housings.
In some way, the PS tranny is simpler because you do not have to worry about a clutch release mecanism.You still need the clutch to control peak torque.
So it means that he has a high speed 5020, Powershift, with a Deere 8955 motor! Not sure the PS can last long if you hook it up to an 1150Bu grain cart, but that sounds cool!

Sure Lance Little has some very nice tractors, except for their air filters.

He has a beautiful Massey 1150 with 30.5-32 that sounds really mean.

I agree, the air filters are ugly. I saw a
video of that tractor driving around months
ago but I can't find it anymore. In the
video some parts were still industrial
yellow. I wondered then if their were
scraper parts in it. I thought it was a
really neat concept.

Tractor is for sale.
https://www.mecum.com/lots/GA0320-427886/1966-john-deere-4020-follmer-re-power/

There is another 5020 powershift for sale at same auction. It has a V12.

Do you know why Lance Little is selling all his tractors?