Been spreading JD 4320 parts around !!!

Well I have been working on getting my JD 4320 project going. I finished disassembling everything this afternoon. I was going to do it section at a time but I wanted to make sure I had enough stuff to completely assemble it back. So I tore everything down to see what parts where good and what where bad.

So they are: Parts of five motors, Three transmissions (one burnt one, one good case and one wrecked case)not a good reverse gear in any of them LOL some how have four high range gears???, four rear ends(two with broken housings and one that is burnt)have four sets of real good brake plates but not a single good brake piston. they all are rusted or the plating is coming off of them, Eight different selective control valves laying around and may still have to buy some new spools, Two sets of the left hand side panels and no rights (screw up on my part as I thought I had rights and just bought another set of lefts last week), Two wide front ends but I think they both are bent, enough rear casting and rims for 3-4 tractors (none with a good tire on them LOL), Three right hand fenders and only one left. Don't know how that came about.

So I have parts scattered around the whole shop and one shed. The biggest problem was that I started collecting/gathering part for this 15 years ago. So I still have to dig some of them out of the sheds. It is funny that I way too many of some things and none of a few others. An example of this is battery boxes. I have four lefts and no rights. What??? I have three seat assembles. I don't remember where they came from. I just remember one.

So it is kind of like a snipe hunt and scavenger hunt rolled into tractor project. I already have more free space in the one machine shed as I had pallets of parts stored in there for this project. Then just for fun I found a pallet of transmission gears out of a JD 4020 thrown in just to make it more fun. LMAO I have been doing a lot of gear tooth counting the last few days.

I think this is a 4320, JDseller, though I do not know anything at all about Deeres other than what colour they should be!! With the crowd at the last show it was difficult to get a photo, but this may give you some encouragement to get those bits put together!
Sam

Jd, Maybe you need to do some trading. That sounds like a big jigsaw puzzle but the pieces are heavier. I have almost everything for a Diesel 861 Ford. Motor parts and sheet metal here in the garage, trans parts in one container, rear outside covered up, wheels and tires at my brothers house. What I need is a complete parts tractor. You know for the little pieces.
Ron

A few years back I led a 4-H club that restored a John Deere H. We had two incomplete tractors to start with and 10 or so well meaning but unorganized teenagers. We ended up with a very respectable restored tractor and many left over parts......some of the smaller ones keep showing up in the most interesting nooks and crannies of my shop! Its kind of like a John Deere Easter Egg hunt.

I know the feeling. I'm cleaning out and re-organizing the shop. Wow, just like Christmas....Ron

I did a project like that many years ago. I was into tractor pulling at the time and pulled a 930 case. At the time the rules in my class required a stock block and driveline but anything else was ok. SO, I decided to bore it and put in 504 pistons and sleeves and direct injection heads. I worked at a salvage yard at the time and must have spent a week in the shelves comparing parts to get all the ones I needed to make it work. Got it all done with all stock case parts, but they came from 970, 1170, 2670 and others. LOL. It was a fun project tho.

Sounds like the Johnny Cash song, One piece at a time! Heard that yesterday. Good luck with your project!

Good luck,JD!A 4320 is probably my favorite John Deere tractor.Please post pics of the 'journey'.And some upon completion.Thanks,Steve

Sounds like a good time for a Before shot with the camera.

Rick

Hi
I know this is not what you want to hear
If that tractor was mine Id clean all the sheds out with a big loader for scrap when the price was good.
Then go find another good runner as I bet most of the wreckers ones are worn out the same as your pile of parts.
Seems they all have common weaknesses what ever the color when I go looking for used parts, and new stuff won't be cheap either if still on the shelf.
Im glad it's not me doing it I got a big head ache with a MF 4270 front axle right now :-(.
Good luck and I hope ya make it till the end. if you do stay with it I would love to see pictures all the way through as ya make progress.
Regards Robert

"Eight different selective control valves laying around and may still have to buy some new spools"

HMMMMMMMMMMM... I can see some problems ahead for you, as Deere SCV"s of that era do NOT use "spools". But, I suppose a "deere seller" would know that and I am just wasting my time bringing it your attention! Carry on!

(quoted from post at 03:12:49 11/27/12) "Eight different selective control valves laying around and may still have to buy some new spools"

HMMMMMMMMMMM... I can see some problems ahead for you, as Deere SCV"s of that era do NOT use "spools". But, I suppose a "deere seller" would know that and I am just wasting my time bringing it your attention! Carry on!

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Ok smart butt. I was trying not to confuse some of the none JD guys by saying I did not have any good valves in the all of the selective control valves I have. If you never have had a JD selective control valve apart then you would not know that each one has four internal valves in it. So out of the eight used selective control valves I have 32 valves and only six good ones so I need to buy at least two.

Also "Bob" I worked as a JD dealership mechanic for over twenty years. Service manager for ten after that. So I have had a few of these apart.

I did not take years of English classes to write essays. So maybe my prose is not up to your standards at all times.