3020 slipping clutch and old memories

RBnSC · Mar 30, 2014

Last week I drove our 3020 that we have had for over a year for the first time. Did not realize that the clutch was weak. Used it anyway. Planted all our corn. From the time I first started driving tractors Dad would always put Me on the one that had a weakness or problem. He knew that I would be a part of the diagnosis and repair and at the very least I would make it last longer. Seems I was always driving the raggiest thing we owned. Lots of stories from over the years. After He quit farming he would send me to fix other people trucks if they were broke down on the side of the road.
Ron

Tx Jim · Mar 30, 2014

Have you checked the clutch pedal free travel?

RBnSC · Mar 30, 2014

Good question, no I haven't. In such a hurry to
beat the rain.
Ron

buickanddeere · Mar 30, 2014

I hope this isn't an example of how being too busy to perform 10 minutes of service. Stops production and requires days of work with thousands of $$$ in parts.

Bob Bancroft · Mar 30, 2014

Kind of reminds me of an experience, but it was a new tractor!
In April 1966, when I turned 11, our new 2510 arrived. It came with a wide front. But dad had ordered a roll-o-matic, and demanded it. (If he been forward thinking at all, he would have kept the wide front.) The dealer came out later and switched the front end. I was driving it some time later, when I noticed something wrong in the steering. The capscrews holding the narrow front had come loose. I found some big old 3/4" drive tools in the bottom of the toolbox, and tightened them as best I could, and dutifully reported to Dad. So far as I know, no one ever touched it after that.

3020 slipping clutch and old memories

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