Dad bought a '63 4010-D in December '68. Tractor still had the factory GY 45 degree tires on it, and had already been overhauled w/4020 kit. Four new tires, new paint, tune-up at the better of the two local dealers, and first day we take to the field spring of '69 we wondered where all the horse power was. Then found out it was burning 4-5 quarts of oil per tank of fuel.
Every day we used it was spent fixing something else on that tractor as opposed to doing fieldwork. Little stuff, like tie rod ends falling apart on the wfe, and the tractor never had a loader on it. Leaky water pump, draft bar seals, constant 24v battery/starter/generator/voltage reg issues. Lights never did work, but as long as the radio kept working I was o-k.
Finally had an injection pump guy who knew what he was doing rebuild the pump, pump set to 100-105 hp, really woke the old girl up! And in 40-50 hours blew the head gasket. Winter of '71/'72 the tractor got an in frame major rebuild, pump set back to stock with M&W pistons, new main/rod bearings, head rebuilt. Tractor ran fine for maybe 100 hours, then pto clutch went out. Shop put new pto & engine clutch in it and sold it for Dad. Tractor got an M & W turbo installed by new owner and about a year later the kid that bought it came back and wanted to know how much of the rearend/transmission rebuild Dad was going to pay for.... Ahhhhh NONE!
All we pulled with it was a Case 4-14 pull type plow, 12 ft disk, JD #30 pull type combine over 20-30 acres of oats a year, 4 row frt mounted cultivator... Maybe 100-125 hours of use a year, sat from early July when the corn was laid by till April when we started spring fieldwork, then the daily breakdowns would start all over again. Never the same thing, always something different.
While we're trying to keep this 4010 running, I'm working for the BTO a mile down the road 60 to 90 hours per week running his pair of '64 4020's. The only problem he had with either of them was loosing the hyd pump drive coupling in his fieldwork tractor, the one with wfe& cab. Only ever ran the 3-pt and a remote cylinder. Never had a loader or bale spear on it. Funny, but that coupling was the only common problem our 4010 never had. What a money pit that tractor was! Paid $3600 for the tractor, and probably paid close to TWICE that much in repairs over the 3-1/2 years we ran it.
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