Re: tractor- best buy-worst buy

Posted by DR. EVIL on November 26, 2020 at 04:46:36 from (174.192.134.238):

In Reply to: tractor- best buy-worst buy posted by swindave on November 25, 2020 at 08:51:39:

The 5 yr old 4010 diesel Dad bought December 1968 was his absolute worst Money Pit. Month after he bought it at auction it had all 4 new tires. I was lucky I made it the 20 miles home after the auction, tierods so worn I wore through the last of the tread rubber and 2 of the 6 plys. Dad tried to run it 20 miles to his favorite Deere dealer for a tune-up, made it about 4 miles, blew a frt tire, spent rest of day messing with front tires. It got repainted before spring fieldwork too. Looked brand new. It supposedly "Used a little oil" according to the seller at the auction. Disking corn stalks with our 12 ft disk was no load for it and it used a quart or two per tank of fuel. But plowing with 5-14 Case trailing plow with Midwest plow harrow, it struggled in 3rd gear in corn ground, 2nd in sod, and after burning half a tank of fuel we'd add 2 quarts of oil, and another 2-3 quarts when we fueled. 24V electrical system was a joke, Was a "Good Day" when I ran it to the field and didn't have to walk home. Power steering wasn't right, steering wheel would have to turn about half a turn going straight every quarter mile, brakes seemed to hang up if you used them, took a couple seconds to release after you released the pedal. The red Lock-Tight didn't keep the 4 cap screws tight, had to snug them up every load of oats we combined with our #30 combine, but running the 6 ft Brillion rotary cutter was worse, and the stub shaft loosened and tried to shift from 540 to 1000. Had both engine & pto clutches installed then too. Replaced the draft bar seals in the middle of corn planting, I was disking ahead of planter, Yes, we REALLY wanted to work half a day on some rookie engineers poor design instead of plant corn. The first tune-up by the self-proclaimed Best Deere diesel tech left a tractor with the 4020 kit making around 65 hp. Had another pump wizard come over one night, Dad grew up neighbors to him, rebuilt the whole pump and we had 100-105 HP, and about 50 hours later popped the head gasket fall plowing. When the pump guy rebuilt it with M&W sleeves and pistons the oil burning stopped.
The BEST tractor would be a tie, either the '51 M Dad bought brand new, or the '54 stage 2 Super H Dad traded a '39 H for May 8th, 1968. I bought the parts spring of '69 to put a tach/hour meter on the SH, we put 250 hours a year on it, May not seem like a lot, but only registered an hour for every 64 minutes of run time, the FARMALL 300/350 tach registered hours at 1750 rpm, Super H ran 1650, and depending what I was doing I may only run it 1400-1500. I don't ever remember the SH breaking down, Dad had my IH dealer rebuild the carb a year after we got it. Head and oil pan never been off it almost 67 yrs later. I bought a set of New Old Stock IH FireCrater sleeves & pistons for it last spring. Need to start getting the rest of the parts gathered up. The SH was always on Dad's list of things to do, maybe replace the rings, grind the valves, but whatever money he had to spend on repairs always had to go into the 4010 to keep it running.

Replies:

Add a Reply! You must be Logged In to Post Name: E-Mail: Subject: Comments: Optional Link URL: Link Title: Optional Image URL: Optional Video Title: Optional Video Embed: Advanced Posting Options Email Notification: If you check this box, email will be sent to you whenever someone replies to this message. Your email address must be entered above to receive notification. This notification will be cancelled automatically after 2 weeks. No political comments, hate speech or bigotry of any kind will be tolerated. Violations will be removed and posting privileges may be permanently revoked without notice.   Advanced Posting Tools   Select Gallery Photo  Attach Serial No List  Return to Post  Upload Photos/Videos Choose Files from your local computer Upload one or more videos to your post. Photo and video filesizes should be less than 5MB. Formats allowed are gif, jpg, png, ogg, mp4, mov, and avi. Be sure to use filenames without spaces or special characters, and filetypes of 3 digits lower case.

TRACTOR PARTS	TRACTOR MANUALS

We sell tractor parts!  We have the parts you need to repair your tractor - the right parts. Our low prices and years of research make us your best choice when you need parts. Shop Online Today. [ About Us ]