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New User
- Location
- Eastern OK
New JD 4020 owner here. Have never owned a Deere, but have worked on many other tractors. Picked this up at auction, pretty clean condition (Pics 1/2 a 2 is after a quick cleaner wax). 1972 4020 with a 148 loader (tractor sn T213R 268912R). 20-25 year old (guessing) repaint from Quality Service Center (appears to be in southeastern Oklahoma, based on phone number, picked the tractor up from Whitesborough, TX). Starts quickly from cold, sounds good, clutch feels good, and shifts pretty darned smoothly through all ranges and gears, has the loader plumbed up from a box under the passenger side battery box vs running from the rear remotes. After hauling it home and checking it out a bit, have some questions that are probably super basic, but I’ve not been able to find on the webs.
1. In trying to determine hours I’ve looked at drawbar wear, clutch pedal wear, shifter wear, etc. and trying to determine if it’s got 11800 hours, or 1800 hours. Tach seems original, or is at least the Stewart Warner branded one and appears original. Currently shows 1860 or so hours and the hour meter is running properly as the tractor runs. Pic attached (3rd pic) to this post with the shifter wear, which I think is the thing showing the most wear. Drawbar and clutch pedal look fairly unworn. For those of you long time 4020 owners, would you guess this wear is from an 11k hour tractor or about 2k hour tractor… also, should these contact points be lubed? They’re dry as a bone and seem they’d wear super quickly without any kind of lube.
2. The brakes feel fairly grabby. They work very well and feel they have a lot of stopping power, but they just come on quickly, I can feather them and have them not be as grabby, they’re just much more sensitive than the brakes on any other tractor I’ve run. Is this normal?
3. Anyone recognize what this part could be for (4th/5th pic) Little angle with a snapped off bolt through it. Was in the toolbox beside the seat, but couldn’t see anywhere it should go.
1. In trying to determine hours I’ve looked at drawbar wear, clutch pedal wear, shifter wear, etc. and trying to determine if it’s got 11800 hours, or 1800 hours. Tach seems original, or is at least the Stewart Warner branded one and appears original. Currently shows 1860 or so hours and the hour meter is running properly as the tractor runs. Pic attached (3rd pic) to this post with the shifter wear, which I think is the thing showing the most wear. Drawbar and clutch pedal look fairly unworn. For those of you long time 4020 owners, would you guess this wear is from an 11k hour tractor or about 2k hour tractor… also, should these contact points be lubed? They’re dry as a bone and seem they’d wear super quickly without any kind of lube.
2. The brakes feel fairly grabby. They work very well and feel they have a lot of stopping power, but they just come on quickly, I can feather them and have them not be as grabby, they’re just much more sensitive than the brakes on any other tractor I’ve run. Is this normal?
3. Anyone recognize what this part could be for (4th/5th pic) Little angle with a snapped off bolt through it. Was in the toolbox beside the seat, but couldn’t see anywhere it should go.