John Deere 420

[echofarmma]

What part on the 420 tractor and others makes the difference in height on the standard and utility models ?

 

[buickanddeere]

Tires, front axle and both the type and position of the rear axle final drive.
Best way would be to look through the parts section of the JD web site and compare the U,V,S,W,T and H chassis versions.

 

[echofarmma]

Is there a way to invert the final drives to change the height?

 

[buickanddeere]

That is how Deere lowered and lengthened the U model by rotating the rear axle housing 90 degrees back.

 

[JDseller]

If you do that you need shorter front spindles to make it level. We tried to lower one and it was more difficult than we thought it would be. By the time we where done we did not save much on just finding the model we wanted.