You where luckier than you know. A JD 3020 gas is a miserable tractor to keep running with todays gas. I used one for ten years to run the feeder wagon. I finally got tired of working on it to keep it running half A$$ed. It would never run right. Either the mixture was too rich for when it was hot or too lean when it was cold. I swear that the spark plug threads where shiny in the head. You would foul them out in a week or two.
I rebuilt the engine thinking low compression was causing the trouble, New ignition system, carb. rebuilt several times, starter 3-4 times in the last two years. The thing would not start if it was warm. If you stopped it to check on some cattle you had better not want to use it for an hour. You could grind the batteries to zero and it would not fire off. I even installed the electronic system and it was only a little better. You could pull start it in five feet when hot but even a diesel starter would not crank it where it would start hot.
It made me nuts trying to get it to run right. I even had a friend that is a real JD gas tractor guru and he could not get it to work.
I sold it to a fellow and told him right out it would not start hot. He called me back in a few weeks and chewed me out as it would not start hot. I even wrote that on the bill of sale and had him sign the note.
I will never again own a JD gas tractor to keep and use. resale fine but I am not wasting my time when I need a tractor to work.
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