I will disagree with you on that statement. There are many of the internal parts that are common with the JD 3020. You know of one that did not have rear end issues. I personally knew the fellow that was in charge of JDs Waterloo tractor works warranty program in the early 1970s. He told me, nation wide, they had a much higher number of rear end failures than was common.. He wanted to make a service bulletin making the warranty void if the tractors weighed more than so much. They where sold to weigh 1000 lbs. less than a JD 4020. Guys found out you could get them to weight close to the same with fluid and cast weights both. Then they tore the rear ends up. Usually the ring gear carrier would be damaged around the spider gears. Planetary gear failures would happen too. Broken axles when used with axle duals too. Engine and transmission held up but the rear ends was the weak link.
The first dealership I worked for sold more JD 4000s than any other tractor model JD ever made. I think it was around 85 of them. So when I first started in the shop we were still seeing many of them in the shop. On may of the smaller diary farms these JD 4000s were the biggest tractor they had.
The funny thing was the second highest number of tractors sold was the JD 2840. I guess that the smaller independent dairy farmers needing tractors that size for hay and other chores pushed the sales.
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