Tell you what buddy!!! I bought this tractor right. I have invested over $2000 in parts on it to make it right since then.. It has solid state ignition. It has a new Zenith carburetor, I even pulled the head and replaced the valve guides and valves as they were a little lose. Someone had replaced the sleeves and pistons already. I have even checked for vacuum leaks. I have done everything anyone could do and it just will not take throttle all of the time without stumbling. When it does it with the carb set rich to run in cold weather is floods itself as it dies. It is the internal accelerator pump system fouling up. It is a design issue with JD gas engines. There are a lot of good mechanics on this site that can not make a JD gas 3020 or 4020 run right.
As for your "Millionaire" farmer comment. I bought and paid for this tractor with hard earned money!!! With what the loader, Wide front end and the factory canopy brings plus the "salvage" yard payment for the rest of the tractor I will make about $2000 over what I gave for it even adding the parts I have put on it. So what is wrong with making lemonade out of a batch of lemons!!!!
The reason I will not sell this as a running tractor is because whomever I sell it to will more than likely not be able to make it run either. Then they will either want me to take it back or run me down for selling them a POS gas tractor. Been there done that before and I am not doing it again.
I may not sell it to Colfax. I might just part it out right here. I have two other donor diesel tractors that have bad hydraulics/transmissions/sheet metal that I may just use the good parts off this tractor and build one of them up.
My tractor my choice!!! I will not risk anyone taking this tractor out and having it strand them in a dangerous spot/hill/load again. That just is not going to happen!!!
Here is a picture of the tractor. I am not running junk!!! I will make it work out for me and that is all that matters!!!
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