I never came across anything on a 1010 or 2010, gas or diesel engine, that I would call "bad engineering" for the time. All the problems I saw with them were from owner abuse, ignorance, and not-so-great parts support. Re: the one-piece sleeve deck? So what? It means you had to buy all four cylinders new during a rebuild. I do the same if an engine has four separate sleeves. Again - a parts support issue. To my knowledge, nobody ever made an aftermarket sleeve-deck. So it had to come from Deere. There are three different decks. 1010 gas is one. 1010 diesel/2010 gas is another (they interchange). Or the 2010 diesel i).s the third.
1010/2010 were the first Deere full-size engines to have wet sleeves (I think). I am NOT counting pony-starter motors. 1010/2010 engines were the first Deere engines to use positive valve-stem seals. 1010/2010 diesels were the first Deere engines to use Stanadyne rotary-distributor injection pumps and almost the first in the world (Hercules beat them). They also might be the only IDI diesels ever made by Deere (not sure).
We had a lot of loggers trash 2010 diesel engines in crawlers from not using the primers or glow-plugs and using ether instead. That is abuse and not an engineering issue. 1010/2010 really needs the primer-pump working for cold starting.
The diesels also used an odd series-parallel 12-volt/24-volt system that worked better then the awful chassis-groundless Delco 12-12-24 used in 3020s and 4020s.
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