Quoting Removed, click Modern View to see Back in the day The JD 3020 would have still been a fuel hog but it would have ran on the gas that was commonly available then. It would have been equal too or better than the Oliver THEN.
We are talking about buying these tractors after 40 years have passed. The parts availability for the JD 3020 gas engine has some problems and expense, mainly the crankshafts. Also the JD new generation GAS tractors run like crap on the gas we can commonly get today. I think that is regional too. Some guys say theirs run great but in my area NO one can make them run right all of the time. They run half A$$ed most of the time and that is with fooling with them all of the time. The Oliver gas engine is superior to the JD in this comparison of these two tractors.
Guys I have owned an Oliver 1655 diesel for close to forty year great tractor. I also own an IH 1466 diesel my Grand Father bought new, good tractor. So I have owned just about every brand out there. I am honest in my opinion.
I owned a JD gas 4020 for 30 years that was used daily feeding livestock. Ran fine until about the mid 1990s. That is when they started reformulating the gas we could buy. It ran like crap after that regardless of what it had done to it. Completely overhauled, solid state ignition, new carburetor, new distributor. I even replace the complete wiring harness because it would run great times but not at others , so I wanted to rule out a broken wire in the harness. It still would foul spark plugs in about a week. It would not take throttle 75% of the time without stumbling and almost dying. You know what would make it run like a Swiss watch?????? Turbo Blue racing gas. Run like a top. I could not afford the $5 a gallon fuel. So the fuel is/was the trouble. I know I spent over $10K trying to make it run right. I had every JD guru in a 50 mile radius try to figure it out. No dice.
In 2003 I bought an Oliver 1650 GAS tractor. I put it on an 8 foot snow blower that I use on my house drive way. Loved it and had ZERO trouble with it for 5 years. Sold it to a fellow that owns it to this day without any issues with it being a gas tractor.
So with this in mind I can NOT advise anyone to buy a GAS JD 3010/3020/4010/4020. Especially when they are looking at an Oliver 1650 in comparison. In 2017 the Oliver 1650 GAS is a better running tractor on average. Also should be a little cheaper. That is my HONEST recommendation PERIOD.
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