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Deere 5020 Repowered With Detroit V-12 Diesel
“I bought a well-used Deere 5020 tractor at an auction with a locked-up engine. It sat around for about a year before I decided to replace it with a Detroit V-12 diesel engine with about 450 hp.,” says David Will, Wadesville, Ind.
The tractor rides on 20.8 by 38 radial dual tires filled with fluid on
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Deere 5020 Repowered With Detroit V-12 Diesel ENGINES “I bought a well-used Deere 5020 tractor at an auction with a locked-up engine It sat around for about a year before I decided to replace it with a Detroit V-12 diesel engine with about 450 hp ” says David Will Wadesville Ind
The tractor rides on 20 8 by 38 radial dual tires filled with fluid on the back and 20-in tall 22-ply truck tires on the front It weighs about 22 000 lbs Will installed air cleaners out of a Freightliner semi-truck on both sides of the tractor and also added a pair of 5-in chrome stacks off a Peterbilt semi-truck A pair of gear-driven blowers force air into the engine
“I use it to pull a 30-ft field cultivator It’s a lot of fun to drive ” says Will “It’s really loud - you can hear it 2 to 3 miles away when I’m using it in the field ”
He found the V-12 diesel engine in Illinois “It had come out of a Manitowoc dragline in a Kentucky coal mine where it was used to mine hundreds of thousands of tons of coal But the engine was locked up due to spun main bearings I sent the bare block to Republic Diesel in Louisville Ky to have it line-bored They also bored out every cylinder hole to install oversize sleeves ”
The entire winter of 2013 was devoted to assembling the engine and installing it in the tractor It has about 450 hp “It now pulls anything I hook on behind it and is quite competitive at local tractor pulls ” says Will
He cut the frame in two and welded in new material to lengthen the tractor by 15 in “I added part of the frame off a Deere 4840 underneath to strengthen the frame so that it wouldn’t break the flywheel housing ” says Will “The 4840 frame is bolted to the the 5020 frame and the tractor’s planetary housing
“It was a lot of work but I’m pleased with how it turned out ” says Will “I spent about $10 000 just to rebuild the engine I also added two big 12-volt batteries hooked in series to provide 24 volts to start the engine ”
Contact: FARM SHOW Followup David A Will 10920 Diamond Island Rd Wadesville Ind 47638 ph 812-963-6503; cell ph 812-204-4587
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