I feel like I have been having Christmas all week!!!

I have been working on my JD 4320 transmission at night for the last several days. It has been like opening presents. LOL I have been digging through pallets and boxes of parts that I have horded for years. Some of them have gotten mixed in with 3020,4020 and 4430 trans parts as well. So it has been fun getting all the correct parts together.

I did build some wooden box pallets and have sorted all the different parts by model in each box. Would have helped a lot if I had done that ten years ago.

I have several mysteries too. I have six pinion gears and only four ring gears. Only two are sets. I sure don't remember having that many orphans.

Did not have a good low gear in all of the stuff. That is going to hurt to buy. They have been bring $300-400 used.

The good thing is that I have managed to find real good parts that have very little wear on them. The best donor I bought clear back in 1987. The original tractor only had 2500 hours on it and got Tee boned by a semi. The wreck broke every housing on the tractor. I bought the whole thing and picked the good internal parts out of the wreckage. Sold the rest for scrap. I got my money back from the scrap I sold. Of coarse I have stored/moved the stuff for 26 years.

You can understand why the boys are dreading the day they have to clean up after I am gone. I tend to be a pack rat on some things. LOL

Well everyone have a MERRY CHRISTMAS !!!!!

Merry Christmas JD!!I too am a "pack rat".I admire you for sticking with your 4320 project for so long.I would have given up!A '43' is probably my favorite "New generation" tractor.

The real maddening thing is I have owned several over the years but at the times I got one bought I needed the money for something else and sold them. That is what I had boughten them for but it still hurt to have to let them go.

Then by the time I got to where I could have boughten one and kept it, the prices have sky rocketed. Plus they are getting old enough that the ones selling for big money may still need a lot of work done on them. So I decided to just build one from the ground up.

I hope to have it done before spring planting. I am not taking any customer shop work in until then.

Merry Christmas Steve

JD,
Be sure to take and post pics of the project as you go along. Be fun to watch it take shape from the ground up.

Merry Christmas to you too!It has been really great talking to you over the past year. I still say your life stories would make a great show or movie.

Wait until you get it all done and find a box full of low gears !!! Lol

Merry Christmas to you and your family JD. I look forward to your stories here. Your stories and your style remind me so much of my long passed Grandpa. I miss him every day I look at my children and how much he would be over the moon with them. Again Merry Christmas and thank you.

Merry Christmas JD...It was good to meet you down in Missouri in September. Just wish we had more time to talk!
All the best with your project and a Happy New Year.
Sam

I know who to ask if I ever have to get into my 4320.