Deere 5020 Repowered With Detroit V-12 Diesel

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 back and on 20-in tall 22-ply truck tires on 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 then 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 2 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 also to 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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