Mace Canute
Elite Member
This weekend the spindle on my JD 3010 broke. Turns out there was an old crack partway through it and it finally decided to give up the ghost. We figure it had to have been from previous damage that happened before I bought it. It didn't break in the horizontal part either but in the vertical part down at the very bottom.
http://www.tractorbynet.com/forums/...-axle-3010-what-do-img_20161022_171418065-jpg
The only thing to do was replace it and rather fortuitously my buddy had a JD 4010 parts tractor sitting a hundred feet away just waiting to be a donor. Unfortunately it had the standard John Deere front axle and the 3010's was the Norton/Schwartz style so we had to replace it all. With quite a bit of labour we got the front end out from under it and under the 3010 (direct bolt-in) and it's now back in service.
http://www.tractorbynet.com/forums/...-axle-3010-what-do-img_20161022_171418065-jpg
The only thing to do was replace it and rather fortuitously my buddy had a JD 4010 parts tractor sitting a hundred feet away just waiting to be a donor. Unfortunately it had the standard John Deere front axle and the 3010's was the Norton/Schwartz style so we had to replace it all. With quite a bit of labour we got the front end out from under it and under the 3010 (direct bolt-in) and it's now back in service.