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My owners manual says 9 US quarts for transmission differential SAE 80 and 3 US gallons for direction reverser.

My guess it would cost a small fortune at Deere labor is probably 100.00 + an hour. One thing that seems to help for me is to slowly heat the head of the bolt, Theory being that it gets hot and expands in the hole and helps to break it loose. Heat it back off heat it and so on so the heat travels do...

As a trucker I think those ice road guys are nuts, and as far as taking my crawler over the ice I think 50 feet thick would be safe but anything less forget it. I personally would feel safer to float it across on some sort of a barge. There is just something about metal tracks on ice that does' nt a...

Looks to me like your having more fun than one man should be allowed, O-kay I admit,I'm jealous.

Just a thought but while I had the track frames off my 1010 I took them to a shop by me and he cut pieces out of the area where the idler rides and welded in new pieces of what he called T-1, which is very hard and does not wear easy. I have put apx 500 hrs on so far and to this point it looks good,...

I would agree with Bill that it makes the frame stronger. I find that when you take the pan on or off you sometimes have to uae an hydraulic jack to press on the rails or the pan a little to get all the bolt holes lined up so there must be some flex in the rails. If the machine was working, my guess...

Women just don't understand the need for new toys, but if its something for their house, now that they understand.

I have original Deere manuals for a 1010 so I thought I would check them to see. They are not showing an oil gauge, just a so called Tel-Light. The only gauges shown on the dash are water temp and fuel. I have a 1010 and had another in the past and both had oil gauges. I guess someone must have adde...

I am no expert but I always use the JD Hi-gard in my 1010 reverser. They tell me it meets all the specs for a 1010 and I figure if it is good enough for todays hi-tech machines it should be good enough for a working relic like a 1010. I have put many hours on 1010s and have never had any reverser pr...

That does seem odd, everything from old welders to old trucks always seems to have an oil gauge, are you sure someone has not altered it . Is there a place in the dash for a gauge?

Now that is priceless. Chalk one up for the relics of yesteryear.

Just ran across an MC crawler with a blade on E-bay in running condition.If anyone is interested it is listed under the catagorie of John Deere snow plow and is in Middlefield Ohio wich is about 30 miles east of Cleveland. The add says it is a 52 model.

Amen on the easy outs, I have never had one work yet . They ain't easy and nothing ever comes out.

Inoticed you said iit was a loader,I home built a set of forks for my 1010 that attach using the pins that attach the bucket. Iwelded old hyster forks to a piece of heavy [ AND I MEAN HEAVY] steel plate, and built a kind of framework in the back with short tubes at the attaching points. I take the p...

Count me in for 1 1010 gas with a loader good running condition.