paint color contradiction 1020

Wingnut300

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I have a 67' JD1020 and am in the process of repainting the hood, front plate, side plates and battery lid. You have to take the hydraulic reservoir and fuel tank out to get the front plate off.

I noticed that it had been painted yellow and then green on top of that. The yellow looks original and I was wondering if the front end may have been painted up for an industrial model and was maybe pulled off that line to be used on an AG tractor straight from the factory. Did they do stuff like that? Here's a pic of it.

The tractor was also missing the oil cap which I bought from Deere but it had raised lettering on it that said Torque rite or something like that. I filed it off, sanded it and hand engraved what you see on the top to make mine a one of a kind, then painted it with that Majic paint.
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What you have is yellow primer and yes it is origonal. Some folks will tell you Deere didn't use primer except on castings. They are wrong. Dubuques have it on the castings as well as the sheet metal, hydraulic tubes, etc. I can remember ordering a TOM lever decades ago and it had that same yellow primer. Don't have a clue about Waterloo's but Dubuques had it all the way back to 47.
 
(quoted from post at 14:28:28 07/04/15) What you have is yellow primer and yes it is origonal. Some folks will tell you Deere didn't use primer except on castings. They are wrong. Dubuques have it on the castings as well as the sheet metal, hydraulic tubes, etc. I can remember ordering a TOM lever decades ago and it had that same yellow primer. Don't have a clue about Waterloo's but Dubuques had it all the way back to 47.

Thanks for the reply.
 
(quoted from post at 19:45:57 07/04/15) doesn't seem to be the same shade as the primer I've seen on nos parts.Bill

I agree that color appears different color from primer JD used. I've seen several ind tractors that a local tractor jockey repainted green and put ag decals on
 
It may just be the lighting but the Waterloo primer in your pic looks a tad lighter and a tad softer than that used by Dubuque. I was redoing the front end of one of my M's last week and it was the same bright shiny yellow as the 1020 in the other pic. The shiny part is what has alway's puzzled me. I have never seen a shiny primer on anything else.
 
My 420T has that same color on it and when I blasted a bit of it I found the dull yellow primer that I have seen on others. It appears that the real primer is under the shiny yellow that we see in your picture and on my 420T.

It is my theory that my tractor was originally sold to the State Hwy Dept and then to someone that repainted it Green. The key here is my THEORY since it has no ID plate I guess I will never know for sure.
 
your primer looks different from the front bracket color. Heres a n.o.s. spindle from an MI. Really cant say if its primer or paint but it is shiny. Bill
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I asked about the yellow primer when I was on a tour at the JD Combine works two years ago. The gentleman giving the tour, who was much older than I and had worked at Deere for 25+ years, told me I was nuts/wrong. I showed him the yellow primer on my MT from a picture on my phone and he stated John Deere never ever in it's history used a yellow primer. There ya go folks, the tour guide from JD has set it straight. We all have tractors that were meant for the industrial market that got painted green when sales slumped!
 
(quoted from post at 06:08:58 07/06/15) There ya go folks, the tour guide from JD has set it straight. We all have tractors that were meant for the industrial market that got painted green when sales slumped!

JD did use primer on some parts.

What does a tour guide at East Moline,Illinois know about a factory in Dubuque,Ia? A poster on another discussion forum stated he retired from the Ottumwa,Ia(forage) factory and that JD rd balers are inferior. Am I suppose to trade my JD rd baler with 19,000+ bales on it that baled 400+ plus bales over the July 4th holidays for another color rd baler? I think not so.
 

Oh, if I had a dollar for every time someone has called me about or sent me photos of the yellow "paint" they found after scraping off the green on their Deere tractor. Most of them are convinced that their tractor is some rare industrial and can't be convinced otherwise.
 

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