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Read articles →An owner's fifth annual check-in on his 1023E, covering two things almost no other video addresses: the active brake/bell-crank recall affecting the 1023E, 1025R, and 2025R, and a $250 flat-face hydraulic coupler upgrade from Hydros Plus that stopped chronic leaks. Hour-meter is shown (46.9 this year). Coverage is casual and brief; buyers wanting a deep spec or performance rundown won't find it here, but long-term owners tracking recall news or coupler fixes will.
An individual owner-operator sharing informal annual updates from personal use of the tractor on flat Florida terrain.
It involves the bell crank housing on the brake, affecting the 1023E, 1025R, and 2025R. John Deere issued a stop use, stop sale order on these tractors.
Yes, the owner says he had chronic leaking from a regular coupler before, but after installing the $250 flat face couplers he had no leaking issues after the first day.
The hour meter shows 46.9 hours for the year, with about 57 hours used total that year, the lowest usage year the owner has had.
