diff --git a/solr/CHANGES.txt b/solr/CHANGES.txt
index 886eef0ffb1..8ae83ca49e9 100644
--- a/solr/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/solr/CHANGES.txt
@@ -134,6 +134,9 @@ New Features
 * SOLR-4030: Allow rate limiting Directory IO based on the IO context.
   (Mark Miller, Radim Kolar)
 
+* SOLR-4166: LBHttpSolrServer ignores ResponseParser passed in constructor.
+  (Steve Molloy via Mark Miller)
+
 Optimizations
 ----------------------
 
diff --git a/solr/solrj/src/java/org/apache/solr/client/solrj/impl/LBHttpSolrServer.java b/solr/solrj/src/java/org/apache/solr/client/solrj/impl/LBHttpSolrServer.java
index a5b244a600b..9180d04588c 100644
--- a/solr/solrj/src/java/org/apache/solr/client/solrj/impl/LBHttpSolrServer.java
+++ b/solr/solrj/src/java/org/apache/solr/client/solrj/impl/LBHttpSolrServer.java
@@ -85,7 +85,7 @@ public class LBHttpSolrServer extends SolrServer {
   private final AtomicInteger counter = new AtomicInteger(-1);
 
   private static final SolrQuery solrQuery = new SolrQuery("*:*");
-  private static final BinaryResponseParser binaryParser = new BinaryResponseParser();
+  private final ResponseParser parser;
 
   static {
     solrQuery.setRows(0);
@@ -189,6 +189,7 @@ public class LBHttpSolrServer extends SolrServer {
   public LBHttpSolrServer(HttpClient httpClient, ResponseParser parser, String... solrServerUrl)
           throws MalformedURLException {
     clientIsInternal = (httpClient == null);
+    this.parser = parser;
     if (httpClient == null) {
       ModifiableSolrParams params = new ModifiableSolrParams();
       params.set(HttpClientUtil.PROP_USE_RETRY, false);
@@ -210,7 +211,7 @@ public class LBHttpSolrServer extends SolrServer {
   }
 
   protected HttpSolrServer makeServer(String server) throws MalformedURLException {
-    return new HttpSolrServer(server, httpClient, binaryParser);
+    return new HttpSolrServer(server, httpClient, parser);
   }
 
 
diff --git a/solr/solrj/src/test/org/apache/solr/client/solrj/impl/LBHttpSolrServerTest.java b/solr/solrj/src/test/org/apache/solr/client/solrj/impl/LBHttpSolrServerTest.java
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..fd166c6ce53
--- /dev/null
+++ b/solr/solrj/src/test/org/apache/solr/client/solrj/impl/LBHttpSolrServerTest.java
@@ -0,0 +1,55 @@
+/**
+ * 
+ */
+package org.apache.solr.client.solrj.impl;
+
+import static org.junit.Assert.*;
+
+import java.net.MalformedURLException;
+
+import org.apache.http.impl.client.DefaultHttpClient;
+import org.apache.solr.client.solrj.ResponseParser;
+import org.junit.Test;
+
+/*
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ * contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+ * this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+ * The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+ * (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+ * the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+
+/**
+ * Test the LBHttpSolrServer.
+ */
+public class LBHttpSolrServerTest {
+  
+  /**
+   * Test method for {@link org.apache.solr.client.solrj.impl.LBHttpSolrServer#LBHttpSolrServer(org.apache.http.client.HttpClient, org.apache.solr.client.solrj.ResponseParser, java.lang.String[])}.
+   * 
+   * Validate that the parser passed in is used in the <code>HttpSolrServer</code> instances created.
+   * 
+   * @throws MalformedURLException If URL is invalid, no URL passed, so won't happen.
+   */
+  @Test
+  public void testLBHttpSolrServerHttpClientResponseParserStringArray() throws MalformedURLException {
+    LBHttpSolrServer testServer = new LBHttpSolrServer(new DefaultHttpClient(), (ResponseParser) null);
+    HttpSolrServer httpServer = testServer.makeServer("http://127.0.0.1:8080");
+    assertNull("Generated server should have null parser.", httpServer.getParser());
+
+    ResponseParser parser = new BinaryResponseParser();
+    testServer = new LBHttpSolrServer(new DefaultHttpClient(), parser);
+    httpServer = testServer.makeServer("http://127.0.0.1:8080");
+    assertEquals("Invalid parser passed to generated server.", parser, httpServer.getParser());
+  }
+  
+}
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