All metric ?

Fender5803

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New owner of a L3901 and damn happy too. Are all the nuts, bolts, zerks etc metric ? Thanks all ! Love this site ...
 

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It's pretty safe to say it'll be metric. In my experience re-guarding zerks I have had some be standard and some metric, most are metric though.
 

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Are you 100% sure of that?
How did you determine they are not metric?

19mm is a gnats ass from 3/4! .748 vs .75!

All them bolts/nuts would be metric, unless someone did so a switchin' - not to say an SAE would not fit in a pinch! BTDT.
 

Fender5803

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Thanks all !!
I did see in the manuals a chart of the metric sizes.
Best,
-DT
 

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Pretty much the only thing you will find SAE on Kubota is some wheel bolts, some seat and seatbelt hardware. Zerks will all be metric.
Now that Kubota has purchased Great Plains Manufacturing, Inc, we will see a mixture of SAE or Metric on GP and Land Pride equipment
 

Fender5803

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Pretty much the only thing you will find SAE on Kubota is some wheel bolts, some seat and seatbelt hardware. Zerks will all be metric.
Now that Kubota has purchased Great Plains Manufacturing, Inc, we will see a mixture of SAE or Metric on GP and Land Pride equipment
Ahh haaa - so thats it. Thanks all !
 

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Some of the loader bolts are SAE. Generally speaking, the loader bolts that are screwed into the tractor are all metric, but many of the bolts that hold the loader's parts together are SAE. Or that's the way a lot of it used to be, may all be metric now on the LA525 FEL.

To my knowledge, every single bolt on the L3301 and L3901 (and most other Kubota tractor) is metric, including the wheel studs, nuts, and bolts. Lot of times a bolt or nut might be 24mm, but a 15/16" fits pretty good. 22mm=7/8". 19mm=3/4". 17mm=11/16". 16mm=5/8". 14mm=9/16". 13mm=1/2". 12 and 10mm interchange with nothing but 11mm is close to 7/16". 8mm=5/16". As said, almost every bolt (at least that I know of) on the tractor is metric, but sometimes an SAE wrench or socket will fit it in a pinch. And occasionally if you get a rounded metric hex, an SAE can sometimes fit tighter on it, helping to get it out. Used that trick a bunch of times!

Back hoe (BH76) bolts are usually SAE and metric mixed.