Hydro Transmission question on a BX.

[William1]

Quality Moly high pressure grease. In 100 hours, I went through just two tubes. Not too bad.

Clean the zerks before pumping in grease.
Grease until fresh grease is visible. Leave the excess grease in place, it acts as a barrier to debris getting in. I only wipe it off just before re-greasing. Sort of like cleaning the house before a party.
I grease any segment used every ten hours of use, more often if a really harsh environment.
If I do not use an implement, then once every fifty hours, just to keep it fresh is good.

 

[MadMax31]

I have the milwaukee 12v grease gun. But, I do use it at work almost every day- HVAC....

I grease my deck spindles before each use. Search some threads, not a bad idea to hit em often. My B7610 mostly holds on hills, ive got a few small but steep slopes that make mowing interesting, both finish and bush hogging.

 

[armylifer]

Filled with a washer fluid type solution. Methanol/water maybe? This tractor is WELL worth its price. I've mowed 3 or 4 times already on different parts of the property and its did wonderful. The FEL i worth its weight in gold. I've already moved about 10 tons of gravel and another 10-15 tons of dirt i've had piled up around the property for years. Its making fast work of anything I throw at it. I haven't gotten the hang of taking the bucket off and putting it back on yet....Takes me about 15 mins or so to put it on and around 10 to take it off. But i'm learning.

What grease should I buy for my grease gun? I'm guessing a high temp grease instead of the $1.49 tubes from wal mart.

I am curious as to how many hours you have on it now. In an earlier post you said that it has just 2 hours on it. In the quoted post you mentioned moving "about 10 tons of gravel and another 10-15 tons of dirt". I know that it took me more than 50 operating hours to move that much material in my yard. If you moved that much material already then you may be at or maybe even over the number of hours for the first required maintenance. This means that you have to do your first filter changes and should have already greased all of the zerks on your machine. If you have not greased the go pedal yet that could be where your creeping problem is. Try greasing it up and see if the problem goes away.

I am curious how many hours you have on that machine now.

 

[kris77]

Took about 5 hours to move the pile of gravel and another 5 or 6 for the dirt. I didnt have to move it far. It was already piled up ready to be scooped. I have roughly 17 hrs on it right now probably.

Greased the deck and loader zerks this morning.

 

[armylifer]

Took about 5 hours to move the pile of gravel and another 5 or 6 for the dirt. I didnt have to move it far. It was already piled up ready to be scooped. I have roughly 17 hrs on it right now probably.

Greased the deck and loader zerks this morning.

If you grease all of the zerks every 10 hours of operation you should not have any problems with the operation of that tractor. With that few hours on it you have not really broken it in yet and you may be just a little over-sensitive to it's foibles. Take time to develop a sense for what your tractor is doing and what noises it makes under varying work conditions. Each tractor will develop it's own personality. As new as it is, it still has not "loosened up" in many respects. Kubota has a good warranty and if you have a good dealer the warranty is just that much more valuable. I really don't think that you have anything to worry about.