I was looking around "under the hood" of my M4500 with the S2600-A engine and near the thermostat housing, I found a spring loaded lever. I wondered if this was a compression release. I checked my operators manual and there is no mention of this feature there nor is there any mention of it in the starting procedures. I moved it from it's resting position and started the engine using the glow plugs. It fired off almost instantly and reset the lever. I went through the WSM for this tractor and in the rebuilding section, I found an adjustment procedure for the compression release.
For the life of me I don't understand why there is no mention of this feature in the operators manual. I have several tractors, a Ford and a New Holland and their operator manuals and their service manuals are better written and much more comprehensive then anything I have seen from Kubota.
I don't know much about the more modern Kubota tractors. Are their operator and service manuals as poorly written as my M4500?
For the life of me I don't understand why there is no mention of this feature in the operators manual. I have several tractors, a Ford and a New Holland and their operator manuals and their service manuals are better written and much more comprehensive then anything I have seen from Kubota.
I don't know much about the more modern Kubota tractors. Are their operator and service manuals as poorly written as my M4500?