Finally installed this this weekend.
As far as being an "OEM" kit (Land Pride is owned by Kubota) and paying close to double what an aftermarket kit like the Summit one, I'm not very impressed.
From my limited understanding/searches there are basically 3 options. The Kubota diverter valve kit, the Land Pride third function kit, and the Summit third function kit (as well as multiple other kits that look identical, Summit may not be the original "designer").
I didn't bother with the Kubota kit because I wanted the extra flexibility from an actual third function.
The Land Pride kit is $1275, the Summit ones run from $699 up.
The Summit kits seem to all be mounted by the right lower loader base on the floor pan.
This may not be an option with the quick disconnect manifold for the loader. I'm not sure exactly how much space the kits leave.
I intend to post a detailed thread about the kit/installation; wanted to put some info here for future searches.
The LP kit locates the valves by the left base of the loader, which means the lines have to cross under the tractor from the right side to the left. There' isn't really a great way to do this.
There's the driveshaft from the engine to the transmission, then the shaft from the trans to the front axle, and because of placement of the shafts you can't just tuck the lines up into the frame area.
I also don't know how the routing would impact a mower deck; I don't have one.
The directions have you install the electrical connections to the valves once the bracket and valves are already installed.
You can't connect (or disconnect) the lower connection with the valves inside the bracket, there's about 1/8" of bracket in the way. You have to remove the valve, connect the connector, then reinstall the valve. I ended up grinding a notch so the connector will side in.
The suggested wiring routing isn't great. They have you route it across (from right to left) under the frame.
I routed it along the frame and up by the battery and across above the frame and floor pan.
It would have been nice to ideally have the valves on the right side somewhere. That would have made the lines shorter and ran along the right frame rail without having to worry about crossing over.
Barring that (the quick disconnect "manifold" is by the right base of the loader; would cause fitment issues) it would have been nice to have hard lines or at least longer lines to potentially route different.
The kit should have had another 45* or 90* elbow to connect the line to the 90* elbow on the loader valve. The line is sitting in a tight S shape right now. Not ideal.
The lines routed through the loader would benefit from being hard lines instead of soft. And the loader lines don't have any abrasion cover other than a few feet by the valve connection. Nothing where they run tight against the already installed lines.
No dust covers for the front 2 pioneer connections. They're right up front catching all the dirt as you move around.
The battery connections could be better.
There are 2 correctly sized ring terminals (positive and negative terminal clamp bolts are different sizes), but on the positive bolt you have to completely remove the bolt from the clamp and insert the ring terminal between the clamp because the ring is too large to fit on the outside of the clamp (the outside of the clamp is U shaped, the ring is larger than the U).
I realize these are somewhat nitpicky. The issue I have is that (once again) this is basically an OEM kit, sold at OEM prices.
If this was the Summit kit at half the price I wouldn't be as disappointed.
I put an after market kit on my tractor and bought the hard pipe that goes on the loader arms from Kubota. I think the cost for the tubes was around $50.
The tubes mounted in the factory pre drilled and tapped holes
Was this for a BX23S?
Or something else?
As far as I can tell the Kubota diverter kit for the BX doesn't have any lines to speak of, it's just a valve piped into the curl circuit by the cylinder. Maybe a short several inch line to connect. That's it.
