Recent content by HighMoon

Thought I would report back that a 1-7/16" gap pickle fork worked perfect. Wide enough to not damage the ball joint on the upper end of the links but narrow enough to catch the ball socket face. Tapped the fork in to give it good tension, then tapped on the threaded end of the pin, and it shot...

I have an Autozone just down the road and they should have that. Thanks Captain.

Thanks. I'm going to pick up a ball joint remover. It it is still resisting with that I will give it some heat.

Good idea. I know exactly what you talking about. I don't have one but can pick up.

Thanks, but other than the lift link weight, there isn't any stress on it. I removed the lower lift arm already.

I am in the process of putting a Top N Tilt kit on my L5740. I am having trouble getting the upper lift arm lift pins out of the arm. Does anyone have any tips for getting that guy out. I soaked it in penetrating oil and tried banging on it a bit. I thought before I get more aggressive with...

Used it last week in the snow. Worked fine. We don't have much snow though -- 5 inches maybe. I have used it in snow 3 feet deep before with the old worn tires and definitely wished I had a set of chains, but I was able to manage clearing my road just by being very conservative on how much...

Thanks for sharing that. I got the run around on it when I called. I am going to try an email and see if I can get the same thing you did for my L5740. Appreciate you sharing your success. Thank you.

Nice to hear an insiders perspective. I think customers tend to hang the blame on the dealer, it is natural as that is where they have their service experience. But often I find with little probing that the dealer techs are often the heros and it is the overall service system they are stuck in...

Are you getting the PUSHING on all surfaces: soft soils > firm soils > hard ground? Another thought .. the front do wear quicker than the rear, and with wear an initial Lead condition could become a Lag. Probably not an issue if your tires are still fairly young in life.

When I was trying to figure mine out I was getting 1.56-1.57ish ratio numbers (I have a different model tractor). I'd get a slightly different number if I used tire rolling circumference vs tire static loaded radius, but they were well within 0.01 of eachother. Being a recovering mechancial...

I have heard others, smarter than me, that figured out their Lead/Lag had found Kubota OEM tires had them in a slight Lag situation. So what you say about PUSHING doesn't surprise me.

You got off lucky, only 10 days! I mean that in all seriousness. A dealer had mine for over 80 days. I lost complete use of it over the growing season because they couldn't effectively troubleshoot an intermittant sensor failure problem. I won't go into the story or bore anyone with the...

I had same problem with a different model. Dealers didn't know. Not in manuals. Kubota USA wouldn't tell me. Finally talked to a large farm tire servicer. He told me the approach they use for any brand/model of 4wd ag equipment is to always make sure that the front-to-rear static load...

When I replaced my R4 tires I went with ones that had deeper, and most importantly narrower lugs. The narrower lugs let the mud clear better.