Recent content by Russell King

Well I am glad it went easily but I was really hoping for a more eventful story (à la Runs with Scissors style). But you didn’t even get a chainsaw bar stuck!

A flail mower with the correct blades can cut down saplings in the two inch range. Or you can rent a brush hog for the first mow and buy a flail for use afterwards.

See Post #16 in this thread for a description of how a replacement cover was used on my L185 and a picture of the flow out of the cover and back into the cover along with the tank return line...

Go to this site and look at the illustrated parts lists https://apps.kubotausa.com/illustrated-parts/ There appears to be a few different versions of a “L3130d” so I might be wrong but there appears to be a hydraulic take off block, see picture below. You take the pressure out to your new...

I think you need to get the firewall off completely and then attack the dash. It looks like there are a couple of bolts that attach the firewall that you show in one picture. There are probably two or three more bolts along the bottom of the firewall. On my similar vintage L185 there is a 90...

You can put some type of bearing retention goop from loktite or similar compound on the outer race. Don’t use something that is permanent though, it should not lock it in there until eternity.

I don’t have any idea how much room you have around the edges of the top where you think it is leaking dust into the coil but you might try to fit an air conditioner filter in there somehow. I use a Filtrete cut to fit blue filter (see below). It is a flexible material (plastic?) that will...

I recall that the top link mounting (angles) was removed and then the ROPS was mounted directly to the case. Long studs were threaded directly into the tractor, ROPS mounted on studs, three point angles mounted on same studs then washers and nuts installed to clamp it all together. But that...

@NCL4701 Great story and rescue of the implement. Reminds me of my youth and dad! His favorite saying as he was putting you to work on the tractor was something along the lines of “That tractor wants to kill you, it’s been sitting around just thinking up new ways to rip you apart so don’t be...

Those air bubbles are probably why is leaking out that pipe! The fluid gets foamy and expands its volume and can fill the case with the froth being forced out of any open point. There is probably not too much leakage but more likely a weeping leak that makes a mess over time. The pump could...

You may want to verify that other tractor got the original cover put back on it and not just plugs put in the adapter block (shown above). The original cover allows the fluid to flow through it, so is really just an odd looking piece of pipe. The adapter block diverts the flow like installing...

You could order both the R4 and R3 tires and have one or the other on the tractor as needed. The cost is probably not that great for the second set of tires and wheels.

Please post a video or narrative of how you get this mess down. Is your excavator large enough to get that down or will you have to cut/pull it out. Be safe! I would have to hire that out to someone that knew what they were doing and had proper equipment, the trees in my part of Texas are...

Would you please post a picture of the connections for future reference (and to satisfy my curiosity)?

Use a UDT type fluid. I personally use Traveler brand like this but there are a bunch of options that are similar. Just don’t use a fluid that is “303” fluid of any type - it is supposedly junk these days...