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Bulldog, The M4500 has a common reservoir for all the hydraulics and the tranny, when it was new you'd have been using gear oil for everything. Don't know when they changed them over to the UDT type stuff, my guess would be late 80's early 90's, probably a better question for Service Dept Vic or...

Bulldog, Operators Manual recommendation probably depends on age of the machine. My 1985 M4500 has a common reservoir, manual specs. gear oil, but the recommendation from the dealer is to now use a hydraulic (combined duty hydraulic/transmission fluid) instead. Makes the tranny noisier, less...

I tend to believe that right sided brake pedals became the "industry standard" when hand clutches fell out of favor. The manufacturers who had adopted foot clutches used right side ( a couple used center mount locations but were still intended for right foot use) steering brake pedals for the...

"MOST" of it should be available from the dealer. Just ordered decals for my M4500 last week and they could get about 2/3 of what I needed. More might be available for the little machines since more of them were sold.

Close but no cigar on the night tide blue, got 3 cans today at Walmart. Noticeably lighter than the Kubota blue spray I have from the dealer. Still, it's close enough to use as a base coat, then I can "top coat" lightly with the Kubota paint to get the right color and get a lot more mileage from...

To bend it back into position without breaking it you'll have to remove it, clean it of all oil residue and heat it. Otherwise it'll probably crack.

Ya know... one more thought on this. I don't know about the new Kubotas, but my old M series uses an external rectifier for the alternator (or did use, it now has a single wire delco alternator, a worthy conversion if you have room under the hood). The rectifier is seperate from the voltage...

Oh, and it should measure well over that voltage when running at about half throttle which would normally point to alternator/diode, or regulator issues. Sure everything is hooked up correctly?????

Start out by disconnecting the battery cables, cleaning around the terminals real well, charging the battery fully with a charger and then checking it in a day or two to see if it is loosing voltage from within (leave the cables off). You could have a bad cell, causing it to go down. SORRY...

If you add a pump, why not run it off of a thermostatic switch/relay like the electric fans on newer vehicles. That alleviates the issue with a constant voltage draw and overcirculating the water. Water will still pass through most electric water pumps when off, so if you do not create any...

If it were me, I would want to weld that broken mount from both sides to assure a good repair. But I don't like to weld overhead that much, even with a mig. If you weld only from underneath and you leave even a little of the crack on the top side that the weld does not penetrate the remaining...

White Amur, aka "grass carp"? They will eat cattail sprigs, but not mature cattails. They are cold hardy, no problems here in central Ohio where the ponds regularly freeze over. They are a little like people, voracious eaters when they're young & teenagers, but just fat and lazy when they grow...

Why not replace the top link with a small diameter hyd cyl. Then you can just adjust from the seat via the remotes.

If you're going to use an additive, use one intended for a hydraulic system. There are several out there, I use Lucas's farm hydraulic oil additive in my M4500 just because they (Kubota) now spec the UDT type fluid for it and it originally was shipped with 80w. The UDT being much thinner seems...

Bulldog, I've got the Goodyear DynaTorque II's on my old M. They're a long bar short bar tire too. If money were no object, radials would be the way to go, but for the amount I use the tractor the bias ply's will have to do. When we were pulling the little tractors there was absolutely nothing...

RC48-62 mower book says; RC48-62-F B6200 or B7200 2WD Ser#10001-19999 & 4WD 50001 - 59999 RC48-62A B5200 2WD Ser# 20001 -up & 4WD 60001 -up AND B62 & B7200 2WD 20001-up and 4WD 60001 -up

Make sure that the wires to the fuse block are all in the correct order by color and position on both the in and out sides of the block. Had the same problem on my M4500 when I bought it last fall. Turned out to be a wire out of position on the fuse block. At least on the M5400 some of the...

firejunkie is probably on the right track. There should be a heavy wire retaining ring that you normally get at by pushing the rod guide "down" into the cylinder an inch or so to gain access to. Once it is removed you can remove the rod guide. Sometimes the lower O-ring will hang-up in the...

Yeah, those, or Titans, or whatever the other brands were, they were all about the same. Bars are mighty short, & no clearance for the tire to self clean in muddy conditions. I'm willing to bet side by side in medium soft or wet soil conditions that the ag bars will will walk away from the...

Just came home from the County Fair and was noticing something on many of the new compact utilities (Kubota included). Most of them are being offered with the industrial/loader type bar tread tires rather than traditional ag bar tread tires of the same size. I don't think they're doing this out...