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  1. Kubota Newbie

    2009 L3400 VS Ford 3000

    Bulldog, Your wallet and your tires will eventually thank you for buying iron weights. JD, Case-IH, Titan Wheel (major ag wheel manufacturer), and Michelin all suggest avoiding liquid ballast if possible. A 3 year European-Union/Spanish study found that liquid ballast did not improve the...
  2. Kubota Newbie

    Middle Buster

    Back home in eastern Ohio we had some of that red stuff. An Upshur Clay Loam (more emphasis on the clay part:)). If you plowed it damp at all and it dried out it was like disking bricks, you'd go over and over and over it before getting anything that even resembled a seed bed.
  3. Kubota Newbie

    Middle Buster

    Hey Guys, I'm actually in the soil conservation biz, almost 30 years now. The one thing about tillers and disk's is that they are GREAT soil compaction tools, and used repeatedly will create a pretty significant compaction layer immediately below their working depth. Especially if the soil...
  4. Kubota Newbie

    L2250 front to rear weight ratio

    It's more important how you position it on the trailer than what the front/rear weight split is on the tractor. For good towing you need to have a load on the trailer tongue (otherwise it will sway and braking performance and handling of your truck will suffer). Pull the tractor forward on the...
  5. Kubota Newbie

    New to me b6100-now engine problems!

    Ditto what eserv and SD Vic said. Except that... I wouldn't waste my time and money just "re-ringing" ANYTHING unless I was just planning on unloading it real soon. If it's going to come apart, bore and hone to an oversize piston or sleeve and re-bore to standard. Your mechanic "feels" he...
  6. Kubota Newbie

    New to me b6100-now engine problems!

    I don't get it! If this thing "ran ok" but just "smoked a little from the breather", meaning that it started ok and didn't blow white smoke from the exhaust before this mechanic got ahold of it. But now... it will barely start and blows white smoke continuously when it does run after new rings...
  7. Kubota Newbie

    M5700 (2001) 4WD/Transmission problem

    Shuttle transmission???? The clutch supposedly has a modulator valve integrated into it's operation that somehow controls the clutch pack pressures/release points. Sounds like maybe yours is thinking for some reason that it should be engaging two clutch packs at a time while the clutch is...
  8. Kubota Newbie

    3 Point "Hiccup"

    Just an inch or so, maybe less, real quick up and then back down to where it was. Far as I know they're OE Kubota (it has dual rear remotes). Only had the tractor since last fall.
  9. Kubota Newbie

    3 Point "Hiccup"

    Here's a question, probably for SD Vic, but someone else might have experienced it. On my M4500, whenever I use the hyd remotes the lower 3 point links "jump" a little. Is this a typical thing with the older M series tractors, or do I need to go clear through the adjustment procedure in the...
  10. Kubota Newbie

    bx 3pt hitch

    Here's the problem... you're probably not going to pick the whole shed up in the manner you describe, rather, just one end of it (it would be terribly unstable lifted in that manner). Therefore, you are essentially towing/pulling/sliding the shed. Which coincidentally is the same size as my...
  11. Kubota Newbie

    Still Learning 2

    We'll send you a bill. :D Hey SD Vic, what's the current hourly shop rate for advice? Glad it worked out for you. But I'm kind of hoping that you don't get too many more chances to use it this year.
  12. Kubota Newbie

    2009 L3400 VS Ford 3000

    Short answer... Yes to both. 35 hp in any color tractor today is not the same as 35 or 40, 40 years ago. Mostly because the older tractors usually ran a lot slower and the hp rating was made by having really good engine torque numbers. Today's compact/sub-compact lines with a 40 +/- hp rating...
  13. Kubota Newbie

    Hydraulic puzzler?

    RCtoywizard, Have no fear! You should not encounter this problem working off the control for the rear remotes on the tractor. Totally different animal. RC
  14. Kubota Newbie

    Furnace Oil -> Tractor

    I don't know if what you fellows up in Canada get for home heating oil is different than the stuff we here in the lower 48 get or not. BUT, the stuff we get down here is the dirtiest, stinkiest, nasty rotten stuff you can imagine getting out of a tank. There's no way I'd put it in anything with...
  15. Kubota Newbie

    Still Learning 2

    1. Unfortunately, you can still rip a hose in two before it comes unplugged, trust me on that. :rolleyes: 2. No, you can't blow the male coupler out of the tractor coupler with the hydraulic pressure. 3. I've never bothered to bleed implement lines, suppose it can't hurt, especially for those...
  16. Kubota Newbie

    Still Learning 2

    Screw a hose into it and YANK! It'll pop out. RC
  17. Kubota Newbie

    TLB 48 with "run away" engine

    It's probably an injector pump issue, BUT, diesels do not run "ungoverned" as mentioned earlier. True, they are not governed by a butterfly valve as a gas engine is. But there is a governor assembly in the injector pump system. In your case probably either the injector pump governor is sticking...
  18. Kubota Newbie

    Still learning

    OK.... This is pretty simple. You've done the hard part, made the mounting plate etc, etc,. You also have the hose and the quick disconnects for the swing cyls on the blade which you've figured out are smaller than standard farm couplers. You've probably also noticed that that your hose is a...
  19. Kubota Newbie

    Still learning

    This is a fairly new tractor you have (new by my standards is anything newer than about 1990). this might be a question for SD Vic, BUT, It should have standard "ISO" or what are commonly referred to as "Pioneer" female ends. They will also be the same as "new style" John Deere. Order a "new...
  20. Kubota Newbie

    B8200hst Not Charging

    Oh heck! You're in Granville, about 20 miles away! If your NAPA doesn't have a test stand the one here in Mount Vernon does, the Utica store at US 62 on 661 might have one. I've got a WSM for a 85 vintage M4500 but I don't know if the test procedure is the same for your B alternator and/or...