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Either you or a welding buddy could knock out one on your own. Depending on what you are looking to grab with it, it can be made fairly light, but then again it couldn't lift a decent sized tree without damaging the grapple. So you have a balance of what you can do vs. what the loader will...

Very cool! I'm glad the turf tires can handle the box. That was about the only thing I would've worried about. Kubota's are really strong pullers... really strong!

In an 'open' system air should self bleed relatively quickly after working the unit. It's possible the dirt in or viscosity of the old fluid was letting a leak seal while new 'super' fluid is fine enough to leak past seals that the old fluid couldn't. This is common when switching from dino to...

I was going to cheat and just use standard battery 'terminal' screw on types on them, and then standard battery terminal covers to protect them. All of this in a nice double gang electrical box. I'll post up pictures when I get it done and the process I followed. I've done it before on other...

Yes, you could be seeing steam, not smoke, or a combination of the two since water would kill combustion efficiency resulting in unburned fuel.

The kind of pressure you are referencing would only happen from a split or pin hole in a hydraulic line under work pressures. Undoing a threaded connector will generally not 'spray' fluid around but it will leak prodigiously until all the pressure comes off of it. Just undo it slowly and once...

Harmonics can do that to any vehicle. You should notice it even on cars and trucks. They have their super smooth speeds and their more rough/squirrely speeds. Modern vehicles have good enough suspensions to make this almost unnoticeable, but you'll notice your tractor suspension has more in...

Is it a mechanical pump or ECM based? It sounds mechanical. Now, it's possible something caused the injector to stay open and the cylinder put in enough fluid to slam the piston and rings (intake valve not opening would eventually fill a piston too). This could've damaged the rings, the...

I am going to do the same thing to my L3200 but I want it to also be 'jump' capable so it would be easy to charge or jump start the tractor from the outlet. I'm going to run 4 gauge wire and have a small 'panel' with both a standard 'cigarette lighter' style outlet and a covered pair of...

I had heard of these 'fancy' exhaust systems and didn't know garbage about them. I didn't even know the acronym... DPF. So, reading this thread, curious about what they were (if anyone else is too... follow) I looked them up on the ol' Wikipedia...

Only thing I've found that doesn't attract dirt and dust is silicone spray. Spray and let dry, that's about it. If you want you can try paraffin wax but it's not easy to work with. Heat the links to 'warm' and rub a bar over the links.

That looks like it might use all the skid steer style attachments with that setup... That would open up, augers, brushes, various buckets, trenchers, concrete working tools (cutters, spreaders, etc.), and a whole bunch of things. Skid Steers are very versatile. (You can even mount backhoes on...

Starter turning fast enough? Slow or dragging starter will probably not fire an engine. Interlocks have been mentioned but there are a bunch of them on these critters, missing one will make it not work. I'd say do exactly what you did when you pull started it. Ask the previous owner if he did...

Exposed to high heat can cause a ton of problems, which is probably why it was scrapped. Now, a dedicated restore will fix all those issues but it's possible you will be putting more into it than it's worth, so consider it a labor of love. Anything plastic or rubber will need to be...

If there is weld material or damage down against the 'spline' teeth you are going to need a needle file set and a ton of patience to correct it by knocking down the 'high spots' with the files near that nut, do not dig into the spline metal at all though! You might get lucky and the weld damage...

Jumping jacks have the highest compaction rating (even greater than a full size asphalt roller with vibration!) but they are harder to work with on gravel, light or heavy. We did it with a first pass using the standard plate and a second with a larger 2' x 2' plywood buffer to 'finish pack' the...

I have not mounted it yet. My intent, if I'm unable to recycle the original mounts (which is likely), is to run angle iron across the ROPS with a proper support assembly down to the closest sturdy mounted point that will accept it and put the box on a metal plate with pins to locate it in the 4...

The 1260 I have has both the clutch and the shear bolt. I hit a dirt mound (invisible in 3' high weeds) with it and the clutch did it's job, the unit slowed down and then came back up to speed after shearing off the top of the mound (new dirt distribution technique I guess). I'm not looking...

Don't think I'd pay $4200 for that Kubota. You can get slightly larger ones of that age for that price (or lower) and have a more versatile unit. I'm not saying that's not a nice 'bota, just saying the price is a little steep. There are other units of that size with diesels in them too. Now...

Ooooh, love this thread. I just bought a new toolbox to replace the plastic one on my L3200... It would be nice to keep a running 'list' in a priority order for such a box on this thread. Any takers on managing that? Here's the toolbox I just purchased to go on the back, now to fill it with...