Hello all,
Helping out a neighbor here who has a B3030 her late husband bought with the goal of making a sweet, comfortable snow clearing machine in Fairbanks, Alaska. I installed the hydraulic kit (tractor did not originally come with a front end loader), mid mount, rear blade, and front mounted snowblower they had purchased previously. I did this 2 years ago, then showed her how to use it and it's been relatively smooth sailing. There was an issue with a pressure differential (in our extreme cold) popping off the hydraulic fill cap (fixed), She left the fuel cap off and parked it outside in a snowstorm (fixed), and I was about to solve the problem of the freezing control cables by separating them and putting lightweight grease or oil in the cable housings to prevent water from getting in and freezing them.
Well the other day she sends me pictures of the mid pto shaft in the snow. I go and take a look and the ujoint had broken on the tractor/transmission side. Turns out she'd been disengaging the pto to hop out and move something or other and then getting back in and re-engaging the pto with the the engine at full speed. Well and new $500 shaft (Kubota doesn't sell the parts separate) and some lessons learned and she's up and running again........
Until today, she calls and said 'the shaft came out again, but it's leaking fluid'. Well from the pictures, her new shaft is fine, but the housing and two bearings holding the output shaft for the mid-pto broke off and fell down. I'm about to take a trip and haven't looked at it myself yet. Is the mid-pto on these tractors a bolted up affair to the main transmission hopefully? Or is this a piece of the transmission housing that means the whole transmission will have to come out and be replaced? From the pictures she sent me, the stub shaft that the pto drive shaft goes onto is now on the ground. It has a gear and two bearings + the broken piece of housing.
anyone ever fixed something like this? Thanks for your help.
Helping out a neighbor here who has a B3030 her late husband bought with the goal of making a sweet, comfortable snow clearing machine in Fairbanks, Alaska. I installed the hydraulic kit (tractor did not originally come with a front end loader), mid mount, rear blade, and front mounted snowblower they had purchased previously. I did this 2 years ago, then showed her how to use it and it's been relatively smooth sailing. There was an issue with a pressure differential (in our extreme cold) popping off the hydraulic fill cap (fixed), She left the fuel cap off and parked it outside in a snowstorm (fixed), and I was about to solve the problem of the freezing control cables by separating them and putting lightweight grease or oil in the cable housings to prevent water from getting in and freezing them.
Well the other day she sends me pictures of the mid pto shaft in the snow. I go and take a look and the ujoint had broken on the tractor/transmission side. Turns out she'd been disengaging the pto to hop out and move something or other and then getting back in and re-engaging the pto with the the engine at full speed. Well and new $500 shaft (Kubota doesn't sell the parts separate) and some lessons learned and she's up and running again........
Until today, she calls and said 'the shaft came out again, but it's leaking fluid'. Well from the pictures, her new shaft is fine, but the housing and two bearings holding the output shaft for the mid-pto broke off and fell down. I'm about to take a trip and haven't looked at it myself yet. Is the mid-pto on these tractors a bolted up affair to the main transmission hopefully? Or is this a piece of the transmission housing that means the whole transmission will have to come out and be replaced? From the pictures she sent me, the stub shaft that the pto drive shaft goes onto is now on the ground. It has a gear and two bearings + the broken piece of housing.
anyone ever fixed something like this? Thanks for your help.