Do I have a problem?

[bucktail]

Now I know how to mess with you guys. Lucky none of you live very close.

 

[Cayuga]

Looks like the muffler bearing off the right engine of a 737 Max. Probably fell off during a test flight.

My worst fears realized!!

 

[BobInSD]

I’ve owned my tractor for just about two years now, and just about a month ago my wife came to me with a 5/16 nut and threaded section of what I assume was a 5/16 bolt. All nice and shiny Kubota orange paint on it. To this day, I wonder what part of my tractor is going to fall off. The only thing that it may have been was the original shear bolt that was on my front mounted snowblower. But I sheared that off last year just after using my blower for the first time. I do check thing pretty good when I do my scheduled maintenance, but I still look and wonder where it came from.

Shear pins for my snowblower are just grade 2 bolts. My daughter recognizes them and saves them for me. (Cheapo Dad likes to recover the nuts). My missus freaks out every time she finds one. I don't think I broke any this year, so maybe that's behind us.

 

[Old_Paint]

Hi,

First - thanks for all of the fast/great replies!

We have a long dirt driveway. The tractor was delivered at the top of the driveway. I found the o-ring near my garage about 1 mile from where they dropped off the tractor, so it wasn't from the delivery truck/trailer.

No orange paint on the o-ring.

I'm not sure that it even came off of my tractor, but the timing is suspicious and I'm a nervous first time tractor owner ;-)

Jeff

If you think you're nervous now, wait til you do that 50H oil change. Tee hee!

Seriously, I'm not so sure it came off the BX unless it was just a round rubber band that was holding a label on somewhere and wasn't cleaned up during prep of the tractor. Put some cardboard under the machine and look for drips for a while. A couple days of getting it nice and warm then parking on the cardboard will let you know if you're leaking somewhere. No leak, no problem. If you find a leak, then call the dealer you got it from and have them pick it up and find the leak and fix it. It's brand new, and you shouldn't have to lift a finger for something that isn't right.

I had similar o-rings fall off the cylinders as DW described. So far, 4 of them. Spooked me just a little when I found first one too, but once I saw they were free to move on the cylinder rod (and only 1 had orange paint on it), I figured out they were painting masks. That one's a lot thicker than any I found.

Kubota tractors get a LOT of paint on the chassis, engine, and support structures. It's not very good if that paint gets on something that has to slide through an oil seal. Paint chips will lodge in a seal and you'll be dumping oil pretty fast through the tiniest cavity between the seal and the shaft, and the seal will certainly wear faster.

Having purchased cylinders for several projects at work, most all new one come with a protective O-ring around the rod and pushed up next to the rod seal to protect it when OEM's paint their assemblies. They're designed to dry-rot very quickly and fall off. I seriously doubt Kubota is actually manufacturing cylinders, but more likely contracting a cylinder manufacturer to do that job for them to their specifications.