New to the forum, 1st post. Hoping someone can help bc I’m close to saying the heck w it and selling my Kubota for something a different color. I bought my L3800 brand new in 2013. I use it just for mowing w a brush hog and a tiller for food plots. Only have like 300hrs on it. The issue started a couple years after owning the tractor but in the last few years has gotten to where almost every time I use it and go to engage the pto it makes a loud chattering noise. So I have to crawl under tractor and adjust the pto cable to try to make it tighter. This helps for a little while, maybe a few hours and then it starts to do it again. What is the deal here?
Frustrated w my L3800 pto cable….
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Had a similar problem with my 2002 L4610... probably the same design. Dealer tack welded the cable to the lever on the transmission case so it couldn't slip. Never had trouble with it again, cost nothing to fix. Seemed to me they had probably run into that issue before and figured out a cheap and easy repair.
Interesting. Thanks for the reply. I’ll ask around to a few dealers locally about that
As I remember it the cable was joined to the lever by some kind of clamp the was tightened with a scew. So it wasn't a problem of the screw working loose... you just could not ever tighten it enough to keep the cable from eventually sliding. Not a great design.