Help please: BT750 Backhoe, mounting and spool valve

[sportscarclinic]

Greetings all,

After searching for an affordable skidsteer, I luckily decided the B7100 Kubota was a better bet for my purposes. Last Saturday morning, a one owner B7001 showed up on CL literally as I was doing my first serious search. Within an hour my 9 year old son and I were loaded and underway for a three hour drive to Yakima, Washington to pick-up our first tractor.

Then, as luck would have it, two days ago a BT750 backhoe showed up on CL, VERY reasonably priced because it's missing it's spool valve. No time was wasted making another two hour road trip to pick-up the attachment.

At this point I have determined that what I need to find is a top link bracket from a B20. Please contact me if you have one to sell.


Thanks much for any help.

 

[100 td]

New spools at 2000 or second hand if you can find them. Ring some tractor part recylers.Aftermarket 6 stick from ~ 250, joystick type from ~ 390, probably cheaper if you look hard. Depends on how much money you want to spend. I learnt on a MF 6 stick(4 way) and it works just the same, 2 stick is not necessary. Somewhere it was mentioned there were some cheap old stock kubota valves going on the net but I didn't see them.
Someone with a 21 will shoot you some pics of the mount , shouldn't be that hard to make something up. Realistically just an open hinge with locking pins or wedges at top of cradle should suffice I expect. Will need to be strong though. Good luck!

 

[sportscarclinic]

Thanks for your reply. Since, this posting, I went out and bought a B2150, which looks like a whole lot better fit for the backhoe than the little B7100. Now that I've got a tractor with an actual subframe, I don't think the mount will be too tough to fabricate.

I'd sure like to hear about any used spool valves, if someone knows where I can find one.

 

[Lil Foot]

http://www.surpluscenter.com

 

[100 td]

If you don't do any good, these prices make things cheap (to me at least)
www.ebay.com/itm/231838024954
www.ebay.com/itm/231835956242
No idea if they are any good, looks like the joystick is the last one

 

[North Idaho Wolfman]

I luckily decided the B7100 Kubota was a better bet for my purposes. Last Saturday morning, a one owner B7001 showed up on CL

You do know that a B7001 and a B7100 are not the exact same tractor, and you can not just interchange the two as the same tractor.

 

[100 td]

Could have been a typo as his equipment shows B7100, maybe he'll move it on now he has a B2150 to shove the hoe on.

 

[sportscarclinic]

Thanks for the replies. The entire linkage is still present on this backhoe, so it would be nice to have an original type valve block if I can find something that fits in a reasonable timeframe.

Otherwise the first valve 100td mentioned on eBay looks like a real viable option, and the price is right.

North Idaho Wolfman: Thanks, it's actually a Zen-noh B7001, but I have referred to it as a B7100 here and elsewhere. I was under the impression it was mechanically the same tractor in every respect, only the markings, and rim size being different?

Anyway 100td is correct, I bought a B2150 for the backhoe (and more recently a B6000 with a tiller and front blade), so the B7001 is going to be someone else's tractor soon.