So I acquired a L295DT recently at a very good price because it had a frozen clutch and was traded in to a dealer who didn't want to deal with the repair. Got the tractor split today, and pulled flywheel to service it and replace the pilot bearing. That's when I found something very interesting. There was no pilot bearing!
Now I had obtained replacement clutch disc, pressure plate and pilot bearing from AllPartsStore, and some other parts from Kubota dealer. Seems they gave me the correct bearing, because it has 15mm ID and 32mm OD, matching the description of the Kubota bearing. Looks like the bearing will be a tight interference fit in the camshaft end. No problem there. But the end of the Transmission input shaft is quite sloppy within the ID of the pilot bearing. I noticed some wear on the end of the transmission shaft. But it's not horrible, just quite small. Could be cleaned up with some emery cloth. Does anybody know - are these meant to be very loose fits? Guess loose is better than no bearing at all!
Any thoughts on what happened here? Previous owner tried to service the clutch, forgot to put the bearing back in, still didn't work right, left the tractor sit until clutch froze, then traded it in????????????
Tractor engine runs good. No smoke. Transmission shifts into all gears easily. So, I'm inclined to put it back together with a sloppy pilot bearing, and new clutch and T/O bearing, and see how it goes. If anybody out there thinks otherwise, please let me know. Would be a shame to go through all this work and miss something I should have dealt with.
Now I had obtained replacement clutch disc, pressure plate and pilot bearing from AllPartsStore, and some other parts from Kubota dealer. Seems they gave me the correct bearing, because it has 15mm ID and 32mm OD, matching the description of the Kubota bearing. Looks like the bearing will be a tight interference fit in the camshaft end. No problem there. But the end of the Transmission input shaft is quite sloppy within the ID of the pilot bearing. I noticed some wear on the end of the transmission shaft. But it's not horrible, just quite small. Could be cleaned up with some emery cloth. Does anybody know - are these meant to be very loose fits? Guess loose is better than no bearing at all!
Any thoughts on what happened here? Previous owner tried to service the clutch, forgot to put the bearing back in, still didn't work right, left the tractor sit until clutch froze, then traded it in????????????
Tractor engine runs good. No smoke. Transmission shifts into all gears easily. So, I'm inclined to put it back together with a sloppy pilot bearing, and new clutch and T/O bearing, and see how it goes. If anybody out there thinks otherwise, please let me know. Would be a shame to go through all this work and miss something I should have dealt with.