thedevilyoulove
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Equipment
L3901 HST with LA525 FEL, Land Pride RCF2572, pallet forks, 3 pt carry all
A few days ago I noticed that one of my rear tires was leaking solution. Well, over the past several days another issue with my otherwise extremely dependable Kubota L3901 HST began to rear it's ugly face. Tractor is a 2015 and had 275 hours on it. I purchased it new and have performed all the required maintenance.
My tractor is an HST, and when I pushed the petal down to go, the tractor would sometimes not move. I'd play with the petal and it would sometimes go again, and sometimes it wouldn't. Forward or backward didn't matter. Other times I'd be driving along and it would slowly come to a stop even though I hadn't moved the petal at all. I checked the hydraulic fluid and it was normal. I could almost always make the issue happen by going up a hill or by turning.
As this problem began to happen more frequently, I noticed that putting the tractor in 4wd would make it move again as if nothing was wrong. I suspected that the rear wheels were still not working, and that was confirmed when going up a muddy hill today, and only the front tires were spinning. The HST was not making any terrible noises or anything and there were no dash lights indicating any problem at all.
Hoping that the HST petal was having issues, I took the floor board off and cleaned out out all the grass and stuff that was under there. No improvement whatsoever. Finally I had my wife get on the tractor and drive it around. It was doing the same thing for her, where it wouldn't move forward/backward at all. But I could see exactly what was happening, and I was relieved that it wouldn't cost me too much (hopefully, lol).
Here was the problem: the solution leaking from one of the rear tires made the wheel spin on the tire bead. So in other words, the wheel was spinning just fine, but the tire wasn't. Glad it wasn't a bad HST!
My tractor is an HST, and when I pushed the petal down to go, the tractor would sometimes not move. I'd play with the petal and it would sometimes go again, and sometimes it wouldn't. Forward or backward didn't matter. Other times I'd be driving along and it would slowly come to a stop even though I hadn't moved the petal at all. I checked the hydraulic fluid and it was normal. I could almost always make the issue happen by going up a hill or by turning.
As this problem began to happen more frequently, I noticed that putting the tractor in 4wd would make it move again as if nothing was wrong. I suspected that the rear wheels were still not working, and that was confirmed when going up a muddy hill today, and only the front tires were spinning. The HST was not making any terrible noises or anything and there were no dash lights indicating any problem at all.
Hoping that the HST petal was having issues, I took the floor board off and cleaned out out all the grass and stuff that was under there. No improvement whatsoever. Finally I had my wife get on the tractor and drive it around. It was doing the same thing for her, where it wouldn't move forward/backward at all. But I could see exactly what was happening, and I was relieved that it wouldn't cost me too much (hopefully, lol).
Here was the problem: the solution leaking from one of the rear tires made the wheel spin on the tire bead. So in other words, the wheel was spinning just fine, but the tire wasn't. Glad it wasn't a bad HST!