Will this thing ever run again....

[D2Cat]

Been abused, neglected and abandoned.

Has more aches then a first time marathoner!

Needed a new project. Just unloaded yesterday.

 

[D2Cat]

More pictures.

 

[clay45]

She looks pretty clean actually. Hope her restoration goes well for you. I like mine at almost 2000 hours. To me, yours is still new.

 

[D2Cat]

Clay45, you say, "To me, yours is still new."

It's like when you went to the dance and thought you were going to dance with a pretty girl, and then when you held her hand it was rough with warts!!

Look at the oil pan! Warts everywhere.

 

[clay45]

But its only an oil pan.

 

[CaveCreekRay]

Oil pans are for sissies...

You'll have that thing running in...in... eventually.

Lucky tractor that it got to come home with you.

Ray

 

[D2Cat]

It was raining that day and I just set around fiddling on the computer. Every once in a while I would go to CL and snoop. Saw this tractor with a loader and cab with low tires and faded paint. I called about it. Found out he had another tractor also and it had a brush mower. He had a 4' tiller, 8' flail mower, rubber tire loader, small Allis crawler, fork truck....

The ad was 2hrs. old but some of his pictures were not showing up yet on Cl. That's why I didn't SEE the second tractor.

He was 85 miles away, but I told him I'd come and look, if he would promise to give me "first refusal". I did not want to drive that far to find they had been sold, or someone else was walking around looking and trying to make up their mind. "I don't need practice driving!"

After I was down the road a ways, I realized I should have driven a different truck. Then I could rent a trailer and be done if I really wanted something.

Long story, shortened. I bought the L2050 with the 25-60 Landpride mower (which is a finish mower, not a "brush hog") and wend back up yesterday and got it.

 

[85Hokie]

Go ahead.....

tell those who are very nosey ........what cha pay for it ?

and I agree - you'll have the machine purring in a short time!

 

[D2Cat]

Notice in the 3rd picture, the exhaust flapper is missing the cap (however that happens, I don't know). Machine set outside for a couple of years. Water entered, causing more problems. Freeze plug is popped out! So exploratory surgery required. From what the tenant told me it needed a clutch!

The bonus is, I got the side curtains, and the rear tires are good.

 

[Daren Todd]

Looks like a good project So now, 85Hokie has someone to attend meetings with

Looks like it will be a good machine when you get it fixed up. Hopefully it just popped the freeze plug. But with water sitting in there, stuff is probably gonna be rusty. You would have thought they could have bungeed a coffee can to it or something

Good luck with the latest project How did the mower, and the massy turn out?

 

[D2Cat]

Daren, mowed a couple of days ago with the TG1860G. Real nice, agile mowing machine. That thing is almost like a zero turn.

I see those little mowers all the time on KC Craig's List with diesel engines for 2K. If someone is needing a mower which would allow them to have a bigger tractor for other chores and not have to worry about lug or turf tires, this would be a good style choice.

Anyone who is working on one of those Kawasaki water cooled engines, if Kubota tells you the parts are NLA... Well you can go to Kawasaki with the engine number and engine code and get it "from the horses mouth".

The Massey 50, it's been setting in the waiting room! I did notice the loader (MF100) has bronze bushings in all pivot points. Nice feature.

 

[D2Cat]

As of Sunday 5/15 about 6PM the mighty Kubota L2050 let out a big belch and had fire in the hole!! Running like it just got home from the ER. Heart is in fine condition, but legs are injured too bad to walk. Problems in the bellhousing next.

 

[D2Cat]

Have you ever seen a clutch like this?

 

[Daren Todd]

Have you ever seen a clutch like this?

You got plenty of miles left on that clutch!!!! Guess you know why it won't move.

I've always wondered why some folks spend all sorts of money on a piece of equipment just to trash it.

 

[D2Cat]

I sent some pictures to North Idaho Wolfman and we ended up thinking it was ran through a water hole of some kind and left to rust.

The guy I dealt with when I looked at it wasn't the owner. He was trying to get a whole bunch of equipment sold to cover a tax bill the owner had. The owner's husband have a const. co. and he had died a few years ago. He said some grandsons (I think it was) pull started the tractor and mowed the area with a 5' grooming mower. He also said, at some point they could not get it to start by pulling.

The air filter was the only clean part on the tractor. I pulled the filter and cleaned the housing, hose, clamps... and the date on the end of the filter was 3/16/10. It was like brand new. So I would guess somewhere around that time it was basically abandoned.

Throw out bearing was seized. The holder, spring and everything else in the bell housing was fine.

 

[Lil Foot]

Have you ever seen a clutch like this?

I think you found King Tut's Kubota.

 

[dfh1977]

I would plan on a new oil pan and hope somewhere out there is a brand new clutch package. The rest does not look too bad. An aftermarket flapper is a given for muffler


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