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Originally Posted by nobull1  A big concern of mine is the tightness of the QA to the buckets. I know some of the pin type QA are loose and noisy. It drives me nuts listening to clunking buckets due to worn bushings or a loose fitting QA. It will take me many years to hit 2500 hours, and if yours is still relatively tight that should work for me. Am I right in assuming it has a bolt that tightens into a wedge and as it wears it just tightens further? |
It is not a wedge style coupler like John Deer uses. The ears on the bucket are cut out to line up with bushings that are on the quick coupler, similar to a wedge style, after the bucket is on the coupler, a pin is slid through the rear of the bucket ears and the coupler and held on with a hitch pin. I know what you mean about clunking qa's, I had a WainRoy setup on a previously owned excavator, it was like throwing a fishing line out after about 800 hrs
I think you would be nothing but happy with the Kubota setup.