Am going to take a different approach. He says the tractor operates (he has put about 75 hours on it since the green oil was flushed out), but that everything squeals when turning (PTO, clutch, etc.). He has not mentioned having any hydraulic leaks.
Here is my take:
1. A lawsuit is expensive and a major diversion that possibly could take years off one's life through the overall frustration of a long-running process.
2. The dealer is not going to do anything more for this gentleman.
3. The choice I would make is to run the tractor until something breaks. To forestall breaking something and to quiet the squealing, I'd put the best possible hydraulic fluid into the tractor and run it, run it, run it for hundreds of hours. My thinking is the squealing will eventually go away as whatever the greenstuff put on the rotating surfaces slowly gets stripped away through hours of usage.
Kubota tractors are built tougher than their specifications and my guess is your tractor will eventually straighten-up and fly right with another hundred hours on the clock.
I do not own a Kubota and have a question for the group:
Does the PTO have some sort of clutch pack? Does it work in any semblance to the clutches in an anti-slip differential? Anti-slip differentials have special oil to help the clutches "bite". Is the squealing possibly being caused by oil that is precluding the clutches from "biting together"? If so, then it would surely seem the Kubota original specification lubricant would have the necessary additive.
At any rate, if it were me, I would not screw around with lawyers, the store or the dealership because IMHO it is a waste of time and a source of extreme frustration. I'd run the tractor until something broke (but keeping good, fresh oils in it).
Bill in NC
Here is my take:
1. A lawsuit is expensive and a major diversion that possibly could take years off one's life through the overall frustration of a long-running process.
2. The dealer is not going to do anything more for this gentleman.
3. The choice I would make is to run the tractor until something breaks. To forestall breaking something and to quiet the squealing, I'd put the best possible hydraulic fluid into the tractor and run it, run it, run it for hundreds of hours. My thinking is the squealing will eventually go away as whatever the greenstuff put on the rotating surfaces slowly gets stripped away through hours of usage.
Kubota tractors are built tougher than their specifications and my guess is your tractor will eventually straighten-up and fly right with another hundred hours on the clock.
I do not own a Kubota and have a question for the group:
Does the PTO have some sort of clutch pack? Does it work in any semblance to the clutches in an anti-slip differential? Anti-slip differentials have special oil to help the clutches "bite". Is the squealing possibly being caused by oil that is precluding the clutches from "biting together"? If so, then it would surely seem the Kubota original specification lubricant would have the necessary additive.
At any rate, if it were me, I would not screw around with lawyers, the store or the dealership because IMHO it is a waste of time and a source of extreme frustration. I'd run the tractor until something broke (but keeping good, fresh oils in it).
Bill in NC