Front wheel fell off....

[PAB_OH]

I have a newer grey market Kubota, model is GL-21. It's beena great running tractor for almost 2 years now and done everything I've asked of it.

This afternoon I was cruising dow ny driveway to load it up on the trailer to take to a friends so he could use it while I am out of town next week. Well I made it almost 1/2 way down my 1/4 mile drive and I heard a loud pop, the front end nose-dived and I watched the front right side wheel roll out into the yard.

At first I though something happened to the lug nuts/studs. Nope, the axle stub busted! It is a 4WD tractor so I'm not sure if I'll be able to easily replace this but I'm guessing it's going to be a fairly unique part to this tractor. Maybe I'll be lucky and this will be a common part among a lot of the Kubotas. My first guess would be a L2800 since it had the same engine and seems to look (aesthetically) the same as my GL-21.

If any of you parts suppliers out there with contacts in Japan can get this part for me please let me know. If price is reasonable and I can afford it I may just replace both sides. I am a frim believer that if one of something goes bad on a machine chances are good the other ones aren't too far behind. Maybe overkill in most situations but this would have been disastorous if the wheel would have been on the down hill side. I don't even want to imagine what could have happened.

I don't have a parts manual or anything for the driveline on this tractor other than the D1403 engine so I have no idea what the part is called or what the part number would be. I am getting a shiny new digitial camera later this week so I can post pictures when I get back in state if it will help. If you know what the part is please let me know and if you can get it even better!!

I have some serious driveway maintenance to do in the coming weeks with the constant thaw-freeze cycle common in NE Ohio this time of year so I'm a little rushed. I can wait if I have to of course.

Thanks in advance for any help!

Phil

[mopacman]

All that I know about this would be that an L245 DT would be easy to replace that part......Larry

[lens12]

I'm checking with Japan & will contact you when I have pricing.

[PAB_OH]

Len,
Thanks.

A couple of others are checking too. P/N is 37410-57325 (earlier P/N's include 37410-57323 & 37410-57324, I'm not sure what the differences are though).

[PAB_OH]

Finally got the axle taken apart. Here's some pics...

[PAB_OH]

Hey Len,
I had another question for you. Please check your PM's.

[PAB_OH]

Update...

I've tried Western Kentucky and they had a part of a "L-21" but apparently that model is slightly different as the spline on the shaft has 26 teeth vs. 22 teeth on my axle. Thanks to Robyn down there who worked with me and measured their part to my print so that I didn't order the wrong part.

One of the members of this forum overseas can get me the part but it is understanbly expensive once all the currency conversions and shipping are added. I want to say publicly "Thanks" to Micg for all his help. Without him I'm sure I'd still be trying to figure out what I need instead of where to get it.

One of the grey dealers in Canada can get me the part as well and again it's pretty expensive but I understand why.

Also I want to say "Thanks" to Len Sheaffer. In the end the price was reasonable and I can now do both sides instead of one. Don't know how long the slow boats from China (Japan) are but hopefully I'll be up and running before too long!

[buppy69]

Everything Len has ordered for me from Japan has been delivered much faster than I expected.

Eugene

[PAB_OH]

Good to know.
I have 6" of snow on my driveway! I doubt the parts will be here in time to clean it up but it sure brings into focus how much I rely on the tractor now.