Gittyup
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- Joined
- Oct 4, 2007
- Messages
- 3,159
- Location
- Mid Atlantic
- Tractor
- Kioti CK25 Shuttle Shift, loaded tires, JD X739
Thanks! All is well and the 425 is home. And holy cow this mower is built like a brick talk about heavy duty construction .
Its in the shop now thawing out so I can get all the snirt off it and get it cleans.
Now its a 97 with 605 hours . Dealer said 1000 hours change the hydro fluid. I'm wondering if I should just change it now. Anyone know how many gal it holds?
If it only holds lets say 2 gals that's cheap piece of mind.
I would change the fluid and filter. I don't have the manual in front of me (too nasty to go out to the barn), but as I recall it's only 5 or 6 quarts. I'll look next time I'm out there at the manual. BTW, if you can pick up a used service manual, do so. They give a tremendous amount of detail. Congrats on the 425. I love mine, but thinking hard about a new X739.
Do you know if the cam gear was changed on your new purchase? The early models like yours and mine had plastic cam gears. They fail usually around 700 to 1000 hours. Mine failed at 998 hours. The new CAM gear is all steel, but even if you do the work yourself it's several hundred dollars. I changed mine 2 years ago and while in there it's best to change a lot of other little stuff: water pump, oil pump, governor gear, push rods,valve seals, lots of gaskets and o-rings. All told I think I spent about $550 on parts. Not really that hard of a job: Took me about 3 hours to remove the engine, and about 2 hours to put in the new parts, another hour to put it back in the tractor. Some say you can do this without removing the engine. Probably so, but I felt better making sure I was working from a clean table top with easy access to everything. I hope yours was changed. If not, just drive it until it fails (it won't start and the governor will start acting funny just before it fails outright). It's a great tractor and worth fixing should it fail in you.