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mos defccsial said:Good news. From the looks of it make sure you move the lever full left or full right before going forward or reverse.
mos defccsial said:Good news. From the looks of it make sure you move the lever full left or full right before going forward or reverse.
Been looking online to see if anyone else had their tractor get stuck in gear, now I feel better. I have this same tractor (07) Kubota L3400dt with 400 hrs. and today I just had this same problem for the first time. I had to pry the low range bar back into the shifting lever. I wonder if the linkage is getting wore out, or out of adjustment, or even worse the shifting forks inside the transmission are getting bad?, I hope/prey not!!
This didn't happen when the tractor was new, but my biggest complaint is I always have to hold the clutch down for at least 8sec. before I cold put it in gear with out grinding, and that's a whole different story.
Your sifter is likely jammed like the OPs' in this thread.
The hold the clutch for 8 seconds to prevent grinding is almost normal. Mine is about 5 seconds. But a little grinding wont hurt anything, key word is a little and shift easy.
Yes, my shifter jammed just like the pictures show on a few threads back, my son clamed vise grips on the low range bar and move it back into the shifter.
When I first got the tractor, I had to hold the clutch petal down for about 30 seconds before I put it in gear, I complained to Kubota and they gave me 2 more gallons of transmission fluid to put in it, and that brought it down to 8 seconds, witch was tolerable. Now my ? on the L3400dt is that this model has a 2 stage clutch and it has another clutch adjustment on the right side somewhere behind the loader in a looks like hard to get place, ok now the ?, would this be the cause of having to hold down the clutch before I put it gear, and or has anyone adjusted this, and is hard to do?
Ya know, I may be wrong about the single stage clutch on the L3400, it might have a 2 stage?No, the L3400 is just a single stage clutch. The L3800 has a 2 stage clutch. Having to hold the clutch in for a few seconds is normal with most standard non synchronized gear drive tractors. But this is only after the clutch has been out with the motor running and trans in neutral, that gets everything in there spinning and it takes a few seconds to stop after you press in the clutch. Nothing wrong with it.
If you get in the habit of not letting the clutch out while running and in neutral you will rarely have any grinding.