B3200 HST Pedal Vibration?

PSDStu · May 11, 2009

I was out bushogging today for a couple of hours and I noticed that as soon as I ran the throttle up to around 2200 RPMs that I could feel a steady vibration through my boot from the FWD HST pedal.

I put almost 900hrs on my B7510 and I never felt anything from the HST pedal.

Before I call my dealer I was wondering if anyone else has felt this HST pedal vibration starting at around 2200rpms?

Stu

PSDStu · May 12, 2009

I just went outside this morning to start-up my tractor to see if maybe because I was bushogging that maybe my cutter was causing the vibration.......it's not the cutter.

My tractor just seems to vibrate an awful lot....... the HST pedal, clutch pedal, and brake pedals all seem to vibrate, and the higher the rpm, the more the vibration.

Guess I will call my dealer and ask them to take a look at this.... I sure don't want to hear "This is just normal".....

Stu

ChuckinNH · May 12, 2009

If you do a search, you will find much discussion on this subject with both the B3030, and B7800. Since the B3200 is the same tractor / engine I expect that we will hear some discussion about them too.

Tommyp61 · Jul 15, 2009

I also have a B3200 with 11 hours and it vibrates like crazy,thru the pedals, steering wheel, and seat. It makes a high pitch squeal,going forward in any gear,but not in reverse. The backhoe makes all kind of squeals when I move the levers,its hard to control ,very jerky. Does anyone else have these problems? This is my second Kubota, the first was a BX24 and I loved it,then I got that bug,you know more power.

NH-Rob · Jul 15, 2009

I have 9 hrs on mine and do notice vibration. It does not effect the opperation of the tractor but I notice the 3ph and top link are alway getting loose. I expect to need to tighten many bolts over the years with this machine. The only strange sound I get is when you let the loader down and it makes noise sounds like a relief valve letting hydro by pass or something.
Rob

JOHNTHOMAS · Jul 15, 2009

I have a B3200 and rarely run it over 2000 rpm. There is some vibration at 2000 and it does increase some with more rpm but not enough to be a bother or concern to me. I had a B7800 for 3 years and I'm sure it vibrated some but again never a concern to me. The BX I own does run "smoother" than the B and at higher rpms..

PSDStu · Jul 15, 2009

Tommyp61 said:
I also have a B3200 with 11 hours and it vibrates like crazy,thru the pedals, steering wheel, and seat. It makes a high pitch squeal,going forward in any gear,but not in reverse. The backhoe makes all kind of squeals when I move the levers,its hard to control ,very jerky. Does anyone else have these problems? This is my second Kubota, the first was a BX24 and I loved it,then I got that bug,you know more power.

Tommy,

As you can see I started this thread and continue to have the vibration issues you discussed. Unlike some of the others here, I mainly operate my tractor at PTO engine RPM and thats where the vibrations are most notable. I have not had any of the squeal issues.

Although it probably won't make much difference, I would suggest that you contact your dealer and make them aware of the vibration issues. My dealer knows about them, and even had a Kubota rep take a look and he saw/felt them as well.

Is/Has anything been done.......nope.....and I'm not holding my breath that anything will.......but Kubota I think needs to hear from those owners who have this issue.

I suspect that there maybe others, but for many this is there first tractor and don't have anything to compare it with... so they may figure that it's just the way it is.

I also just received my Customer Survey from Kubota the other day and was quite lengthy in pointing out my disapointment in the high level of vibrations that I experince when operating at PTO engine RPM.

I really like my B3200.........except when I have to Mow or Bushog....then it's just a numbing vibration in the seat, ROPS, pedals, the 3point hitch, and toplink.

Best of luck with your B3200.

Stu

LBrown59 · Jul 15, 2009

PSDStu said:
I just went outside this morning to start-up my tractor to see if maybe because I was bushogging that maybe my cutter was causing the vibration.......it's not the cutter.

My tractor just seems to vibrate an awful lot....... the HST pedal, clutch pedal, and brake pedals all seem to vibrate, and the higher the rpm, the more the vibration.

Guess I will call my dealer and ask them to take a look at this.... I sure don't want to hear "This is just normal".....

Stu

Sorry but This is just normal"

red4now · Jul 15, 2009

"I really like my B3200.........except when I have to Mow or Bushog....then it's just a numbing vibration in the seat, ROPS, pedals, the 3point hitch, and toplink."

Ditto on that comment - I really like mine as well - over 30 hrs on now and when mowing, my workaround is to find what I called "sweetspots" and am actually finding a few in the 2000 + range. Other day found another one where everything was so smooth - mower down, in M, and moving forward - it was ...sweet..sorry, couldn't think of another word.. ;-)

Still waiting for my customer survey to arrive and will document this situation as well. Yes agree this is important for owners to let Kubota know so that they can improve an already good product.

PUSHINDIRT · Jul 15, 2009

My dad has a 7800 and after a while of operation it has a "numbing" effect. Nothing so bad that I or he would stop using the machine. Usually if we change the RPM's the vibration changes and is not so bad. If the 3200 were out when I bought my 2920 I would have gone with the bigger machine even with the minor vibration issues.