houser52
Gold Member
I had been wanting to make the switch to some type of quick attach for my loader for some time. The only problem was that Kubota didn't offer a specific quick attach for my LA680 loader. Then member "ehb86" posted his thread about his experience with the SSQA and his LA681 loader. He had pointed out that with just a slight modification the SSQA that's made for the LA703 loader will work. Everything went well for ehb86 so I went ahead and ordered the LA703 SSQA.
Well, it came in on Tuesday. The first thing I noticed was how well it is made. It uses thicker steel than what I was expecting and everything is heavy duty. I didn't measure the thickness but it's thicker than 1/4". It also had the 1" attachment pins included. Since the pin's ears were a little wider than the ends of my lift arms and bucket cylinders spacers were needed. I was going to cut spacers from some 1" ID tubing but decided to use 1" washers instead. The washers seemed to fill the space much better. Install the pins and washers, that was it. Very easy.
I had already bought a new quick attach bucket but there was a problem. One of the bottom tabs where the locking pins go through was welded out of position and prevented the pins from locking into place. I did get to attach the bucket a few times just to see how the quick attach works and it worked great.
The bucket was returned this morning. I was just going to swap it for another one but the other one had the same problem so the dealer is going to correct the problem for me there in his shop. He hopes to have it repaired and back to me by the first of next week. I still have to cut the brackets off my forks and weld on the quick attach plate before I can use them but I hope to start on that this weekend.
The quick attach should help me make better use of my attachments because I hated swapping pins. When I get everything together the SSQA is going to be nice.
Thanks again to "ehb86" for his research and advice.
Well, it came in on Tuesday. The first thing I noticed was how well it is made. It uses thicker steel than what I was expecting and everything is heavy duty. I didn't measure the thickness but it's thicker than 1/4". It also had the 1" attachment pins included. Since the pin's ears were a little wider than the ends of my lift arms and bucket cylinders spacers were needed. I was going to cut spacers from some 1" ID tubing but decided to use 1" washers instead. The washers seemed to fill the space much better. Install the pins and washers, that was it. Very easy.
I had already bought a new quick attach bucket but there was a problem. One of the bottom tabs where the locking pins go through was welded out of position and prevented the pins from locking into place. I did get to attach the bucket a few times just to see how the quick attach works and it worked great.
The bucket was returned this morning. I was just going to swap it for another one but the other one had the same problem so the dealer is going to correct the problem for me there in his shop. He hopes to have it repaired and back to me by the first of next week. I still have to cut the brackets off my forks and weld on the quick attach plate before I can use them but I hope to start on that this weekend.
The quick attach should help me make better use of my attachments because I hated swapping pins. When I get everything together the SSQA is going to be nice.
Thanks again to "ehb86" for his research and advice.
