Recent content by mpowrd

@butimd: That's my plan for tonight, but long term I'd rather have a cable with a factory post clamp than the clamped-on generic one to reduce the possible corrosion points, but I always have several of the generic ones in my parts bin. I got a new battery today and that plus new post clamps...

It goes under the dash and will require me to remove the engine cover. If someone had already measured theirs, it would save me some time and I could get one on the way home today.

I need to replace the positive battery cable on my 16-year old BX24 because the connector has gotten so deformed over the years that it no longer clamps properly and can still be moved around even with the bolt tightened all the way down. Rather than put a generic clamp-on battery terminal on...

Our BX24 has been a workhorse for over 10 years. Just today, it started doing something I've never seen. It starts fine, but after about a minute, the RPMs drop and it acts like it's starved for fuel. Sometimes just sitting without doing anything will let it recover up to 2400 RPMs or so, but...

I've got a BX24 that has often had intermittent connections in the light switch, probably because I rarely use the lights. Usually it clears up if I cycle the switch a few times. Now, I have a problem where the turn signals/hazard flashers don't light up at all. If I move the switch, I hear the...

I'm thinking of getting another PTO chipper for our BX24. We had a Bearcat 70554 for a while (like the current SC5540) which weighs 450 pounds and I could lift and move it around fine. We had to sell it a few years back and now want to replace it with a CH5540 (chipper, no shredder, but has the...

I just had a small landside take out some of the bedding at the edge of my driveway. A section of driveway about 20 feet long now has a gap below it about 1 foot high and 2 feet wide (going into the driveway). It looks like there's still good bed material directly under the asphalt. Until I...

I'm going to do my own 50 hour service on our BX24 tomorrow and realized I've never heard whether or not the engine and hydro oil drain plugs have crush washers that I should have gotten along with my filters and oil. Can someone verify for me one way or the other? Thanks!

OK, I went to my local dealer to get filters and oils for my 50 hour service. After a rather too long time searching his computer, the parts guy tells me I need two hydro filters (one for the transmission and one for the hydraulics). I went ahead and got both of them, but for the life of me can...

I need some advise from someone out there experienced with hydraulic top-and-tilt setups. I got a Kubota BX24 last fall with a dealer-installed top-and-tilt kit from Gearmore. Tilt cylinder is on the right side (with the factory threaded link on the left). Right now, with the threaded link...

I've got two questions on the hydraulic top-and-tilt setup I got on my BX24. It's a Gearmore kit installed by the dealer at delivery last Nov, but I've only now started to do any serious box blade and rake work. I need some advise from someone out there experienced with hydraulic top-and-tilt...

I've got about 20 hrs on our new BX24 now and while moving some brush piles last week I managed to slice one of the rubber boots that cover the inner joint on the right tie rod. Called my dealer's parts guy this morning and they say the only way Kubota sells that boot with as an assembly with...

Our new BX24 arrived just before Thanksgiving. As it is my wife's new tractor, she got to back it off the tilt-bed that delivered it. She's got a bunch of projects in mind as we landscape our property over the next few years, so she wanted a bucket grapple and the backhoe. We have an American...

We're getting a new BX24 in the next week or so and have been looking at chippers for it. The dealer where we're getting the tractor has Woods 5000 chippers in stock at a pretty decent price of $3280, or I can get the Bearcat 70554 for about $200 less. I've been told these are basicly the same...

There is a used BX24 for sale out here in N. Ca with 147 hours on it for an asking price of $17,500. Seller says it's still under warranty, bought new december 2006, and includes trailer and spare, chains and binders, 2 buckets 10 inch and 12 inch, and a box scraper. The trailer is a Carson...