RobertN
Super Member
Re: Kubota Won\'t Start?
As someone else mentioned, you can pull the starter and go have it checked. If you are lucky, you may find a place that will rebuild yours instead of buying a new one.
Before you pull it though, take those battery cables of the battery, and off the starter and the chassis ground. Make sure they are spotless and clean clean clean. Make sure the spot where the chassis ground attaches is really really clean. As long as you have them disconnected, check where the wire goes under the insulation. Ohm them out. You can have corrosion under the insulation where you can not see it.
The starter grounds to the engine. Pull the starter and check the mating surfaces. I seem to remember you have had this tractor in mud? You may have bad grounds here and there.
Checking all those conections and making sure they are clean is free. I would try that before servicing the starter. If it does not work, then have that starter rebuilt.
Also, have the battery load tested. It's free at most shops. You never know, the battery and the starter may be weak...
Yours is a manual tranny, right? You could warm the glow plugs and then pull start it with your pickup... At least that would get it into your garage/shop.
As someone else mentioned, you can pull the starter and go have it checked. If you are lucky, you may find a place that will rebuild yours instead of buying a new one.
Before you pull it though, take those battery cables of the battery, and off the starter and the chassis ground. Make sure they are spotless and clean clean clean. Make sure the spot where the chassis ground attaches is really really clean. As long as you have them disconnected, check where the wire goes under the insulation. Ohm them out. You can have corrosion under the insulation where you can not see it.
The starter grounds to the engine. Pull the starter and check the mating surfaces. I seem to remember you have had this tractor in mud? You may have bad grounds here and there.
Checking all those conections and making sure they are clean is free. I would try that before servicing the starter. If it does not work, then have that starter rebuilt.
Also, have the battery load tested. It's free at most shops. You never know, the battery and the starter may be weak...
Yours is a manual tranny, right? You could warm the glow plugs and then pull start it with your pickup... At least that would get it into your garage/shop.