90Moneypit
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- Apr 25, 2019
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- Tractor
- Cub Cadet GT2000 53/54 Ford NAA,
Hello,
So, after shipping my cub from Washington state to Texas where it sat in bonded storage while we sold the old house and bought a new one here in Texas (Nov-July), I now have a leak in the transmission! I performed a oil, oil filter, air filter, fuel filter, trans fluid and filter change at 100 hours (now 110 hours, low hours for a 12 year old machine, I know!), and it drove onto the shipping truck but they PUSHED IT OFF into my shop! I thought they must have engaged the bypass since it pushed but that is not the case. The carb was a little gummed up and the battery a little weak but after a little clean and charge it fired right up. I go around to disengage the bypass and see that they did NOT disengage and I now have a puddle of Cub Driveline Plus under the rear end... it's dripping off the drain plug which was just slightly under torque spec but after retightening the drain plug, it's still dripping off overnight. A quick check did show movement fwd and rev but I didnt want to risk damging anything more than it possibly already is. Before I go gorilla with tightening the drain plug or filing a claim with the shipper, is there anything I can check or do aside from loading it up and driving to a service center? It's barely registering on the dipstick so it's more than a temp and altitude change.
So, after shipping my cub from Washington state to Texas where it sat in bonded storage while we sold the old house and bought a new one here in Texas (Nov-July), I now have a leak in the transmission! I performed a oil, oil filter, air filter, fuel filter, trans fluid and filter change at 100 hours (now 110 hours, low hours for a 12 year old machine, I know!), and it drove onto the shipping truck but they PUSHED IT OFF into my shop! I thought they must have engaged the bypass since it pushed but that is not the case. The carb was a little gummed up and the battery a little weak but after a little clean and charge it fired right up. I go around to disengage the bypass and see that they did NOT disengage and I now have a puddle of Cub Driveline Plus under the rear end... it's dripping off the drain plug which was just slightly under torque spec but after retightening the drain plug, it's still dripping off overnight. A quick check did show movement fwd and rev but I didnt want to risk damging anything more than it possibly already is. Before I go gorilla with tightening the drain plug or filing a claim with the shipper, is there anything I can check or do aside from loading it up and driving to a service center? It's barely registering on the dipstick so it's more than a temp and altitude change.