njpenywort
New member
I have a DK50, with 400hrs or so. It has popped out a bit when I got it at 250 hours, it would pop out driving down the road in 4th gear high. At like 325 it started being impossible to shift from forward to reverse sometimes, like impossible. I changed the hydraulic fluid and found a piece of metal in it. Maybe it was a piece of the fork, or maybe my thrashing on the shuttle shifter to try to get it into either forward or reverse that broke something...
It started getting worse, but a lot of my hours are on the backhoe or just creeping around with pallets and idling around the yard. This past fall I had to hold the lever in forward while bush hogging or it would pop out. I was moving snow with it yesterday, and until it warmed up you couldn't even hardly move without it popping out, and pushing a pile back was impossible without holding it in.
I actually just joined and was going to make a new post asking about the same thing. Figuring there was some large amount of hassle involved. I am thinking maybe I need to take it apart and see what is going on in the transmission. Either way I am pretty unhappy about it, 400hours of relatively light use, the other brand of orange tractor wouldn't have this sort of problem.
My Kioti dealer Bachelder Sales in ME, who is really awesome, mentioned something about the shift fork being the problem, hoping maybe that would fix it.
Also I seem to be having foaming in the hydraulic fluid, any things to look for as the cause of that?
It started getting worse, but a lot of my hours are on the backhoe or just creeping around with pallets and idling around the yard. This past fall I had to hold the lever in forward while bush hogging or it would pop out. I was moving snow with it yesterday, and until it warmed up you couldn't even hardly move without it popping out, and pushing a pile back was impossible without holding it in.
I actually just joined and was going to make a new post asking about the same thing. Figuring there was some large amount of hassle involved. I am thinking maybe I need to take it apart and see what is going on in the transmission. Either way I am pretty unhappy about it, 400hours of relatively light use, the other brand of orange tractor wouldn't have this sort of problem.
My Kioti dealer Bachelder Sales in ME, who is really awesome, mentioned something about the shift fork being the problem, hoping maybe that would fix it.
Also I seem to be having foaming in the hydraulic fluid, any things to look for as the cause of that?