canoetrpr
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- Joined
- Aug 7, 2005
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- Location
- Ontario, Canada
- Tractor
- Kubota M7040 cab/hyd shuttle - current, Kubota L3400 - traded
On my L3400 front axle housing there is a grease nipple and a breather plug. The breather plug is a wierd 4 corner bolt rather than a normal hex one. You are supposed to remove the breather and pump in grease until it flows out of the breather.
Being a newbie, last spring on the 50 hr service I think I over tightened the breather bolt. Today trying to do my 100 hr service I could not loosen it any (using a crescent wrench) and have managed to strip it pretty good. Kind of irritating as it is not made of any real hard metal - stripped pretty easily.
I was able to get 3 or 4 squirts of moly grease in there today without taking the breather out.
I have two questions that I hope someone can answer:
1. How the heck does one go about getting a stripped bolt like this out?
2. How urgent is it that I get this breather out and replaced even though I was still able to get grease into it?
Being a newbie, last spring on the 50 hr service I think I over tightened the breather bolt. Today trying to do my 100 hr service I could not loosen it any (using a crescent wrench) and have managed to strip it pretty good. Kind of irritating as it is not made of any real hard metal - stripped pretty easily.
I was able to get 3 or 4 squirts of moly grease in there today without taking the breather out.
I have two questions that I hope someone can answer:
1. How the heck does one go about getting a stripped bolt like this out?
2. How urgent is it that I get this breather out and replaced even though I was still able to get grease into it?