how the ***do I get to this?

[Hamor]

I hear you, proper warm shop, proper light, proper tools, proper diagrams. Not some guy laying out on the ground in the cold/dark freezing his tushie off and with cold hands trying to get stuff apart.. Been there done that, and it is not much fun.

I thought "No Guts No Glory" I went for it .
So what the guy told me to do was not even half of what had to be unbolted! I think that he was full of s..t after taking off air cleaner ,unbolting everything that was on the bracket which is part of the pan I need to get behind and all the bolts he told me (which was 4 of them ) there was still no way of the bracket and bottom pan coming out enough to get behind it.
The only way I see to get the pan pulled away enough is to take the oil cooler off, the hoses are so short that it won't allow the pan to pull out enough. If I took the cooler off it would let the hoses go though the holes in the pan and then it could come off . I just don't now what kinda mess I'll be in if I do that , hyd fluid would be coming out of the cooler and hoses , not what I want to get into .
WOW all this for one hose clamp, who would have thought. There must have been an easy way of doing this, but leave it to me to do it the hard way .
I do have a pole barn, no heat and tarps for walls , with two work lights , and don't laugh a hair dryer going to get the feeling back into my fingers when I couldn't feel them, (it worked until I couldn't feel my toes.) It's snowing hard out and 7 below .
I think as much as I don't want to give up I've got to shut it down for the night , or my wife might find me frozen to the ground . Anyone have any thoughts that might help a gardener ( not a tractor mechanic) Thanks

 

[Hamor]

Sorry ,didn't mean to post twice hands still not working just right .
No room for another clamp , and I can't even get my hands up in there to barely touch it. I don't think I can break the old one off let alone get one back up in there.

 

[kw22614]

Maybe just try slipping a bit larger hose clamp over the leaking one and tighten if you can reach. It may get you through, or at least slow the leak somewhat, till warm enough for proper,permanent repair.

 

[banjodunn]

G'day get yourself some blanking caps in the size of the hose and pull the hoses off the cooler and cap the cooler, might lose a cupfull if you are slow should not get any more than a dribble of oil out the cooler hoses as the engine needs to be running to pump the oil through the cooler best way to blank off hoses is to stick a bolt up them ( the same diameter as the hose).

Good luck with it

Jon

 

[kencunningham]

Hard to tell from the pics how much room you have to work with, but most clamps are made where you can put a socket on it. Can you get a small stubby ratchet up in there?

 

[xtn]

Or figure out where the ends of the hose are, abandon it, and run new hose via a different route.

xtn

 

[Hamor]

Just talked to another kubota dealer tech , and he said that I do have to remove the oil cooler in order to get the room I needed to get to that clamp. I'll cap the hoses like banjodunn said when I take off the cooler , I just didn't want to do it if there was another way .
The guy I talked to said he had done this before and that it's the only way he knew how to tighten it when it's been put on this way . No room for a socket or screwdriver, I can just barely touch it with one finger.

"Why, when I get my hands on that hose clamp"
, don't you think for a minute I won't be turning that up side down so I can get to it from the bottom of the tractor. I just hope I reminder how everything goes back on
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[Cecil Stults]

can you get to it with a 1/4 ratchet and a small socket? maybe with a universal joint and/or a long extension.
or big old pair of dikes and cut it off and replace it with a new one?

 

[Hamor]

can you get to it with a 1/4 ratchet and a small socket? maybe with a universal joint and/or a long extension.
or big old pair of dikes and cut it off and replace it with a new one?

I hope to be able to get to this today, I'will be able to use a wrench on it to get it lose after I remove the cooler and I'll use a screwdriver to tighten it from below after i get it turned or that's at least my plan.
Sun is out and it's warming up ...-1 oh it's going to be a great day if I can get this done (saved up all this snow in my driveway from the last storm)

 

[Hamor]

I got it done , changed the oil /filter ,and been out plowing with no drips !
Thanks for all the help