boroxc
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Good day everyone,
About 2 months ago I drained and attempted to replace my hydrostatic fluid and filters on my Kubota B2920. I followed my manuals directions of first opening and draining the main plug on the mid PTO then I went to the other plug on the right side of the rear axle. Well that is where the problems began. When I was removing the plug it seemed like it was just spinning but not backing out.... Hm..... After a while it finally came out and but I noticed a bit of a silvery, shininess to the threads.. I didn't have my reading glasses on and thought nothing of it until I went to reinstall the plug. It won't start in the drain plug? After many failed attempts without my glasses, I went and got them to get a better look.
Well that silvery shininess on the threads were the threads pulled out with the drain plug!!!! OH CHAUTAUQUA!!!! The plug won't start because there were no threads for it to start in on! At this point I realized that the repair was going to require removing my loaded tire (which I've done but its a PITA doing it alone!), and retapping the housing with a new plug (which I've never done). Additionally the tractor was in my driveway at the time and we were forecast for another week of rain again!
Not wanting to screw around with this in the rain I called my local Kubota dealer and asked them if they'd be able to get this fixed for me. The dealer is really a good guy, he's my wife's old neighbor and picked it up the next morning, 2 days later it was back with a new plug and crush washer in it and no leaks. About 2 weeks later it started leaking from the drain plug they "fixed." Thinking it worked it's way loose, I tried tightening it up but it just never felt "snug." If anything it felt like I was about to strip out the repair. The leak was never that much, just a few drops overnight. I put cardboard under it to get a gauge of how much it was leaking and checked the dipstick before using it. But the other day after running it hard dragging logs I found what I consider a significant amount of leakage from the replacement plug (see the picture below).
Any thoughts or suggestions? Thanks in advance for any guidance!
About 2 months ago I drained and attempted to replace my hydrostatic fluid and filters on my Kubota B2920. I followed my manuals directions of first opening and draining the main plug on the mid PTO then I went to the other plug on the right side of the rear axle. Well that is where the problems began. When I was removing the plug it seemed like it was just spinning but not backing out.... Hm..... After a while it finally came out and but I noticed a bit of a silvery, shininess to the threads.. I didn't have my reading glasses on and thought nothing of it until I went to reinstall the plug. It won't start in the drain plug? After many failed attempts without my glasses, I went and got them to get a better look.
Well that silvery shininess on the threads were the threads pulled out with the drain plug!!!! OH CHAUTAUQUA!!!! The plug won't start because there were no threads for it to start in on! At this point I realized that the repair was going to require removing my loaded tire (which I've done but its a PITA doing it alone!), and retapping the housing with a new plug (which I've never done). Additionally the tractor was in my driveway at the time and we were forecast for another week of rain again!
Not wanting to screw around with this in the rain I called my local Kubota dealer and asked them if they'd be able to get this fixed for me. The dealer is really a good guy, he's my wife's old neighbor and picked it up the next morning, 2 days later it was back with a new plug and crush washer in it and no leaks. About 2 weeks later it started leaking from the drain plug they "fixed." Thinking it worked it's way loose, I tried tightening it up but it just never felt "snug." If anything it felt like I was about to strip out the repair. The leak was never that much, just a few drops overnight. I put cardboard under it to get a gauge of how much it was leaking and checked the dipstick before using it. But the other day after running it hard dragging logs I found what I consider a significant amount of leakage from the replacement plug (see the picture below).
Any thoughts or suggestions? Thanks in advance for any guidance!
It was a very interesting experiment.... With one hand acting like the little dutch boy with a finger in the dike, I hand only one hand to get the crush washer off and install the bonded washer. Well that didn't go so well..... I couldn't get the crush washer off using only one hand and my attempt to install the bonded washer under it failed as well. For some reason I'm thinking another hand would have been useful!!!