L2900 Leaking pretty much everywhere

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Feydakin

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Location
Tennessee
Tractor
Kubota L2900
My wife pulled her L2900 into my clean woodshop that doubles as a repair bay and told me it had a leak. The front seal on the steering box leaks, the rear PTO leaks, but worst of all there is hydraulic fluid coming out of the clutch housing drain blot/pin. Like, a lot. A drip every few minutes. (which by the way made a mess in my shop).

My assumption that this is what we call a 'bad thing' and I'm now looking at splitting the tractor to replace/rebuild whatever is allowing the clutch house to fill with fluid. This is where my wife also mentioned that pushing in the clutch pedal didn't actually stop the tractor and you had to stand on the brakes and clutch at the same time to make it stop.

I'm comfortable rebuilding a car or truck, but have never thought about splitting the tractor before. I'm assuming I'll need some stands to support everything, and then start pulling things apart until I can get at the issue. Then along with replacing the clutch I'll need to rebuild/replace any seals etc. My real question after all this is, just how much work am I looking at? I'm going to be mostly working alone and thinking I may be getting into deep end here.
 
   / L2900 Leaking pretty much everywhere #3  
Divorce. She can keep the tractor. "Runs fine, a few drips here and there, but what machine doesn't ?"
 
   / L2900 Leaking pretty much everywhere #4  
I don't envy you. You will need to support the front half and the back half and have the ability to move one piece away when you do the actual split. The tractor's only about 25 years old so you might want to investigate other potential repairs.
 
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Divorce. She can keep the tractor. "Runs fine, a few drips here and there, but what machine doesn't ?"
Been married nearly 40 years and she excels at breaking things and not telling me. So far my best story is her coming in the house to ask how to work a fire extinguisher. If it helps explains things, she is both an engineer and a former USAF officer.
 
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Find a replacement and sell this one for parts. No, I mean the tractor, not the wife.
 

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