Recent content by CLeslie

I have about 20 hours on my new tractor. It's low on coolant, and I'm not sure how to add the coolant. Am I supposed to take the cap off of the rectangular, whitish coolant reservoir and add the coolant to the reservoir? There is a sort of handle attached to the cap, so I'm guessing that is what...

I haven't been back here in awhile, and I see some more helpful tips. Thanks to everybody that posted. Last summer I pretty much made friends with the hood and its latch, but a couple days ago I was unable to open the hood. It's winter. I thought something was probably frozen. After thinking...

oosik, what I've been doing is using a bare finger to feel the dipstick. I can feel where there is liquid and where there is not. I also want to mention that the guy in this video suggests using a paint stick to put color on the tractor's dipsticks. He ways that will make it easier to see the...

Thank you, oosik and 5030. As for what 5030 said: Yes, for crying out loud, I have been checking the oil in my vehicles for years, and it's easy. But since I started living off the grid in a rural location five years ago, I've acquired a bunch of machines: ATVs, generators, lawn tractor...

I'm not sure I understand the dipsticks on my Kioti CK3510SE HST tractor. There is a flat part at the tip of the dipstick, and there is a round shaft between the flat part and the dipstick cap. I am assuming the fluid is supposed to cover the flat part but is not supposed to encroach on the...

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Everybody, thank you for all the advice. I did get the tractor started this morning. I messed around with the gearshift (shifting into and out of different gears), and I messed around with the parking brake (engaging it and disengaging it a few times), and I fiddled with the yellow PTO button...

Thank you for the congrats. The PTO was disengaged before I parked the tractor and got up from the seat. At least, I'm 99% certain it was disengaged. I'd been bush hogging, and then I was driving the tractor around for 20 minutes or so after I finished bush hogging. After that, I stopped the...

I bought a Kioti CK3510SE tractor a couple months ago. It has a cab, and it has a bucket on the front and a bush hog on the back. I've only put eight hours on the tractor so far, and prior to buying this tractor I'd never operated a tractor, so obviously I have a lot to learn. After bush...

I just got this tractor. I had no trouble opening the hood, but now I don't see how to make it stay closed. I don't think anything is broken; I think there is probably some little trick I just don't know about.