Recent content by CMHigdon

Thanks everyone for all your advice and suggestions. We finally got the water temp sensor, and that fixed the problem. I really appreciate all the help. You saved me from calling the local tractor repair guy, and spending a bunch of money to find out it was a $40 part that we could change out.

And it probably doesn't matter that the Branson is a 2800... I had the Kubota (L)2500 on my mind when I wrote the first post.

It was good, but we went ahead and drained/flushed/replaced it. It looked fine.

Thanks for the replies. We brought it to the house, cleaned the radiator again with air - a little dust blew out. Flushed/changed coolant just to see what it looked like - it was very clean. Started it up, and the gauge rode at cool for a few minutes. Then the needle jumped to hot. It went...

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We have a Branson 2500. I was mowing the pasture, and the temp gauge was running in it's normal position. I glance down periodically while mowing, and I saw that it was pegged out in the red. I immediately shut everything down and moved to the shade. I checked for blockage/dust, and there was...

Hello! We just bought a place with 14 acres, and are looking at tractors. We will mainly need it for brushhogging/mowing. We also have some small projects - extending the water lines, moving some gravel, nothing extensive. We found this tractor, and I was wondering if it would work for us...