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Well it can't be the cause because being stuck open makes the engine run cooler, NOT overheat. Oh well, no matter as long as you solve your problem.

FMFP... you never did say how the thermostat being stuck open related to the tractor overheating. Did you just mean stuck closed or ??

OK, you stumped me. What is a 1010? Is the go pedal an HST or hydrostatic FWD/Rev pedal ? Now if I figure that out what then is a trunion lever? Maybe some verbs would help us to help you. A picture would be a big help.

Cannot help with the hose numbers but why bother? Seems unnecessary to me. I think by far the greater concern should be "Have I fixed the overheating?" and "Do I know for sure what the problem was?" You said the t-stat was stuck open and that would cause the engine coolant to run cooler than...

Yes and I feel the 60 inch flail is as wide as you ought to go with a 25 horse tractor, esp if you are using it in the widely varying business circumstances.

No, a small air leak on the inlet side of your pump would always be under suction (negative pressure) when running and no pressure when not running so you'd probably not see any fluid leakage. Besides, the air leaks, if they are there, are probably very tiny and not easy to find or see. Could...

That is a great post by FordnMassey. Makes all kinds of sense.

That is VERY strange. I'd be purely guessing at this point. If a hose or rubber part were "ballooning" that might explain it but those things burst instead of balloon. Since it was not happening before the hose incident it just about has to be air pockets somewhere in the circuit. I can think...

It looks to me like (from the video) that you still have air bubbles in the fluid. A signif question is did you have any of these symptoms before the hose incident? If not, it almost has to be an air in the system issue in spite of you having bled it twice.

No, maybe and maybe. I have not seen a whole lot of difference in power required on my 78" flail vs my 7ft hog but it depends on what you are cutting. The hog needs more HP cutting heavy stuff but the flail won't cut the heavy stuff anyway (without knocking loose too many flails.) You can...

Don't forget the jack stands!

Yes, I would think it would work on your LA364 loader on a B2620 tractor. Don't see why not. Key to all this is getting the right kind of Quick Attach onto your loader. The blade above looks like it fits a standard "skid-steer" style SSQA which is what comes on most new Kubotas today. e.g...

Yep; gotta wonder what he eventually did!

Digging out a concrete footing might be a job too big for any farm tractor (?!) Cleaning up an old farm is an endless (and sometimes rewarding) task especially if you have family roots there or "personal skin in the game." Good luck with it. No question that is a nice new tool you have and it...

A beauty. Enjoy it for many years to come. Where are you located? What are your main tasks for this machine?

That Operator Manual page has to be the least informative, most confusing and useless page I have ever seen in a manual... "A suitable position" and "set the implement pull" are about as totally meaningless as one could imagine. Leaves you to guess and experiment for yourself. The whole...

I bought the Kubota bagger for our BX2200 around 15 years ago. Paid $1500 or $1600 for it. PTO driven, very solid and functional. I do around 40 bags of leaves with it every fall and at my age and shape no way I would ever get them done without it. I can't imagine the price leaping to $3K...

Read your operators manual and see what lever placement takes Draft Control out of the picture.

With only 168 hours on your B2320 of course you need to find a way to keep it ! I'd never let that go even if I had to go buy something totally different to mow with. Do you have a loader out of curiosity? To answer your questions: My BX2200 is my "urban area lawn mower" on waterfront...

I cannot say for sure about the -32 and what it is supposed to fit. My BX2200 uses an RCK60B-22BX. I also have 3 B2150's and they use RC-60-21B decks of which I have two. Those two types of decks are drastically different in mounting hardware and it would be foolish to try to adapt one to...

The hard part will probably be finding the attachment rails and hardware, the PTO shaft and u-joints, etc. Like everything else they are prohibitively expensive from the Parts Dept. I do not know about the -32 versus the -29B. If you have access physically to the possible deck take profuse...

Lots of parts like starters, fuel pumps, radiators, bearings, etc. are listed in Kubota's parts books. Why would one care whether Kubota actually manufactured it or not? "OEM" has some inconsistent definitions these days since no manufacturer of any vehicle literally makes every single part...

rm tractors on 45 degree slopes ! One of my pet peeves. NO ONE operates ordinary farm tractors on 45 degree slopes nor could they. A 45 deg slope is a 100% slope. Tractors with best tires and ideal soil will slide to the bottom (if lucky enough not to upset) on 45 deg slopes. You probably...

Kubota dealers in WV offer them for sale and install them. Did so on two tractors used by the renters of my farm. One an M6040 and the other an L3400. Kubota has never offered adequate spacing for the rear wheels on most of their tractors either. If you have steep ground to work on.

If it "clogs on the winter" is it really clogging per se or is it just getting gel for fuel due to low temps? Below 12 deg F ? Where are you located?

Well, you can probably put it anywhere but why bother? I would think the location is not going to change anything for you and might (if you have my kind of luck) just cause trouble.

That is a very interesting idea. Good one. Should be easy to ohm out the glow plugs and see if one is dead.

Well I agree with Dave in general. His description of the startup sequence is exactly what I am used to. But I would comment that there are a lot of variations in symptoms with a blown head gasket. Sometimes they have the radiator bubble a lot or a little, sometimes oil level is affected and...

Well, maybe. It sounds like that guy who was killed was pulling using some attach point above the center of the rear axle. That is just asking for trouble and generally no reason to do it.

Yeah, I tend to the same opinion as sd455dan. Valve clearances. My guess is you can ignore it without any worries. If it is handy or already scheduled maint then the valve clearance adjustment will probably clear the issue. Of course by that time it will be hot outside ....

"All warm starts fire up with the NEW issue" OR "All warm starts fire up with NO issue ?" The radiator coolant level matters (esp if way down) but the overflow tank level does not really tell you much. If you question the head gasket I suggest buying a radiator pressure test kit and see...

As you seem to already know, this is one of those times to make sure what size you are getting and thus avoiding sorrow later. I have used an hydraulic top link for many years now. They are not cheap ($400 ballpark + or -) and several features matter. They get stressed a lot in normal use and...

Is that a turbocharged engine?

Glad you figured out the issue with the Landpride linkage. I use a 7ft Bush Hog on my MF2660 (and previously a 6ft Deere MX6 on a JD 4700 and a couple of smaller ones on older Kubotas) and in all cases I ended up preferring chain instead of the stiff steel straps and folding linkage near the...

That is my first thought too. Pretty well every tractor I've used has at times developed a "flat spot" feel from having sat in one spot for long time. These large lubberly tires tend to do that way more noticeably than say an automotive tire. Since you had the tires swapped when the tractor...

I think you are on a good track with the EA Wicked Root Grapple. They look good on paper and in photos I've seen. I use a Mid-State or Wildkat brand depending on where you look. So many are made around the same town there in the Carolinas and look to be copies of one another. Depends a lot on...

This is better than good Westerns ! A picture by George ! We are pullin for ya man. Did you buy it used? Can we blame that piece of paper towel on a previous owner ?

I am no artist but I feel a cartoon coming on.

One wonders if the nice 30 deg warm spell will last long enough to remove any of the possible left over severe cold issues. I think surely that should remove the possible gel issue once and for all. Your plan sounds solid to me. The only problem I can see with removing and leaving the...

Maybe the PTO is still engaged? Even though you think you shut it off, if it is an electric activated solenoid control of the mechanical PTO shifting, it might still be engaged and thus hard to turn for the battery. Waiting some time or hooking up the jumper battery might either overcome...

Great idea [to pull the solenoid and watch the plunger] and while we are at it -- do fuel shutoff solenoids require voltage (or ground if 2 wires) to shut fuel off ? Would removing the solenoid for a trial, as suggested above, actually OPEN the fuel flow inside the high pressure pump OR stop...

I sure understand what you are saying ! My thoughts in post #46 are that while you were working in the snow that day when it quit on you that the fuel probably gelled at that point. The symptoms match what I have had when fuel gelled on me twice in the past. If you were running winterized...

Great news ! This really was a puzzler.

Yeah, that is what I was getting at by asking him to clarify what he meant by "full pressure to both sides of the cylinders at the same time."

Anything is possible but it seems awfully unlikely that some complicated mechanism or gizmo failed right in the middle of his working and running the tractor. Seems more likely to me that the fuel gelled (and the sputtering partial restarts are typical of that problem.) I'm thinking various...

Over here (USA) many northern states and regions "winterize" diesel fuel that we purchase at the pumps just like you. The problem is that I am never SURE which ones are and are not "winterized," especially in places that are on the edges of very cold zones, source of the fuel is not known, etc...

It sounded like the auxiliary hyd pump would have been the first place to look. Especially before doing all the expensive things you did. Are other things driven by the hyd pump working well ? Real puzzle is having good measured pressure at the loader frame cylinders and yet it won't go up...

Oh, OK, so 911 is an additive. Did you really mean you achieved 50% 911 in the fluid? That is just curiosity but if I heard right, then 50% seems awfully high. Maybe too much ? Being unfamiliar with it is that what the manfr recommends? Great to know such a product exists for that specific...

Great observation. Good to try exactly what you suggest. This begs the question as to how it got that way to begin with -- probably, almost certainly, by the OP changing out filters and disconnecting things which seemed right at the time. Seems likely to me that there was gelled fuel...

This is a tough one ... Like gstrom I think that looks like enough fuel [in your video] being pumped to feed the injection pump and make it run. I assume you have enough electric cord to keep the battery charged through all this. I think refilling the tank with warm fuel is a way too much...

Hershey: without measuring air pressure differential outside to inside with this filter design & comparing that to other designs there is no reason to condemn it. Do you have some problem that could be tracked to restrictive filter flow ? No I don't think so. Your observation is that the...

On an MF 2660 I run my 11.2x24 6-ply front tires at 18 psi. Over the years had chronic very slow leaks in them -- so slow I never really dug into the issues. Because of an accidental bent wheel being replaced last year, it has a tube in it & eventually the other front one will get a tube too...

I never heard after post #14: Does he have a way to heat the location of the tractor or get it into a warm garage or barn? It seems very possible there is gel somewhere in the system and if the tractor ever got TOTALLY warm inside/out there may be nothing wrong. ??

No question you will feel way more comfortable on any slope with the 3" spacers having been added. Whether that's enough for most or all of your activity -- I dunno... one thing is certain it won't hurt anything. The kind of thing where one wishes you had a way to try it without any purchase or...

Having re-read all of these posts seems to me there are 2 solid pieces of evidence. 1) You noticed when cranking it may go 4 seconds with no fuel and then one surge. [I think that is because there is only a tiny flow making it through and if you wait a while it will catch up with just enough...

Any idea why that forklift crane has the curved cutout in the back plate instead of being straight across?

I don't know if it matters but I am 5'8", 215 lbs with size 13 shoes. And 79 years old. Oh well... Ha ! 400 acres of hilly Ozark land is a tough assignment for a L4701 all by itself. I used a JD 4700 very similar in size and HP to that for about 10 years. You will be good to go with a 6ft...

Just for info here is the configuration on my MF 2660 DL250 loader. The cross bar is about 1 1/4" square tubing probably 3/16" steel and bolt into a bracket on each end at an SSQA pad. I bent it badly one time not realizing I had picked up a 1000lb pinch bucket by only one pad. Replaced the...

Yeah, but he bled it at the injectors too ! This is weird. Maybe when he bled it at the injectors it was not enough to get the obstruction to move along to a point of blockage ? Didn't he say "the fuel only ran at a drip into the bowl?" Doesn't that say there is a blockage somewhere prior to...

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That is a great idea. I also agree with those suggesting a reinforcement of some sort which could be welded on to the crossbar right after the alignment you describe. That can be done without going overboard.

You will hear many opinions but I see no reason at all to be changing the hydraulic fluid at 400 hours. Why ? Who says ? Many things suggested in owner's manuals make little sense. Some good, some "maybe" and some silly.

Good sarcasm...

Yes, 22 to 25 degrees is quite comfy for my regular rounds. I am mowing both across and up/down 45% slopes a lot (which is right in the same range as 22 to 25 degrees.) As I mentioned in post #5 my friends use an L3400 a lot on 45% or around that range slopes (using 6" rear wheel spacers)...

A few missing facts: 1) Was it below 10 degrees when all this occurred? 2) Had this stoppage ever happened before?

Surprised that Power Service treatment precludes gel at temps like minus 4. Wonder if your fuel is routinely "winterized" in that area and that makes it easier to depend on Power Service? (e.g. both treatments working together.) I never felt I could be sure whether local fuel suppliers really...

I hesitate to say because I do not know what differences there are between your engine and the one in the BX2200 and the small John Deere. When I had the "insufficient voltage getting to the solenoid" it would click rapidly when you turned the key part way and then when you turned it further...

What do you mean by 30* ? If you mean 30 degrees that is about a 58% slope which is very steep for a tractor. Even with max wide spacers that is too steep for horizontal travel. With good ag tread tires and 4WD you better have prefect soil penetration or you are going to the bottom of that...

Certainly great tractors and much to like about them. Are they early enough to avoid having to use DEF or having to run the exhaust system burnoff procedures? At the minus 4 deg temp what are you doing for anti-gel? Running 50% kerosene I assume.

At least with my BX2200 the insufficient voltage at the solenoid primary was the culprit (and sounds like it was with your starter issues too.) When that is the problem, the starter or solenoid or one of the relays prior to all that will make some clicking noises but the engine will not turn...

Yeah, that is what I was talking about with my smaller BX2200 Kubota. Deere sells a kit for putting an extra relay in that conveys the 12v direct from the battery to the solenoid bypassing all the voltage drops of the various safety interlocks. A Kubota dealer put that same sort of kit on my...

I do not know the whole story as to what is going on with these starters but I have a B2150 4cyl Kubota that sometimes will not start -- just like you say will not turnover. Does not even make any noise. I have found that if I take a fairly heavy metal rod (such as a socket set extension rod)...

I have bought MF steel wheels from Ag Wheel Express in Mason City Iowa. The wheel I got last fall replacing a hopelessly bent/mangled 10x24 waffle wheel was a perfect fit/match and I had zero problems with it. I recommend them. Unverferth seems to be the largest of the 3rd party wheel people...

There's a way better solution: don't change that oil. What makes you think it is desirable much less necessary?

Well, your working circumstances and slopes are what you need to deal with. I bought mine because my B2150 Kubota was not safe going sideways across a 45% slope and I either got the rear wheels out wider or did not use it on those slopes. It is not that I need to run sideways on real steep...

Wheels or tires?

I agree. Bought Bora myself. 100% good. But I got 6" each side spacers and they were a lot more than $195.

Good grief !! Thank you bindian for hitting me up side the head ! I was off/wrong on all my posts in this thread up to now. Embarrassing. ================================ I WAS WRONG !!! SORRY. Apologies to all. Was thinking of the other cross tube instead of the one that matters here. Duh...

Yes, do it. Cannot hurt anything and MIGHT solve the problem. Sounds to me like the oil level was low enough that you got air in the system.

That's OK !! I might speak 3 words in French but not sure which 3.

================================ I WAS WRONG !!! SORRY. Apologies to all. Was thinking of the other cross tube instead of the one that matters here. Duh. My bad. Of course all who said the cross tube (e.g. the one between the two plate brackets) is bent or twisted are obviously correct...

The two cylinders are fed by a common hydraulic line and are thus synchronized -- in that they have the same pressure to each. If one cylinder is bent or restricted or lost a seal or ? hung by whatever means, the other cylinder will go ahead and extend out of sync in the dump mode. No...

How much hyd oil did you have to add? Large amount ? Have you seen any sign of significant leaks ? By "Box blade Hydrolic piston" do you mean you are using an hydraulic top link in your three point hitch? (That would be be good to have using a box blade of course.) My first guess is you...

================================ I WAS WRONG !!! SORRY. Apologies to all. Was thinking of the other cross tube instead of the one that matters here. Duh. My bad. Of course all who said the cross tube (e.g. the one between the two plate brackets) is bent or twisted are obviously correct...

A 16" Cat 2 toplink is currently sold by Tisco for $32.95. I see they have 20" Cat 2 top links for $42.35. I was unaware that Cat 2 links (or any specific Cat link) came in more than one length. Means the user has to pay attention to his hitch and implements before buying. I also see that...

The quick and true answer is NO ! Top Link prices at name brand tractor dealers (or via their parts ordering) are among the most outrageous ripoffs in the entire tractor world. There is NOTHING any better about a Kubota (or Massey or Deere or New Holland or ...) OEM top link than the $58...

Pretty unusual. Most tractors/loaders do not have the strength of hydraulic force to break a loader like that. When they do break the ones I have seen usually break at welds and usually where some unusual leverage or bending was applied. I'm NOT a loader expert by any stretch but I've not seen...

Fairly odd that it starts yet won't keep running. Starting in the first place clears all the safety interlocks of guilt. Hang in there for a while before replacing the ignition switch -- that's costly I expect. Fuses? Did this problem just suddenly happen one day pout of the clear blue with...

Not sure why one wouldn't use a die set. Just renew the threads with the die. That would work in almost all cases unless the stud was VERY badly damaged.

Scotty I agree with your analysis about 70% but the other 30% is that I think the mounting structures for FELs differ among the many brands and 3rd party manufacturers. Many of them have mounting structures/brackets that have pins resting in notches that are NOT a tight fit laterally -- they...

I think I mentioned last year that my DL250 loader on a MF 2660 is "bent" also. With one edge of the bucket lower than the opposite (left or right) edge. You found you can "reverse the torque" and get yours level with a long lever involved. I was able to get under some immovable object (a...

I really doubt it is a pedal adjustment. More likely a mount adjustment of the interlock switch as I mentioned above. If you can't figure out how to adjust it can't you ask a local Kubota dealer ? You've bypassed 90% of the job by finding the culprit switch/interlock. Service manual (not...

Great news -- good for you. I suspect the position of the neutral detection switch is adjustable. May be quite hard to get in to where you see it well or tighten it up. By the way -- you just proved that the neutral sensing switch is the ONLY safety (of several) out of whack -- because it...

Yeah, so one wonders if his is about ready to seize ?

My thought is that a heavily loaded hydraulic pump could very well show high wear at 4000 hours. It seems plausible that the pump internal mechanism friction/drag increases as it wears and eventually that becomes significant drag on the motor driving it. That drag would logically increase as...

I am NOT experienced in this specific machine at all, BUT with 4000 hours on it and much of the overall operation of it using hydraulic pressure, I would have to guess your hydraulic pump is worn out. Not sure how to test it but there must be others out there with high hours on one of these...

How many hours on the machine? I may have missed it if you said. Does the engine slow down or bog down when you move the machine around using the tracks ?

Wiring harness connector pulled loose or partly loose ? That may be a tough one. I'd start at the fuse panel and see if there is anything loose around it. If you have a shop manual you may be able to look through the electrical diagrams and find a common point of failure for all those things...

Let me clarify: These kits do not bypass the safety interlocks in any safety sense -- FOR EXAMPLE if the tractor won't start because your PTO is engaged before the kit, it still will not after the kit is installed. That is because the TRIGGER signal to the factory solenoid is still used to...

The "hard start kit" installed by Kubota dealers is not a temporary bypass of anything. It is permanent. Same function sold by John Deere.

If you can, have a trailer or can borrow or readily have someone do it, take it to a Kubota dealer and ask them to install a "hard start kit." Describe to them your experience. Mine cost $89 at a dealer including installation and Amazon sells the kits for 1/3 of that but it takes some savvy to...

No, of course not. I told you in post #3 what the problem is with near certainty.

Kubota spray paint cans sold by the dealers is a near criminal ripoff. $12 to $20 per can seen. Utterly absurd. Tractor Supply carries well matched paints for various brand tractors at less half the ripoff price. Some TSC stores are not well stocked in tractor spray paints and ordering via...

Additives are fine and some areas have seriously "winterized" fuel that you could depend on (maybe.) I say additives are needless expense and winterization is spotty, uncertain, and unreliable. Just never know. I do know the heavy equipment operators running diesel dozers, etc. in Northern VT...

Time for an update: I was able to get to the tractor New Years Day 1/1/23 for a few hours and found the following: 1) Had purchased a cooling system pressure test kit [$58, Amazon] and one of the supplied caps with pump and meter hose connection fits the MF2660 radiator. Ran 45 minute pressure...

This is $15 worth of fuel going somewhere to create a much worse problem. Nothing wrong with using the mixed fuel to start a burn pile as long as you are careful and not foolish doing it. If we can't just live through the loss of 3 gal of gas and chalk it up to education, then adding it...

Good work. All's well that ends well... like PaPow said we appreciate your letting us know the outcome.

No, I had not noticed the shock absorber/lowering assist rod on the ROPS. Never saw one of those before. Like the liftgate on an SUV.

I have had the same experience with a 79 VW diesel. My wife filled it with gas and got nearly home before it chugged and quit. Luckily it was downhill to the house and I shoved it maybe 1/4 mile to home and coasted in the driveway. The 79 VW originally came with owner's manual instructions to...

Neat. Wonder if the rear RCVs are standard or extra cost? Relatively few of this size Kubota in the USA have remotes. Looks like two remotes. The deck looks to be pretty narrow, maybe a 54" ?

Is your Mother-in-Law living in the upstairs of that barn ? How sure are you the clicking sound is from the hydraulic pump ?

I've not seen that hardware before. Very interesting and involving a Kubota with no FEL. That does not look like what would be called a "quick hitch" in terminology I have seen (??) -- That cylinder looks exactly like an hydraulic top link. Wonder if it can be used for that purpose when...

What is a 'quick hitch lift cylinder?'

Sawtooh -- I do not have the extent of experience of the two previous commentors but I do have many years experience operating small to large tractors with FELs. (Deere, Kubota and MF). My strong preference is to use the clutch pedal to remove forward force while you are curling the bucket...

I'm opinionated on batteries but Dave M is close to my thinking. If it fits the hole, the cables reach and the CCA are adequate everything else is elective & not real important. The 13 years is a good tour of duty for your orig battery. These days with absurd battery prices exceeding $200 I...

Super nice looking set of equipment. 16.5 gpm is a lot of hydraulic flow for that size tractor too. I don't know if you have need to operate it on steep ground or not. The M7040 may have more rear wheel spacing adjustment options than smaller Kubotas (?) Renters on my farm in north...

Exactly. I agree.

OK, hang in there ! No problem. Stop worrying. Most people on TBN are fairly forgiving, in part because most of us have no trouble remembering our own screwups. [By the way few if if any of them care about your electronics but I enjoyed the verbs as I am a EE myself.] I think I said this in...

I do not have a 231 so I cannot say with direct experience on that one. However, for example, one of the most common failures on the small BX series Kubotas is the steering cylinder seals. Every one I have owned or worked on eventually had to have seals in the steering cylinder. In talking with...

True, but it very likely is a hose or coupler...

Dry. I had just cleaned it out via air pressure recently.

...And they lived happily ever after ! Good ending. Glad to hear that.

Beautiful doors... nice all the way around.

One more theory: a local mechanic tells me that some diesels have a small cooler on the EGR gas headed back for the intake of the engine. I have not done the service manual study yet to see if this Perkins has an EGR cooling system or not. Anyone know ? If there is an EGR cooling system...

Closer look at the pictures -- beautiful machine. On the Prefix to the thread I guess "Owning/Operating" is the catch-all for pretty well everything. There is one of those for Kubota and each of the major brands. Doesn't really matter. We'll find ya !

Great commentary. Almost reads like a wish list for those of us looking at tractor features not on the one we have. This grass sure looks greener ! Appreciate the comments.

Odd this thread is under "tires?" Just happenstance I assume from some previous thread/posting.

Sawtooth: Is that 7060 brand new? What is the general type of transmission -- 12 speed shuttle shift with 3 ranges or something more complex? Say Mr. Sawtooth -- I see where you have a MF 2660 HD. So do I (in WVa) . Did you see my thread puzzling over recent smoke issues with my MF 2660...

That IS correct. The "blue Civilian" word is on the left of the post under the very large C with light green background that he uses for his "avatar." Once that blank comes up for composing a Private Message to him, the dialog and discussion back and forth looks just like what you are looking...

Scotty and Gator are both correct --just a big difference in expressing it using the troublesome vehicle of English ! At this point in the thread the big question is not so much getting juice to the solenoid and starter (the OP and his mechanic friend hot wired that and spun the motor) the...

Does that Kubota have a knob you pullout to shut off the engine if need be ? [Some of my Kubotas do and at least one does not.] If so, you may want to cycle that knob in and out and then firmly in (if that is the 'run' position and it probably is.) Too easy... but maybe you bumped or caught...

Thanks redman. I will definitely be checking the coolant level as soon as I can get back to my farm. I have bored everyone by saying over and again it is 330 miles to my farm and I only get there once a month. In the winter I have fewer and fewer excuses to get there but still do anyway. [My...

When did it start doing that for you? Hours wise. What color smoke?

lpakiz, tell your instructor that if engine lube oil gets burned in a diesel it will cause a BLACK FOG having nothing in the world to do with unburned fuel. That is if it gets in via the intake. I suspect he probably qualified his remarks by saying under what conditions and cases those rules...

Yes, they all show just fine now. Certainly the lap of luxury for snow removal.

Holy cow Dave! As I said in post #20 this only happened that one day (so far) and by the end of a 2.5 hr operating period it was gone. I'm not at all sure what to expect when I can get on the tractor again. While it was smoking I could have rather easily done a video of it using my cell phone...

None of your attachments will show.

Yeah, pretty much impossible to capture on video. I may very well be over reacting since this only happened that one day and by the end of a 2.5 hr operating period it was long gone. The intense smoking period only lasted while traveling 300-400ft through a meadow and then the rest of the...

No, I'm sorry, the exhaust is horizontal out the back underneath because this is a low-profile version. Comes out right beside the lower right lift arm sway bar. The air intake is up front, in front of the radiator in a fairly large open area behind the front grille.

I'll check all the possible coolant paths to the intake BUT this incident had the smoke coming out of the exhaust pipe, not from the manifold or anywhere else.

I think being in Texas you have no choice but to pay attention to what they require (and I am just not familiar/can't help there.) I do know I have shopped around for single axle trailers in 2017 in PA, MD, VA and WVa and never saw nor heard of brakes on a single axle trailer. The single axle I...

It matters not what a dealer said 11 years ago. That's when the fuel pickup mod was done on a then-new tractor. It has NEVER had this smoking issue at ay time in the last 11 years and 550 hours of operation. [And that has included far steeper up and downhill utilization than this incident, many...

The OP is looking for a single axle. I have never heard of a single axle trailer with brakes on it.

Can you elaborate a bit? What all do you mean by "sluggish?" Does it miss and sputter or just slower than normal by your feel for it? Any typical load it fails to handle well > etc. Does loosening the fuel filler cap change anything? (built up vacuum in tank after running a while?)

See orig post: I was blaming it on fuel from one or the other of the two dissimilar cans I had added just prior to this incident. The first can full (red dyed off road) being lower in the tank than the second can (plain on-road filling station diesel) added that morning. The T pickup in the...

My Stagecoach 14' single axle 78" wide is very much like what he is showing in post 126. If you are buying new and dealing with a well-connected dealer (to the factory) there are a zillion options and things you can change/have put on. I had brackets put on for adding side posts if/when ever...

No, lube oil in a diesel, if burned, puts out some really black smoke, not blueish. No distinct puffs. It ran the entire time like nothing ever happened. I did throttle down to idle AND up to higher than normal operating rpm during the smoking and could see no change. No missing, no stumble, no...

Would sucking air instead of fuel produce blueish white smoke ? There was no effect on power that I could detect, though going down hill it would not show. A few bursts of smoke did happen just after a downhill but I never felt any interruption of power output. I would have felt it then after...

Do not know what that is. I will need to look into it. Hold that thought...

My MF 2660 has about 550 hrs or slightly less on it. 2010 model bought in April 2011. Never ever a minute's trouble with that Perkins. Probably the most reliable thing about the tractor... Anyway on 11/27/22 at about 38 degrees outside air temp I started it up with no problem and went about...

I agree with Redtop -- but is anything else ruined? Do you have or can you get the bearings and rest of the assembly ? Certainly a good machine shop can rebuild that pictured part but they may also be able to simply make you one. Looks like it was probably made on a metal lathe. Let your...

Dear LJO -- that 431 is not a very old tractor in the overall scheme of things. I have trouble believing that MF does not still stock parts for the MF431 made in the years 2004-2006. There are service help places like Ask AGCO and parts contacts for AGCO that the dealer should pass on to you...

Hey beenthere -- I was being a little sarcastic for which I apologize. Should not have said "stomping." But seriously any amount of braking on the uphill side in that hypothetical "about to tip" circumstance will be counterproductive. Counterproductive whether in 4WD or not. Will make things...

Au contrare. There is no particular need for any change in rotation of the downhill rear tire to get the tractor pointed downhill for several reasons: 1) You were in some degree of forward motion to begin with or you would not be in the middle of a tip-over circumstance. 2) People should not...

Correct. I agree it is bad advice. For sure... turn down hill. And for sure... forget the brakes which you do not have time to screw with anyway! beenthere may have meant to say apply the down hill brake which is potentially helpful but still poor advice -- just don't have time in general to...

Concur with all that. "Terrified" is a bad word and maybe only a poor choice of words (?) but if one is terrified in operating some piece of machinery you have no business on it. You need to be confident in the use AND comfortable, not terrified. At 167 posts this thread is crazy-long... but...

I agree in general. Me too. However Stagecoach does make a 16ft. single axle trailer of a couple of different styles at least shown on their website at Trailer Info As I said in Post # 110 (if you really are in the market for one) you are best off going through a dealer. I got several...

It depends on preferences. I prefer a single axle trailer for misc general moving of small tractors, attachments, etc. The 14' single axle is very maneuverable and handles so well with an F-150. I would not have taken a 16' at the same price. Matters a lot what your load is of course.

You can get pricing info a little easier talking to dealers rather than the factory. Try Topps trailers in Shreveport which is where I bought my Stagecoach trailer with custom (well anyway several specific) features including the heavier capacity axle. Not sure what the weight of my 14'...

Great to hear that it finally came unlocked! At least now you can go ahead and do what you need to do. Comment on the use of PT Blaster -- it is mainly formulated for what the old timer's called "penetrating oil" to loosen stuck metal parts. While great for that, I wouldn't really recommend it...

Very good. The photo looked like that could be a lot of thorn bushes -- glad they are not. Sumac are, as you now know, much easier to cut. Sounds like you have the right plan and on the way there if you just had a tractor you could steer !! This is wild. Surely the refusal to steer normally...

Yeah, you have some serious bush hogging to do. I would guess some of those thorn bushes are going to be tough (maybe even too much) for your bush hog. Assuming those are thorn bushes you are probably going to have air leak issues in those front tires. Many things you can do -- preload with...

Welcome to TBN ! Where are you located ? First, before I forget it, "what that means" (locked differential) is you have a pedal or lever at your right heel near the floor of the tractor. That is the differential lock pedal. On the older Masseys I think it is a short L-shaped lever made out...

Valid opinion of course. But I disagree. The block heater heats the liquid ONLY LOCALLY near the plug (plus whatever luck you get with some convection within the block.) There is nothing 'old fashioned' about an in line coolant heater. Block heaters were probably around long before in-line...

I have no input on the hydraulic fluids in extreme cold. I always recommend in-line coolant heaters for extreme cold operation because they warm the entire powerplant (and most things bolted to it.) Really more effective. The same type I bought from Sears Roebuck in 1979 are still available...

English in forums (to establish what we mean) is so hard to be clear about compared to other forms of communication ! I'm not sure what you are giving a contrary (opposite) view about. Tractors often see less usage then your car. Agree. Longer idle times increase plate sulfation. Hmmm ...

That Farm and Fleet site is a slightly condensed version of the same info seen at the Interstate website I mentioned in post #14 above in this thread. Largely agree. There are a few technicalities that are glossed over in the Farm and Fleet article -- especially they say it can be mounted in...

In your case it is pretty clear you just need to replace your battery. It owes you nothing, you've gotten many good years from it, its' useful life is over. But you also raised some other issues worth comment. First, there is no such thing as a 'deep-cycle farm tractor only battery.' In...

Interstate has a very good and detailed evaluation of the AGM technology and why they are superior to old tech normal batteries. See https://www.interstatebatteries.com/blog/what-is-an-agm-battery-and-whats-the-big-deal Cost is the ONLY downside of an AGM battery I can find and they are becoming...

I disagree about the years. Useful life is useful life, not some arbitrary number of years. I replace a battery only when it needs to be replaced as evidenced by starting sluggishness or failure. Clearly the OP in this thread needs to replace his battery. Simple case. I agree completely with...

I guess you know more about it than I do but I have never seen my PTO persist in turning after I put it out of gear (other than when some flywheel is involved like a bush hog) nor seen it suddenly stop turning when I put it out of gear (which would be evidence of a PTO brake.) So far, I...

I do not understand this conversation -- I use a MF 2660 which is a 2011 model & I would not call it ancient. Seems reasonably "modern" to me. There is no PTO brake to my knowledge and I have no idea why anyone would want one nor consider themselves 'modern' if they have one. So long as the...

Most likely a grey market machine imported under uncontrolled (or illegal?) circumstances. No way to know. I've seen a few over the years . All sort of odd characteristics like the most famous "PTO runs the wrong direction," etc. The ultimate opposite of standard. My thinking is they have to...

Some people just do not have enough to do... out there embarrassing us all. Shame on you. Good for you in other words. Quite windy here in So MD today too and was 78 degrees. Seemed like every boat owner in the area was out on the water, darn near crowded (we are on an inlet from the...

Sounds to me like you had a significant issue before air in the lines. I will mention a few possibilities I know of: 1) Depending on the age of your Massey old deteriorated fuel lines develop air leaks and can get air in them even when there are no obvious leaks. For example the line feeding...

My 2011 MF 2660 was delivered with brakes that would not hold the tractor on a 45% slope and a fuel tank pickup that would cause the engine to starve for fuel trying to go up a 45% slope even with half a tank full. Both problems seemed known to AGCO/Massey and were fixed. The brakes got a...

"The brake pedal lock snaps off by tapping the pedals. " My son in law just bought a B2710 which also has the strap that locks the two brake pedals together pulled loose and missing. That what you meant?

I cannot tell you for sure. I own a 2003 BX2200 but no snowblower on it. I would bet that the front mount blower will fit your BX25D if you have 100% of her mounting hardware, the subframe and all that. I'd be mainly concerned that your BX25D chassis (being set up for a backhoe) could...

Hmmm... that is intriguing. With the two data points of -- GOOD operation on the flat with a full tank and trouble on inclines... I do not know if the L3400 has a lift pump feeding the fuel injection pump or not. Sounds like it COULD be a lift pump issue if there is one. A second thought...

That MAY be the type that MF dealers offer under the AGCO umbrella. I found the ones they offer require welding the female part to the implement (or else making custom pin connections) and seem to be from Europe. Esp these front mount hitches are much more common in Europe where I have seen...

Yabba Dabba Doooo !

What brand/source is that red male triangle ?

Jake brakes makes a very large air compressor out of the engine. Some diesel Jake brake systems are augmented by a butterfly in the exhaust which increases back pressure for greater braking. One thing NOT clear to me is whether fuel is still being injected while Jake braking is used. It would...

Not exactly... agree, the lack of the butterfly valve on the intake side prevents higher vacuum (that would be there in the intake port if the intake path was more closed by the butterfly) but the intake stroke still creates a lot of vacuum and pulls in the air on a diesel.

I do not follow that: Certainly the diesel creates a vacuum, otherwise the air would never be drawn in through the intake valves. The vacuum is produced on the intake stroke as it would be normally and as it is in all internal combustion engines be they diesel or otherwise. Then the Jake brake...

The only time I ever use and overrun clutch/coupler is on a 1954 tractor that lacks one internally. I tore up the PTO on that tractor once for lack of an overrun clutch. But I see no need for an ORC unless your tractor lacks one internally.

With diesel compression ratios being much higher than gas why wouldn't the inherent braking be greater?

The loader they are showing on the GC is the heavier of the two available for that tractor. SO in that sense there is some bias. The DL95 for the GC being lighter and less lift is not tested. The Kubota only shows one loader, the LA344. Entirely possible that the DL 95 would be more...

I went out this evening and fired up a second BX2200 of my own (the one I had been asking about was my daughter's) and it is the same. Surely you guys are correct -- that it just indicates the meter is running. BravoXray - no it does not show 1/100 of an hour. I did time it and the white...

Just to the right of the "1/10" explanatory printed mark beside the hour meter is a tiny window with a small vertical white mark that seems to alternate from white to black (or gone) when the engine is running. It is not fast but kind of blinking on and off and on ... maybe 2 or 3 seconds...

So far as we know this snow blower is a rear 3pt mount , right ? If so, you sure do not want to give up the loader! You want to be able to use the loader going one way and the blower going the other way. Far more productive.

Hydraulics are the first-class route but remotes are somewhat expensive and so are the actuators, valves, etc. I've noticed a lot of people use electric drive instead. Some use "windshield wiper motors" I hear. Already set up for 12v, running wires is cheap and so are switches compared to hyd...

I like that a whole lot better -- AND you will get a front mounted skid-steer compatible SSQA. Another note: Since you already have the triangle style quick hitch, I'd get a "blank" female part that fits and mount that on the blade frame one way or the other. Weld if need be. Choose between...

Don't bother asking -- he is full of it. Total nonsense. Being aluminum (I have zero experience with aluminum) I suppose there is wild and rare possibility that very excessive jumping up and down on rough road could damage the connection between the springs and the aluminum frame. Well... if...

Overheating seems to be a frequent complaint with Kubotas. My experience is all with the smaller ones however. These principles apply regardless of size: 1) Unlikely to have anything to do with rpm 2) Both posts 2 and 3 offer good comments on it ...first make sure the radiator screen and fins...

You said the magic words... (it is also the star of my avatar...)

I have no pictures unfortunately but back in the 1950s my family had a 1954 Massey Harris Pacer (which I still have) and had what was called a "buck rake" for it which was a misnomer because it was not a rake but rather what looked like a "steel bed headboard" with a frame at the bottom that had...

That video is of the old standard horse drawn rake. The user seated on the rake kicked the pedal you see and it updumps however much hay you have collected in it by then and it starts over. Typical use was to unload the rake at the right moment in each round of the field so that you made...

As others have said, you need to give us more info on your overall picture and intent -- Do you have use for the hay yourself? Are you going to raise farm animals? What all else are you going to be doing that you plan or know about? Several comments (pending better info from you): 1) Doing...

True but those self-powered old square hay balers are too heavy to be handled/pulled by a GC1725.