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I've had my chipper for many years and am pretty familiar with all the usual repairs, knife replacement, feed roller problems, etc. Last year I replaced the knives and used factory fasteners, self locking nuts, torque wrench, etc. It ran fine all summer. Last week I was chipping some small 2"...

My Jinma 284 has had starter problems for nearly a year. There are nearly 700 trouble free hours on the machine and the starter was original. Battery is new. Even when hot, the only way I could start it would be to activate the compression release, spin it over, let go of compression release...

My self imported HW04 frame mounted hoe is finally debugged and has given me good service, especially with the BRO-TEK thumb. Last year I used the BH a lot, including building a wall with the thumb. The one complaint I have is the control valve assembly and I don't know if the problem is...

I really need some help with this problem: I've owned this 128 for around 30 years and have done nothing to the charging system. A black VR was on the machine when I bought it. I noticed the two year old battery kept going dead and it found it would not charge. Although I could jump start...

I'm in the process of replacing the front hub seals and researched everywhere to learn how to do it. The first hub came off with no problem and I did my best to clean off all the grit before breaking any seals. It's now on the bench with the shaft sticking out and seals removed. Some grit...

I picked up one of the vacuum oil evacuators to use on my VW Passat TDI, my Jinma 284, Saab, and other machines. There are plenty of videos for the VW diesel so I knew in advance that I could remove all the oil from the dipstick hole. I had trouble with the Jinma and could not insert the...

Last year I had trouble with the male square on the end of the feed roller shaft. It rounded off so, rather then replace the roller, I welded the drive shaft knuckle square socket right to end of the feed roller. So far so good until this year when the same drive knuckle itself rounded inside...

I've not been able to stop the leak at a hose inside the boom. It's the ORF seal where the metal tube connects to the hose leading up to the control valves. I've swapped out the O-ring a few times with no luck. I called Ronald at Ranch hand today to buy two of his adaptors that convert to...

Details on this almost new 8" Jinma Chipper are here http://www.tractorbynet.com/forums/chinese-tractors/227723-8-jinma-chipper-infeed-roller.html

I have another leak as shown in this picture. It's not easy to repair this one without removing a cylinder. When the BH was new last year, it leaked right away so I replaced the O-ring seal. The leak returned right away. Today I removed the O-ring and found it cut and split despite my care...

I'm having a problem with one of the swing cylinders leaking oil. I haven't removed it yet but it squirts momentarily right out the side near the thick midsection where it's mounted. I'm wondering if there's a vent hole there and I seeing oil that made it past the piston seal. I can watch the...

Thought you might like to see what I received today from Jinma.

I shopped everywhere and also searched TBN for thumb information. I wanted a high quality bolt-on thumb and the search led me to Bro-Tek. Working with Bro-Tek is just like the reviews on their website. It's a pleasure to deal with Bro-Tek and the thumb arrived in short order. Unlike another...

My 284 seems to be stuck in 4WD. Periodically I would engage or disengage it but it's been in 4WD for months now while I did a lot of work in the woods, mud, etc. In the past, I knew I had to disengage while moving or maybe turning a bit right and left, etc to free up the drive train. I...

We've come across a situation where the chipper owner first experienced infeed roller failure slipping on a new chipper and later reported the small driveshaft "falling off". Before we had a chance to look at it, the owner had welded each end of the coupling. The feed roller end coupling was...

I have boulders everywhere and am exploring a thumb. Different searches within TBN have information mainly about Kubota, JD, and others. Have any of you Chinese BH owners added a thumb? There as so many sizes and I don't know how to size it. I phoned one supplier today and told them I needed...

I have two other threads on this one but they are related to self import and hose connection problems. These threads are http://www.tractorbynet.com/forums/chinese-tractors/223303-hw04x-bh-hose-connection-problem.html and...

Maybe someone has come across this before. I'm trying to attach my new HW04X supply hose to the pump but the hose has a 90 degree end with a male thread, 18 mm in diameter. None of the two adapters that came with it can accept this male hose. Since the pump face only has four holes and a...

I am placing an order with the Jinma factory for an HW-03 frame mounted backhoe for personal use. If anyone wants to piggyback on this shipment, arriving Boston, send me a private message. We are not a dealer but are fully bonded and insured for our normal business. Please, serious inquiry only.

I'm exploring buying a frame mounted Chinese BH and am confused about all the names such as JW-03, HW-03, LW-6, Guilin, etc. I can't seem to find any kind of explanation or cross reference. Are they all the same under different names? In my consulting and import work I travel to China and...

I have my new plugs ready but cannot remove the old ones. I've unthreaded them until "finger loose" and even a little side play but they won't come out. I even tried vise grips with some upward force but I can't get it out? Any ideas? Tractor is cold and it's around 25 degrees. I plugged in...

Last winter was my first winter with Jinma 284, stored outside, and all went well with cold starts in New England. With careful use of glow plugs and compression release I had no trouble down to, from what I remember, around maybe 10-15F. The radiator hose KATS heater helped me below that. I...

I've noticed my loader is skewed to the left as I'm sitting on the tractor. Near the radiator, the space between the loader frames is around 1-1/2" greater on one side than the other so that makes it off by 3/4". I've put the machine to some hard use with big boulders, the compulsory trophy...

Winter is here and I installed a new KATS 14600 yesterday in the Jinma 284 lower radiator hose. I then ran the tractor until I felt the upper radiator hose warm up - maybe 20 minutes. Then I topped off the coolant. This morning it was around 11 degrees F and breezy and the tractor is stored...

I'm having two erratic problems. Tractor now has 128 hrs since new in May. Glow Plug Fuse - Twice I've had the problem in the morning when the glow plug fuse blows. I put in a new one and all is OK until the next time. Tractor is stored outside but always covered with a tarp. I plan to...

There are some excellent threads on this and they all helped me. I think it might be helpful to others if I post my own situation. The machine now has 100 hrs and the gage always read low on the first mark off the pin. I removed the thermostat and found it to be conventional and unlike others...

I'm approaching 100 hours now on my Jinma 284 and suddenly the TPH has slowed down. For the first 60-70 hrs I was using a Jinma chipper having a posted weight of around 800 lb. I was always raising and lowering the chipper when I moved the tractor around and I could always raise it at idle...

I'm in the process of adapting a Meyer plow to the Koyker loader arms on my Jinma 284. Can anyone help spec out the control valve and circuit to control the two single acting angle cylinders? I plan to leave the loader functions intact and add the system for plow angle control via a separate...

Has anyone had any experience with matching a Koyker 160 loader to a Curtis tractor loader arm blade system?

I'm getting close to buying a Jinma 284 for maintenance of my 4 acres, including a 400' gravel drive. We'll be scrapping an old Nissan Pathfinder that has a Meyer plow I bought new and only used here. It works perfectly. When we scrap the Nissan it makes sense to either sell or use the Meyer...

I've read most of the threads on snow removal and also the general thread for creeper versus shuttle. Since I'm planning to purchase a 254LE soon, I want to make the best decision but I can't seem to find much first hand user experience on which transmission will best suit my needs for the...