B6000 Dynamo question

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mtboyinme

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77 B6000 4wd
any b6000 owners left ? maybe ex-owners......

poor country-boy just used life savings (2100.00) to buy a 77 b6000 4wd/pto reverser to move snow on 500ft driveway in maine. thought it was in great shape, but apparently, guy i bought it from charged the **** out of the battery the two times i test-drove the thing. got it home and wouldn't start the next day; seller long gone to winter home in florida.

it's at the kub dlr and they are telling me the magnets in the dynamo are shot; won't charge the battery. the dynamo is connected to the water pump. new dynamo is 500. clams, and who knows how long back-order would take.

question: anybody done an alternator conversion on this tractor ?

anybody have a lead on replacing/rebuilding the dynamo for less than 500. ?

thanks,

michael
 
   / B6000 Dynamo question #3  
I'm going to be replacing the dynamo on my BX23 this winter. If it will fit your tractor you can have it for the cost of shipping. Send me a PM.

ron
 
   / B6000 Dynamo question #5  
I had a B6000 with a bad dynamo. I just kept the battery well charged. It would last for weeks.


Before I sold it I was going to fit an alternator to fix the problem. Never got around to it, but if I can be of any help, let me know, I would be happy to help. I am in Winterport. PM me if I can be of any assistance.


Gary
 
   / B6000 Dynamo question #6  
Just get a battery saver for now until you get the dynamo replaced. Bit of a pain but will keep the battery healthy when you park it overnight. They are pretty cheap as well. Running the battery down to nothing several times will ruin it. $500.00 for a new dyanamo???? :eek: The alternator kit for my B7800 is only about $200.00. That price is outrageous!!!
 
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wow, thanks gentlemen for such great replys; really appreciate it.

i had spent hours pouring over this board and learned a lot from past posts ( i was hoping gary would see my post - and where's that chap from the uk ? : ))

last winter, my second in maine was pretty challenging; i am from the mountains of wv. (warning - personal rambling to follow - hope you don't get too bored, or get the urge to barf). i met a girl on-line and we dated long-distance for some time and i finally decided to take a chance and move north. as a result i made a chunk of change selling my place down there. i looked for land for two years in maine, and oh boy was i in for a surprise. everything up here is so expensive - i used to pay a hundred for a cord of wood - 250. in maine. land - don't even. i was looking right at the tail-end of the boom, and the real estate agents were convincing everybody their property was worth three times what anybody would pay. i won't go into the part about the relationship not working out and sleeping in my truck in the mahoosuc reserve most of the winter - you'll thank me.

but bottom-line, i was homeless and didn't really know anybody up here. but i kept searching - hard. i was calling real estate agents from properties with questions and they were like - uh, what property are you talking about - really ? i just submitted that listing yesterday - you're at the property ? how did you find it ? and so it went... then i found a listing that seemed too good to be true; twenty-five acres fifteen minutes from auburn for 65,000. i went and saw it and it was love at first sight. the front of the lot was old hay field; seven acres, and the back was mostly swamp, but bordered by cmp easement, and trees. dairy farm on one side, apple orchard on the other. cow poop and bees - perfect combination for reasonably priced land. the back was cut over twenty years ago, but there is plenty of firewood back there - just need a tractor and cart. ended up getting the land for 58,000. last october.

so, the fun begins. mission impossible: build a house with 77,000. before winter sets in hard. i was the gc, and began searching for people to getrdone. to make a long story short, here are the low-lights. rained and rained and rained. contractors took me to the cleaners and then kicked me in the nads just for grins. got a tri-axle stuck up to the hubs, got a concrete truck stuck, i buried a rented 4wd kubota back-hoe in mud so deep, half of the engine was under mud. there i was; temperature dropping, ten o'clock at night, i'm soaked to the bone from wet mud, holding a flashlight with one hand, and trying to shovel mud from under the front end as it was just sucking the tractor in deeper. that went on for a couple of hours until i finally just broke down and went to my knees and began to cry. reason back-hoe got stuck - i was using it to dig the underground utility trench. 500 ft. of trench and rain do not mix; filled up completely with water. there was a low spot in the middle of the lot that was perpendicular to the trench that went sloped away and down from the utility trench. i figured i could dig a trench across the lot in order to drain the water out of the utility trench. that was going just fine until i broke the dam at the intersection to let the water into the drainage trench. the tractor was straddling the drainage trench in order to dig and when i went to drive out/over it.....see above. i worked that poor little kubota harder than is imaginable. i turned that thing completely around twice using the bucket- six inches at a time. but i just kept mixing the excavated dirt with more water and kept going deeper and deeper. the whole job site was one big mud farm.

fast-forward to december and the house is under roof and i am sleeping on an air mattress on the subfloor with no heat or running water. was tough getting a well contractor to show up. he-ll it was tough to get anybody to show up. tougher to get anybody to finish the job. the only time you could count on anybody showing up was when they wanted money. but, the well only went 220 ft - thank god. so, i had water and finally got heat around first week of january. hooked up a rinnai and slept very very close to it on the air mattress. kept working on her through the winter and by the grace of god, got an occupancy certificate in march (poor ceo - i know he just dreaded coming out - he was finally like - it's your house man, do what you want - if you were building it for somebody else, we'd have a whole 'nother ballgame here - money was tight).

but i told you that to tell you this: last winter was tough trying to get back and forth from the road to the house. at first i shoveled it by hand and was actually priding myself on being a tough mountain man. but then the wind started blowing - no howling is more like it - and the path that i has shoveled to my truck at the edge of the street drifted back in so i had to shovel again. and then again, and then it froze solid. so i had frozen boot tracks along this path the whole way. try carrying four bags of groceries in the dark trying to walk in these frozen boot tracks. needless to say, i busted my a-ss several times and learned the hard way that eggs were not going to be had for breakfast. oh, forgot to tell that i didn't have a kitchen all this time. the whole downstairs was just framing. i was living in the upstairs with unfinished drywall and subfloor. so i was using an electric skillet, and one of those small fridges.

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but i told you that to tell you this:

i knew i had to find a tactor in order to get me out to the road this winter and spent most of this summer looking at old 8n, 2n's, farmalls, etc. then i came across this 4wd kubota with ag tires on it and was really excited. i thought the 4wd would be worth its weight in gold. the guy wanted 3800. for it which was way out of my price range. i researched the tractor thoroughly and told him i would give him 2100, which was also way out of my price range - but..... he told me he had all kinds of people interested in it and wouldn't let it go for that low. now it's mine !! i know it's a great little tractor. now i have to figure out how to rob peter in order to pay paul to afford a 46'' meteor snowblower the local kub dlr has for 1065. oh yea, and find a way to deal with this dynamo issue.

but the good news is, that with help of navy federal credit union, i now have a kitchen, two rinnai heaters, a washing machine, twenty-five acres of wonderful land, a twenty-two hundred sq ft home, and a 450./month 30 yr fixed mortgage - which is a lot better than a lot of people have in these difficult times - so i am thankful this thanksgiving. it's been the toughest year of my life - i have never worked so hard, physically, for so many days on end to make this dream a reality. i had to pay a 2800. impact fee to the town of minot in order to get a building permit (don't get me started on this), but my propery tax bill just came the other week and it wasn't too bad. the job market up here is tough, but i've got hope.

so....that's my story of about why i am on here asking questions about my little, bitty kubota. i have a lot riding on this little thing moving snow so that i can actually drive up to the house this winter. and as well, i am looking forward to using it this coming summer. i am hoping to start doing something with the front field - goats, sheep, hay - something.

so i really appreciate you guys taking the time to write and appreciate your help - thank you very much.
 
   / B6000 Dynamo question #8  
Well I guess .. Welcome to Maine!!! It seems that many of the original settlers had a much easier time than you!:eek: None the less, I am sure you will find it really is "THE" place to live....:)


The good news is you can run the B6000 on a good battery for a long time. Once it is started the only thing that will require any current is the fuel pump and that is a minimal draw. That is assuming you do not run the head lights!


The bad news is the B6000 has a PTO that turns in the reverse direction as the "NORM", so you will either need to find a PTO reverser (which are not common) or fabricate one. Possibly tuning the snow blower into a front mount. Neither of which will be cheap. But it is doable.


I wish I had better news, but the B6000 is really a great little tractor.


Let me know if I can be of any help.


Gary
 
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I expect these tractors will be performing reliably long past me.

Never known the magnets in the dynamo to give out though, I would have suspected the AC/DC Rectifier behind the dash - but they're not inexpensive to replace either!

If you take the fan belt off and turn the fan manually - is it jumpy as it ought to be?

I've fitted alternators to a B6100 (as I use it to tow a 12V sprayer and dynamo doesn't have enough output) and a B5100 where it powers a magnetic clutch to drive a compressor (likewise, not enough output).

Did the 5100 first and mounted it outside the LHS panel, the belt goes under the jockey pulley (fitted a flat face over the V belt groove) and then up to the fan pulley. Changed the tightening bolt so it now pushes the jockey in.
Also fitted a couple old TEFC elec. motor fan covers over the alt. to keep most of the rain out.
See the first three photos.

Did the 6100 second, my brother convinced me it could be fitted above the engine on the RHS. Had to cut away the bit of the side panel that gets covered by the hood anyway, to fit it in. Also had to bend the injector pump output lines a little.
Once again changed the jockey to pushing in (a bit lower than it was) to gain proper contact with the fan pulley and tightening.
See the last five photos.

Both are Bosch 85 amp alternators, made in Australia, as fitted to Holden (GM) Commodores which are exported to the US as Pontiac GTO's I think.

Did consider direct coupling to the crankshaft front spline but weren't sure if the alt. would work in reverse and I'm still thinking about fitting a magnetic clutch there to drive an outfront mower.
 
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thanks for the info guys.

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I'm going to be replacing the dynamo on my BX23 this winter. If it will fit your tractor you can have it for the cost of shipping. Send me a PM.

ron

I have one or 2 dynamo's from my B7100 if it will work. I live in Carmel, between Bangor and Newport on Rt 2.

amitysanimal

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from what i understand, the dynamo is unique to this model as it is in phase with the water pump. i called Weitzel's D.C. Electric Norwalk, Ohio 1-866-840-2844 - very helpful, and he told me that kubota never let any aftermarket specs out for this one hence the 500. kubota price.

so......

i don't think i can swap out one from another model, think i either have to add an alternator somewhere while leaving the dyanamo in place, or buy a new dynamo - actually one more option would be to find an original b6000 dynamo in working order.

and gary, the tractor has a hub-city reverser/spline retrofit.

if anybody can verify this, i would appreciate it. the rectifier was the first thing i had the dealer check, according to them it is fine.

thanks again,

michael
 

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