sandtuck
Member
- Joined
- Oct 10, 2008
- Messages
- 41
- Location
- Mississippi
- Tractor
- Kubota M7040 MFWD, FEL, Hydraulic Shuttle and John Deere x300 mower
OK, I have to vent. I took Friday off to have a long weekend and do lots of stuff around the place.
So after taking nearly all morning to buy car tags, pay bills, etc., I am bush hogging away around the pond on my less than 100 hour
M7040 when I notice that what I thought was a little residual water from the loader bucket on the hood keeps growing and growing when
I realize I have a hydraulic leak on the loader. I fear the worst of a blown seal or hose. After an inspection back at the shop I find that there
is a connector that was barely hand tight, I guess that way since installation right before delivery. It stops leaking but the tractor hood, front axle
And left side of the loader are covered in fluid. Bath time for the tractor. It came clean but you can still see spots on the grill.
Next I check the fluid level and it is touching the stick but out of the safe zone. Off to town to by hydraulic fluid. Back to work for a while thinking my troubles are behind me. Up early this morning to get started on more fun things, but can't find Dottie, my loyal black lab friend for 13 years. Found her by the side of the road, killed by a passing vehicle. I knew it would be a sad day some day when she died after a long and good life, but I didn't expect it this way. I can't tell you how deep the emotions of that ordeal have run. I cried like a baby with no apologies.
Tractor therapy was now in order. Clipped the horse paddocks and was just getting started cutting the rest of the area that was interrupted by the leaking hydraulic line yesterday when I smelled fuel. I look to the right side of the engine and fuel was blowing everywhere. I shut it down and raised the hood to find, in a very hard to reach area several small filters that look like lawn mower fuel filters and a network or little hoses held together by cheap looking clips. A hose had come off one of the little filter looking things. The whole side of the tractor, part of the deck, and me where all covered in fuel. My hands would barely reach it and sure enough I dropped and lost the little clip somewhere on the engine. Off to town I go to find clips at the auto parts store and they had the ones that are best done with pliers. I couldn't get that type on in the cramped space and kept dropping clips on the ground in the weeds where the tractor sat. I finally just put the hose on without a clip and drove it to the shop to work in a better environment. When I went to fix it, the hose was very tight on the filter and it has no room to move so I just got frustrated and left it that way.
That whole network of small, short hoses, with clips that look like paper clips makes me wonder about the assembly of what I have always thought was the best brand of medium sized tractors. Makes me wonder if the green one I also looked at might have been assembled more carefully.
Oh did I mention that on the way back to the shop the cotter pin broke and the wheel fell off of my Rhino bush hog? Needless to say, after these two days of unearned misfortune, the tractor is parked! I give up.
Sorry for the long pitiful post, but I just had to let out a scream with this keyboard!
So after taking nearly all morning to buy car tags, pay bills, etc., I am bush hogging away around the pond on my less than 100 hour
M7040 when I notice that what I thought was a little residual water from the loader bucket on the hood keeps growing and growing when
I realize I have a hydraulic leak on the loader. I fear the worst of a blown seal or hose. After an inspection back at the shop I find that there
is a connector that was barely hand tight, I guess that way since installation right before delivery. It stops leaking but the tractor hood, front axle
And left side of the loader are covered in fluid. Bath time for the tractor. It came clean but you can still see spots on the grill.
Next I check the fluid level and it is touching the stick but out of the safe zone. Off to town to by hydraulic fluid. Back to work for a while thinking my troubles are behind me. Up early this morning to get started on more fun things, but can't find Dottie, my loyal black lab friend for 13 years. Found her by the side of the road, killed by a passing vehicle. I knew it would be a sad day some day when she died after a long and good life, but I didn't expect it this way. I can't tell you how deep the emotions of that ordeal have run. I cried like a baby with no apologies.
Tractor therapy was now in order. Clipped the horse paddocks and was just getting started cutting the rest of the area that was interrupted by the leaking hydraulic line yesterday when I smelled fuel. I look to the right side of the engine and fuel was blowing everywhere. I shut it down and raised the hood to find, in a very hard to reach area several small filters that look like lawn mower fuel filters and a network or little hoses held together by cheap looking clips. A hose had come off one of the little filter looking things. The whole side of the tractor, part of the deck, and me where all covered in fuel. My hands would barely reach it and sure enough I dropped and lost the little clip somewhere on the engine. Off to town I go to find clips at the auto parts store and they had the ones that are best done with pliers. I couldn't get that type on in the cramped space and kept dropping clips on the ground in the weeds where the tractor sat. I finally just put the hose on without a clip and drove it to the shop to work in a better environment. When I went to fix it, the hose was very tight on the filter and it has no room to move so I just got frustrated and left it that way.
That whole network of small, short hoses, with clips that look like paper clips makes me wonder about the assembly of what I have always thought was the best brand of medium sized tractors. Makes me wonder if the green one I also looked at might have been assembled more carefully.
Oh did I mention that on the way back to the shop the cotter pin broke and the wheel fell off of my Rhino bush hog? Needless to say, after these two days of unearned misfortune, the tractor is parked! I give up.
Sorry for the long pitiful post, but I just had to let out a scream with this keyboard!
