Scrounger
Platinum Member
Simply question for the group. WIll your brake hold your BX on a hill? Mine will slow me down, but it wont hold me solid. Not sure if I have any adjustment on the brake or not.
Brake on a BX2230
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HomeBrew2
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Not sure what you mean by "slow me down". The hydro pedal is the "service" brake, the brake pedal is the parking brake. I can get mine to hold on most hills but it takes a lot of leg force and conscious effort to set the lock so the pedal doesn't pop up one tooth. I also find that it holds best with the engine off, ie, no influence from my sticky hydro pedal.
Billy_S
Gold Member
You might try adjusting the brakes. That might help. My brake holds on 20 degree hills, at least.
Volfandt
Veteran Member
I tried to hold mine on a pretty steep hill with the brake so I could get off and take a pic of the incline and it wouldn't hold.
I know it needs alittle adjusting but I doubt it would hold on that incline.
It does hold on level to slight inclines without slipping....
I know it needs alittle adjusting but I doubt it would hold on that incline.
It does hold on level to slight inclines without slipping....
Interesting. I'll have to try this on my 2350. With other tractors I have used, the parking brake has been able to hold the tractor on any incline. If I forget to unlock the parking brake on our 1972 ford 5000 (70 hp) and let off the clutch it doesn't budge.
JWE
Gold Member
I live on a pretty steep hill and the parking brake is next to useless! It's just one of the many design flaws in the BX machines.
proudestmonkey
Platinum Member
Scrounger said:
As someone else said, you can adjust the brake (I think checking brake adjustment is actually a part of the service schedule somewhere down the road).
My 2230 has no problem. I have to get it fairly far down to get it to stay put on one of my steep hills. If I am especially worried, I put put on the brake, put it in 4WD, make sure it is in low gear, turn the engine off. I've parked on some fairly steep hills with these settings and then pushed on the tractor, with no budging.
Of course there are, and should be, limits to this. The tractor is designed to go onto hills of only a certain steepness.
KeithInSpace
Veteran Member
I don't know about "many" design flaws, but the brake itself is pretty useless. I put mine on a nice little incline when I wash it down and have had it roll back on me when I take it out of neutral before. Very disconcerting.
At a fair the other day, I sat on the smallest tractor (tractor, not mower) John Deere makes and the controls were oddly placed, difficult to actuate, and otherwise non-intuitive. Farmer Bob could probably hop on it and be happy as a clam, but for us suburb folk, Kubota makes a very easy to manage machine. Point is, they're pretty far out of the box on some of the things they put on their tractors and they aren't always perfect the first time out. Or the second. Sometimes the third...
But I put the brake in the same category as the droopy door hinge on my old Ford Explorer...after so many years, don't you think they could get this basic thing right?
At a fair the other day, I sat on the smallest tractor (tractor, not mower) John Deere makes and the controls were oddly placed, difficult to actuate, and otherwise non-intuitive. Farmer Bob could probably hop on it and be happy as a clam, but for us suburb folk, Kubota makes a very easy to manage machine. Point is, they're pretty far out of the box on some of the things they put on their tractors and they aren't always perfect the first time out. Or the second. Sometimes the third...
But I put the brake in the same category as the droopy door hinge on my old Ford Explorer...after so many years, don't you think they could get this basic thing right?
