BX2200 Lubrication

[Anonymous Poster]

I almost forgot something, there really ISN'T a need for zerks!

The county in an effort to use my tax dollars wisely, brought out an almost brand new 28000 lb excavator (CAT 312) on my dead end street with a couple of dump trucks, flagger (for a rural road with no traffic) and assocated truck seat sitters. They proceeded to take all day to clean a ditch I would have been tickled to death to do for $100!

Where is this leading? Well I was commenting to the operator about how much fun it must be to climb up and grease the pivot points, he said it has an PUMP THAT PUMPS THE GREASE EVERYWHERE! I WANT THAT!

Of course, greasing all those weird places on your tractor allows you to check for anything else amiss, have fun dealing with the grease gun cartridges, trying to figure out which way to put the hoe to get grease to go everywhere etc.

If you haven't looked at the grease fittings on a new Kubota loader and hoe compared to an older tractor you've missed a fantastic improvement! Protected fittings, easy to get to, all pointing the same way, I LOVE IT!

My Ford requires me to do some weird contortions!

del

 

[Anonymous Poster]

If your dealer is telling you that you don't need to follow the recommended service, then he isn't the one you want working on your tractor if you ever need warranty work. My dealer being the nice person he is will be performing my 50 hour service at my house free of charge, it will be performed as per the Kubota recomendations. For getting at the grease fittings on the 60" mower on my BX1800 I have a air powered grease gun that has a hose, the metal tube it came with wouldn't let me get at the pto shaft fittings and a couple of the other ones while the mower was installed, once I switched to the hose I had no problems.

 

[PaulB]

OK, now I am mad. How come everything I know about my tractor I learned here at tractorbynet and not from my manual? I thought you guys were wacked in the head with all this tallk about U-joints, figuring that surely if my tractor had one the manual would describe how to maintain it. I crawled under her today, and found a plastic cover where the front drive shaft joins another shaft at about a 30 degree angle, and this second shaft goes directly into the front gearcase. What clued me in was that this plastic cover had a pinhole in it, like the one you guys were describing to allow greasing with a needle adaptor. I loosened up the cover (can not remove it fully because of loader frame), and sure enough there was a dry, slightly rusty U-joint, never having seen grease in 2 years of use. I felt like a jerk, but how was I to know it was there?? As I said I couldn't really get to it, so I emptied half a tube of grease into the space between the U-joint and the plastic cover, figuring that some will work its way into the guts. Any chance this really is a "no maintanance" fitting, and what I did was stupid, or should this be part of my routine maintanance schedule? also,are there any other places I need to look? I don't know what is meant by a "belly" shaft, or a "pto" shaft in the original post on this thread (I only use my rear pto, and I see nowhere to lube it) - what I worked on today was clearly my front driveshaft.

 

[huckflynn]

If your manual looks like my manual looks like Harv's manual looks like Kubota's manual then I know why you find out everything you need to know here -- it's not in the manual.

I found it very odd for a manual that was so lacking in specifics that there was a 4 frame graphic of taking a hacksaw to the PTO drive shaft. Hacking your drive shaft in 4 easy steps.

I also found it odd that when they did give specifics (under a bold heading of IMPORTANT) about setting the throttle to recommended speeds they gave the throttle settings in RPM -- but the BX2200 has no tach.

I figure the guy who wrote this manual has a sense of humor -- a warped sense of humor mind you -- but it is humorous.

Huck

 

[eng50]

I don't know if any of you have considered the shop manuals for your tractors. I had a L3710 with all the toys and bought the shop manual, it covered ALL the little points you are discussing. I was forced to sell the tractor, but still have the manual (if anyone is interested). I just bought a BX2200, and will be purchasing the shop manual for it as well. Expensive but worth it!!! Maybe someday, they can be like Helm Inc and put them on CD so we can all scan the disc while on this board!!

 

[Wingnut]

eng50 ... being the proud owner of an L3710 with almost 40 hours on it ... I'm interested in a shop manual. How much?

too bad that common sense ain't

 

[charliesmythe]

I have also had great difficulty in greasing the U-Joint grease fittings. Finally had to remove the shaft, and even then it was almost impossible to get the grease gun onto the grease fittings. Not enough room in the U-Joints to allow for inserting the grease gun tip onto the grease fittings.
Is this a common problem among Kubota owners, or have I overlooked something very simple? Are there instructions anywhere on how to do this?
Hoping for some more help.
Thanks in advance. /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif

 

[bam]

If you are discussing the mid PTO shaft for the MMM, yes, I do remove it to grease it. My dealer scared me with some stories about PTO shafts on MMM that are stuck together because the owners didn't separate them to grease them. Since then, I separate the shaft grease them and then grease the U-joints while they are off.