BX2200 Turn Cylinder

[Charliebrn]

The steering cylinder is in front of the front axle on my new BX. On either end of this cylinder are rubber boots that attach to the cylinder and the steering shaft slides through. They seem to be pretty exposed to weeds, etc and I'm concerned as to how bad it would be if they were to get torn. I've looked over other, larger framed Kubota's with this setup and I see that they have a shield that covers the boots and the shaft that attach to the front axle. I see no easy way of doing this on my tractor. I have a rather large meadow i want to clear and there are lots of wild raspberry growing that i'm pretty sure will make short work of those boots. Should I be worried about this???? And if so, does anyone have any idea what i can do to protect them? Thanks!

 

[Anonymous Poster]

In my mind, this is a serious drawback to really using the BX as a TRACTOR, in the dirt, rocks and rough, even occasionally. If you didn't couple that with the low clearance, it wouldn't be a problem, but combining the two seems a prescription for disaster. I've thought about trying to shield the whole area but haven't had time to mess with it.

I think the loader is really designed (or intentioned) for the "gentleman" farmer who needs to clean the barn, move beauty bark, gravel and sawdust piles etc. Don't they know how nuts we all are? If it's got a loader it's for LAND CLEARING /w3tcompact/icons/wink.gif and driving down into the ravine to get firewood!

 

[Thomas]

I've seen where others have sliced a inner tube down the middle than wrap it around the cylinder plus just be on the rubber boot,than clamp one end on cylinder and on the other end just duck tape the inner tube...I guess that gave them more added protection,also hydraulic hoses.

Thomas..NH /w3tcompact/icons/wink.gif