Found loose bolts and fittings

[hench861]

after 20 hours of mowing with my new ct122 the power steering hose sprung a leak it was not tyed up after the dealer installed the MMM and pto shaft wore trough,dealer did not like it but he finally gave me new hose and some fluid to replace

 

[SPYDERLK]

Bolts on accessory items seem to be supplied insufficiently tight or downright loose as a general rule. I had to tighten every single fastener on the loader and backhoe of my 7520 after it was delivered. None of them have loosened in the least since. The tractor is closing on 1000hrs and my loader use is heavy. If you are having trouble with properly tightened bolts coming loose it is a design issue. If you can, go to a stronger bolt and tighten it more.
larry

 

[Canada_CT230]

I have a sneaking suspicion that the dealers have a great big list of things to do on the PDI and torquing bolts is one of them. I think that ***some*** dealers cut corners on things that the customers won't pick up on. I have 257 hrs on my CT230 and never had anything loose. A large quantity of bolts had marking paint on them. I suppose to mark what was torqued.

 

[wallace]

Bolts on accessory items seem to be supplied insufficiently tight or downright loose as a general rule. I had to tighten every single fastener on the loader and backhoe of my 7520 after it was delivered. None of them have loosened in the least since. The tractor is closing on 1000hrs and my loader use is heavy. If you are having trouble with properly tightened bolts coming loose it is a design issue. If you can, go to a stronger bolt and tighten it more.
larry

DO NOT DO THIS!
Bolts that are used to mount attachments usually thread into a trans, engine block or some other part of a casting!
What do you think will give first, a bolt or a taped out hole in your engine block?
This is not a design flaw!
I have touched just about every brand of compact tractors and whether it had 50 or 500 hours I can assure you there has been a loose bolt somewhere.

 

[the6shooter]

:2cents:I don't know about how any of you do your maintanace, but when I do my P.M. I am on a flat floor and a creeper I roll under my tractor once a month more when running it hard, along with the grease gun and check all the bolts and check for leaks of any kind. when you run em' hard something always shows up loose.
old or new, it's just a fact of life I suppose.
david

 

[SPYDERLK]

DO NOT DO THIS!
Bolts that are used to mount attachments usually thread into a trans, engine block or some other part of a casting!
What do you think will give first, a bolt or a taped out hole in your engine block?
This is not a design flaw!
I have touched just about every brand of compact tractors and whether it had 50 or 500 hours I can assure you there has been a loose bolt somewhere.

Well, the hole thread depth in my castings are more than double the bolt diameter. They wouldnt strip if you tightened a Gr8 til it snapped. I would start to worry around 1.3 times the bolt diameter in a casting using gr8 strength bolts to their max. It is a design flaw if bolts loosen. Its possible on some tractors you may have to live with it. Too bad.:confused3:
larry

 

[horticattleman]

I have a 440 with cab now but I had a 335 before this one and when they delivered it on the job, as I was working I noticed some shiny things on the ground. I got off the tractor and noticed the Rear wheels were COMING OFF. Almost all of the lug nuts/bolts had come off as they were not tightened.

 

[catdozer]

My dad has a few cat backhoes 416c x2, and a 416d. When they delivered the 416d they had only put 5 out of 8 lug nuts on the front tires, the other 3 were broke off. This happened in 2004 when it was brand new, my dad started taking a look at other broken bolts around the bucket and boom and it was the most crappy assembly ever!! Called the dealer and the semi had to turn around and come back and get it. 2 days later dealer got a completely different machine to us and never had any problems to this day with it. But why would they torq em that tight, break off and not fix it

 

[catdozer]

Yesterday morning when doing some disking for food plots I noticed the foot control pedal loose! The two bolts holding the pedal on were loose. So tightened back up called bobcat and their gonna do a complete service and inspection for free, also he said while they have it he'll bring out a CT335 for me to use! But I'm going away for a few days and a buddy wants to buy a bobcat so he's gonna use it and possibly buy it! So Monday their picking up the tractor and dropping off the 335