How much should this repair cost me?

   / How much should this repair cost me? #1  

Bowhunter

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Location
southwest Indiana
Tractor
Kubota BX2200
What a sickening feeling. I bushhogged about 5 acres Saturday with my B9200 and a Woods BB48. It did awesome. After I finished I discovered that a lot of fescue had been wrapped around the mid pto. My mid pto doesn't have a cover, so I'm assuming it was lost by the previous owner. I removed all the wrapped up grass/weeds and parked the tractor in the garage. A couple of days later I notice oil leaking from around the mid pto. My guess is that with the mid pto spinning inside all the grass, heat built up and ruined the oil seal.

I think, Ok, this is a problem, but I need to mow. I top off the hydraulic fluid, attach the MMM, and mow for about 45 minutes. I then park it for 30 minutes to finish my weedeating and come back to find the oil "drip" is now an oil "run". It looked like a good 2 quarts were already on the ground. This was the sickening feeling I talked about.

Anyway, I'm taking it to the dealership where I bought it tonight after work. Is there anything I should look for, point out, or ask? Also, any ideas on what it might cost?

Thanks, Indy
 
   / How much should this repair cost me? #2  
Indy: even those of us without mid pto's will await your report, once you get a quote from your dealer, out of simple curiousity. I had looked, at some time in the past, at the service manual for my 8200 to check out the mid pto option, and I seem to remember that the pto was mounted outside of the engine, rather accessible. That means, if yours is similar, that fixing it shouldn't be too bad? Good luck.
 
   / How much should this repair cost me? #3  
Probabl should be relatively inexpensive. I think list price for the entire mid PTO on the L series is about $300.
 
   / How much should this repair cost me? #4  
Sounds like just a seal to me. 10 bucks and 1 hour labor max. Get quote before and make em show you any more damaged parts they have to replace. I seriuosly doubt there will be as you would have started hearing noise from it and you did not report that.
 
   / How much should this repair cost me?
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Just an update....the tractor is back home and probably in better shape than when I bought it. I don't have the bill in front of me but I'll do the best I can. It was the oil seal that was bad, it cost between $10 and $20. I think they charged me 2 hours labor, and they charged me a premium price for the hydro fluid. I also bought the mid-pto cover to avoid this in the future. Overall I still feel good....when I first saw the fluid pouring out of the tractor I thought it was going to cost me a lot more than it did.
 

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