Re: Hydraulic Tip \'N Tilt
Larry -
Thanks for the terrific pictures. Each one is worth a thousand words, so that should just about make you a Platinum Member, eh? /w3tcompact/icons/laugh.gif
I've added your pictures and descriptions to my data file on tip 'n' tilt. I'm very anxious to start this project, and you've been a big help.
I just happened to be at a local Kubota dealer this morning (more about that in a minute), and among other things they quoted me a
thousand bucks to put a tilt 'n' tip on my L2500DT. /w3tcompact/icons/shocked.gif That was about $300 for labor and $700 for parts. Definitely time for a do-it-yourself project.
Now let me tell y'all briefly how dumb I am (I could start a whole thread on this topic) -- Ever since I joined this board I've been bitching and moaning about not having a "real" Kubota dealer or parts house here in the San Francisco East Bay. The only place I could find is about a 15-minute drive from my house, but in the 3 or 4 visits I made there, all I ever saw was a room full of office cubicles and a few tractors on a fully-paved lot, too small for any kind of test drive. I was vaguely aware that they assembled tractors somewhere in the back, but I was not aware of any public access to that area, nor did I see any sort of parts store at that site.
So today I happened to stop by on the chance I could find somebody who could answer some questions about getting manuals, and a lady said to go check with the parts department. -- ??? --- At her instructions I went through a gate and down a couple of doors to an adjacent building that was completely invisible from the street. Son-of-a-gun if it wasn't a fully-stocked parts house for Kubota and other equipment!
So I talked to the guy at the counter about a workshop manual and got onto the subject of maintenance. He then directed me to the
service department, even further back from the street and even told me to go pick the brains of a guy back there who knows Kubotas inside and out (literally). I found the guy, who promptly said he would be glad to answer any questions I may have. He spent nearly an
hour with me, and then followed me back to the parts house to hand pick the items I should get.
True to my luck, though, this gold mine of information kinda guy is leaving the company in about a week. /w3tcompact/icons/frown.gif The good news is that he's hanging out his own shingle as a "mobile repair" unit, fixing tractors and related equipment on the customers' site. Pretty cool except my tractor is about 100 miles outside his territory.
Uh, oh -- maybe I should have posted this in my "Boring Threads" section, but the final word is that this guy may need some help tying in a database to his website, so I
might just be able to work out something on that tip 'n' tilt rig yet. /w3tcompact/icons/wink.gif
