Kioti DK6010 clunking

[future_vision]

I was recently driving around in my DK6010. All of a sudden I started hearing and feeling a clunk. I got up under the tractor and found a stick lodged in there and I thought that might have been it. No luck. I drove it around some more and noticed that the clunking would happen as I hit bumps. In addition, if I move the loaded up and down fast I can get the same effect. I checked underneath again and everything looks fine. The rubber bushings where the cab is attached seem intact. Any ideas what might be causing the clunking?

 

[34Willys]

I would check front axle pivot, steering rack, axle/hub joints, steering links, wheel lugs, and loader arm pins. Might just need grease, you hope anyhow.
Patrick

 

[MinnesotaEric]

Like 34Willys, the only thing not moving as a "unit" with the machine is the front axle center pivot and steering. You're greasing both sides of the axle pivot every 50 or so hours, right?

 

[future_vision]

Like 34Willys, the only thing not moving as a "unit" with the machine is the front axle center pivot and steering. You're greasing both sides of the axle pivot every 50 or so hours, right?

Hmmm. I don't recall when I last greased but I'll do that. Would that cause the clunking that can be heard and felt in the cab? It's only heard when I go over bumps or move the loader up and down quickly enough that it jerks.bounces the tractor.

 

[MinnesotaEric]

Hmmm. I don't recall when I last greased but I'll do that. Would that cause the clunking that can be heard and felt in the cab? It's only heard when I go over bumps or move the loader up and down quickly enough that it jerks.bounces the tractor.

Grease everything. Grease is what prevents metal from banging on metal and peening out pins and joints. The axle pivot center support should have two zerks: one in front of the axle and one behind the front axle.

 

[future_vision]

Grease everything. Grease is what prevents metal from banging on metal and peening out pins and joints. The axle pivot center support should have two zerks: one in front of the axle and one behind the front axle.

Will do and will report back

 

[Billrog]

I was recently driving around in my DK6010. All of a sudden I started hearing and feeling a clunk. I got up under the tractor and found a stick lodged in there and I thought that might have been it. No luck. I drove it around some more and noticed that the clunking would happen as I hit bumps. In addition, if I move the loaded up and down fast I can get the same effect. I checked underneath again and everything looks fine. The rubber bushings where the cab is attached seem intact. Any ideas what might be causing the clunking?

Check loader mounts as well .

 

[Coyote_CS2220]

I would check front axle pivot

The only thing I would add is to put your FEL bucket down and lift the front axle off the ground a bit to take the pressure off the pivot.

I have noticed the grease will go in much easier and likely get better distributed within the pivot.

Same goes for the other zerks, but I have notice a more pronounced difference with the front axle pivot joint.

 

[future_vision]

The only thing I would add is to put your FEL bucket down and lift the front axle off the ground a bit to take the pressure off the pivot.

I have noticed the grease will go in much easier and likely get better distributed within the pivot.

Same goes for the other zerks, but I have notice a more pronounced difference with the front axle pivot joint.

I haven't been back to the property to grease yet. Probably today or this weekend. Question about the amount of grease fro the front axel. How do you know you have enough put in? With the FEL it is obvious because it oozes out around the joints.

 

[Midniteoyl]

Hmmm. I don't recall when I last greased but I'll do that. Would that cause the clunking that can be heard and felt in the cab? It's only heard when I go over bumps or move the loader up and down quickly enough that it jerks.bounces the tractor.

Check the Loader Bracket mounting bolts and tighten to what ever your manual says (my little one is something like 110 ft/lbs). They tend to come loose, especially on a newer tractor.

 

[future_vision]

Check the Loader Bracket mounting bolts and tighten to what ever your manual says (my little one is something like 110 ft/lbs). They tend to come loose, especially on a newer tractor.

That is on the list along with the greasing for sure. Thanks

 

[Billrog]

I haven't been back to the property to grease yet. Probably today or this weekend. Question about the amount of grease fro the front axel. How do you know you have enough put in? With the FEL it is obvious because it oozes out around the joints.

Very little couple pumps each nipple every 20 hrs or so.

 

[5030]

Not sure about Kioti but my Kubota's both have adjustable for free play, fron't pivots. On mine there is a hex bolt facing forward with a hex nut to secure it and you rmove the free play in the front axle by loosening the nut aned tightening the bolt and then backing it off 1/8 turn. Something I do every year after greasing the axle pivot and I grease the axle pivot every time I grease eveything else which is every 10 hours.

Don't know about yours, just my Kubota's.

 

[murphy1244]

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"Don't know about yours, just my Kubota's."
Not sure why you are even on this page?
To brag about your Kubota's ?

 

[5030]

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"Don't know about yours, just my Kubota's."
Not sure why you are even on this page?
To brag about your Kubota's ?

Because most all front axle pivots are designed and built the same way. Wasn't 'bragging at all, just stating what is.

You need to get a life or take a bottle of happy pills, you need them real bad.

 

[34Willys]

I've had 2 Kiotis, LK3054 and now a CK2610H. Both appear to have been mostly reversed engineered from a Kubota tractor of similar size.
I even repaired my LK3054 steering shaft leak using entirely Kubota parts.
So, 5030 has a valid point and in this case is offering good info.
Patrick

 

[Billrog]

My CK27 when I bought it was sitting beside a Kubota similar size on the lot both had identical identification marks on the front dif housing. I think that was in 2015. Dealer told me they used the same one at that time.

 

[IndyIan]

Not sure about Kioti but my Kubota's both have adjustable for free play, fron't pivots. On mine there is a hex bolt facing forward with a hex nut to secure it and you rmove the free play in the front axle by loosening the nut aned tightening the bolt and then backing it off 1/8 turn. Something I do every year after greasing the axle pivot and I grease the axle pivot every time I grease eveything else which is every 10 hours.

Don't know about yours, just my Kubota's.

Do you find that you get any freeplay in the front axle after a year? I grease the pivots with the wheels off the ground and give everything a hard shake and it seems tight as new with the same amount of slight friction when pivoting the axle by hand that its always had?
The manual says check it every 800hrs so I'm due.

 

[5030]

It depends on how much I'm using the machines, how much roading I do and how many round bales I'm moving and loading on customer's trailers. Last year it required no adjustment.

I still, however, loosen the jam nut and tighten the through bolt and then back it off 1/4 turn. My shop manual calls out a specific starting effort (torque) for the front axle assembly that I've never ckecked, I just use the 1/4 turn method. I suspect if it was too tight, the brease could not escape and nine does, All the fixing bolt does is bear on the inner pivot assembly, I've removed it before to see what it does and that is what it does.

I have no idea if other units use the same 'slop removal' method, but mine do. LIke I said, that may be unique to Kubota, have no clue about it actually.

 

[future_vision]

Finally got over to the land and greased up the tractor. Still got clunking. I am almost certain it has to do with with cab and the tractor. Can those rubber bushings go bad or fail?