L2800 Position Control (Jerky?)

[shvl73]

Well I tried to take your advice and talk to my dealer about getting the 3240. He told me last week that I could trade my tractor and $1815 for his 3240. I used my tractor Monday and go so frustrated that I called my dealer and offered my tractor and $1200. We settled on my tractor and $1300. I was happy for about 3 hours. He called me back and said the tractor will be ready Friday but I had to give him my new bush hog heavy duty box blade too.($650) It would have been cheaper to just give him the $1815 he quoted me last week. He won't budge on it. Didn't seem to care about the deal. Just said to call him if I decide to trade. Well I decided not to. He still won't buy my tractor back either. I guess I'm about to give up and just deal with a tractor I'm not happy with. I tried making a lot of noise but nobody seems to care even as I go up the ladder. That video next to the JD shows exactly what we are dealing with. How can Kubota say that is NORMAL?

I would be angry at both the dealer and Kubota. I most definitely would look to trade or sell outright and I wouldn't buy from that dealer or buy another Kubota.
A deal was struck, terms accepted and then it got renegotiated (one way). I'd be through with him. Hopefully there are other good dealers and brands for you to look at.

 

[Harvest Moon]

I don't have a problem with the valve operating this way - as much as I have a problem with them not advertising to you that this is one of the differences between the standard/economy L and the grand L. All their literature makes it sound like you are losing out on bells and whistles and if you look deeper you know that you are not getting the same hydraulic capacity / lift capacity etc... but no where you look is there any hint that the 3PT operation characteristics are substantially worse / jerky / less smooth than the Grand L.

THIS lack of information is THE problem, followed by the rhetoric when you go back to get it dealt with.

Well said canoetrpr!

 

[Harvest Moon]

I was so disappointed and mad that I was ready to turn it right back in. Kubota steped up and replaced my valve and all was well.

Brian, Does your replacement valve work like Toy Camry's in his video post?

YouTube - Kubota L3400 lifting with the 3 point hitch (3PH)

 

[ccsial]

I just had a thought about the B7800. It has a quarter inching valve. Does not have position control. I guess the L2800/L3400 has a quarter inching valve with position control added.

I am wondering why I don't see a lot of complaints about the B7800 being jerky. I have never run one but I assume it goes up 1/4" at a time based on the name.

 

[Harvest Moon]

Check this out:

YouTube - Kubota B7610 Quarter Inch Valve versus Position Control

Found it on this thread posted by Mike058:

http://www.tractorbynet.com/forums/kubota-owning-operating/123750-b2320-quarter-inching-valve.html

Looks to me like the quarter inching valve is difficult for precision control because it moves in 1/4 increments but it doesn't look spastic jerky like the position control on the L3400/L2800.

 

[canoetrpr]

Would be nice to see one of those with a heavy implement attached to it. Maybe they just gave us a quarter inching valve in the L3400 but didnt' call it that!

Mine does seem to move 1/4 inch at a time like the one in the video and without weight attached seems about as smooth as well.

 

[Goog]

Brian, Does your replacement valve work like Toy Camry's in his video post?

YouTube - Kubota L3400 lifting with the 3 point hitch (3PH)

My original valve was just like the one in this video. If I had a bucket of water on there like that that is how it was.

The new valve is extremely smooth raising up.

Good luck, Brian

 

[ccsial]

The new valve is extremely smooth raising up.

Goog: Is your valve perfectly smooth? can you make it move up, say 1/32 of an inch? My 1910 is perfectly smooth but not my L3400. It moves about 1/4" at a time but it does not jerk badly, just a little. It is pretty much just a fairly smooth 1/4" jump.

 

[canoetrpr]

Yeah mine sounds exactly like yours ccsial. Not as smooth as the JD790 for example but nothing like what it used to be. They could have called it a 1/4 inching valve

Definitely more than workable for my use, but not ideal.

 

[ccsial]

<They could have called it a 1/4 inching valve>

Canoetrpr, That is a good idea. If they had done that people would have less expexctations.

I have a great dealer who wouldn not lie I'm sure. But I looked at the B7800 before I got the L3400. I wanted a machine for mowing and snow blowing. I test drove the B7800 but was concerned about the small front wheels and gopher holes. The dealer showed me the L3400 and I liked its size better. The point of this info is that he never mentioned the B7800 as being a quarter inching valve or that it did not have position control. I'd have been very unhappy to not have position control. That is how I set the mower height when I finish mow some rough acreage. I just move the lever to 4.

The dealers really need to point this stuff out from the get go.

I didn't join this forum until after I purchased my L3400. I knew nothing about Kubota except their reputation for making good tractors. I had no idea some modern tractors didn't have position control.