Scott65
Silver Member
I'm not usually the type of person to have work done, then after the fact start nit picking every little thing and claim "it wasn't doing that before, it's something you did". I'm a mechanic, I have customers like that so I know what it feels like. Having said that, I have a 2013 Kubota L3301 HST that was leaking from the seam between the trans (or what would otherwise be?) and the rear diff housing. I had it done at the local dealer. When they split it, something occurred internally: The day I went to pick it up, the tractor backed out of the work stall about 15 feet and went forward about 20 and then stopped moving. Several working days later I got it back, story was that a snap ring must have gotten stressed when the case was split, then let go and the shaft unsplined. I'm ok with that... I wasn't too happy the day it happened that the mechanic told me he was going to collect and reuse all the new fluid he had poured in it, after I had just paid $100 for the 2 hydraulic filters that the warranty wasn't covering.
So here's my issue. The tractor has 280ish hours on it, meticulously maintained mechanically (sure, she has some bruises). I've added a grapple of my own making to the front loader, at probably 50-100 hours. The hydraulics would hold the tractor off the ground overnight. Maybe for weeks, I don't really know. In other words, they held really well. This includes the loader, grapple, and 3 point. The day after getting it back from this dealership incident, I notice an incessant popping sound that is oh so familiar. Sounds just like one of my automotive lifts that creeps. Sure enough, it won't hold the bucket off the ground, or even the grapple open over night. If any load at all in the bucket, it will creep down even as I'm working. The 3 point seems ok but I've not had a big load on it yet. So, is this something in the back, like the power beyond circuit that they pulled loose? Some junk stuck somewhere from recycling the fluid that I've always paid so dearly to keep replaced with brand name clean stuff? Or is there even any way it's related at all, just coincidence? I'm not too high and mighty. I'll admit, I made a scene about the transmission breakage (for other reasons). But if it's unrelated, I'll swallow the cost and fix it on my own. I just don't know all the possibilities to cause this sort of leak.
Thanks in advance
So here's my issue. The tractor has 280ish hours on it, meticulously maintained mechanically (sure, she has some bruises). I've added a grapple of my own making to the front loader, at probably 50-100 hours. The hydraulics would hold the tractor off the ground overnight. Maybe for weeks, I don't really know. In other words, they held really well. This includes the loader, grapple, and 3 point. The day after getting it back from this dealership incident, I notice an incessant popping sound that is oh so familiar. Sounds just like one of my automotive lifts that creeps. Sure enough, it won't hold the bucket off the ground, or even the grapple open over night. If any load at all in the bucket, it will creep down even as I'm working. The 3 point seems ok but I've not had a big load on it yet. So, is this something in the back, like the power beyond circuit that they pulled loose? Some junk stuck somewhere from recycling the fluid that I've always paid so dearly to keep replaced with brand name clean stuff? Or is there even any way it's related at all, just coincidence? I'm not too high and mighty. I'll admit, I made a scene about the transmission breakage (for other reasons). But if it's unrelated, I'll swallow the cost and fix it on my own. I just don't know all the possibilities to cause this sort of leak.
Thanks in advance