Mx4700 broken fan belt

[art]

Belts are belts! They may go 5 minutes or 50 years before they dry rot off! We have had no movemnet on them yet and it baffles me as to the different belts between hydro and gear but they do have different part numbers!

 

[murphy1244]

Is this a belt or a cable?

 

[Herkypilot]

I just bought a new kubota mx4700 and the tachometer flex cable broke with only 5 hrs on the tractor. Has anyone had this problem.

My M5100 hasn't had this problem with 50 hours. Have not broken a belt either. As a matter of fact - no problems.

 

[bhospers]

Haven't had any problems with my tach cable but it sure makes me wonder about kubota quality control inspections on vendor items. Ewald sent the correct size fan belt but I ended up going down to NAPA and getting one of their gold label belts that fit that had the heat dissapation grooves in it. Don't want to chance another Kubota belt breaking. The temp gauge starts moving up real quick. If your on the tractor you will get the alternator light, but if you happen to not be on it, it looks like it would cook the engine in short order. Good luck, its pretty disappointing to have stuff like that break on your new tractor. Make you wonder what else isn't right.

 

[wildcatblue]

welcome: Got 58hrs on mine so far will no issues, must have been a bad belt

 

[bhospers]

"welcome: Got 58hrs on mine so far will no issues, must have been a bad belt"

Thanks on the welcome. From talking with my dealer it sounds like Kubota got a bad lot of belts. He had 3 or 4 come in a weeks time which he said he hadn't seen before especially on new tractors. Don't know what Kubota's policies are. Do they just take vendor items and slap them on during assembly or do they pull a few from each lot and test and inspect the item. Sounds like the former to me
Cheers