New BX25 owner, first weekend adventures.

timswi · Oct 30, 2017

PM me with your txt number..

timswi · Oct 30, 2017

Might be able to come over after dinner..PM me.

dragoneggs · Oct 30, 2017

Rock Crawler said:
I noted that the throttle lever was very stiff and when I wanted to adjust throttle I would pull or push hard, slightly bending the rod, and then the lever would move in a sudden jerk and over-adjust. So 2 days ago while I was finishing up re-assembly from the HST fan replacement I pulled the radiator screen from the area in front of my knees and looked at the linkage motion. The rod goes down through the plastic dash panel and has a nearly horizontal pivot plate that is passing through a bracket, and then it terminates with a nut and a jam nut. My first thought was to mess with the doubled nuts, but them I thought I should give a quick hit with WD-40 and see how it reacts.... Wow! Now it glides under light resistance and can be easily and smoothly adjusted to a desired RPM without the herky-jerky movement from the sticking pivot mechanism. Soooo much better with just a quick soaking with WD-40!

Thanks for the tip... will have to try that!

dragoneggs · Oct 30, 2017

I don't have the pedal force issue in reverse up a hill but I do wish it would go a little faster. I have all hill so I am always in Low and 4WD. I use the differential lock regularly so it has been habit without thinking.

Rock Crawler · Oct 30, 2017

Tim Came over a couple hours ago and I drove him out in the Rhino to my property that I'm working on. He kind of laughed and said that I'm in track machine territory here. He also raised a question that I'll ask in a new thread about steep hills and oil starvation.

timswi · Oct 30, 2017

Rock Crawler said:
Tim Came over a couple hours ago and I drove him out in the Rhino to my property that I'm working on. He kind of laughed and said that I'm in track machine territory here. He also raised a question that I'll ask in a new thread about steep hills and oil starvation.

Yeah, some of those are hill-climbs in the woods, not "hills". It's a miracle a tractor even tries to go up a couple of those regardless of size. Track SS territory in my opinion. The oil starvation thing is something that crosses my mind sometimes but never really heard of that being an issue. Wouldn't hurt to ask since these aren't dry-sump machines.