New Montanna 3040, and I am loving it!

[BRUSHTAMERS]

That's funny about the horses eating the seat cushion, around here the deer lick any exposed grease off of the fittings. One thing I've noticed about my Montana is that it does have a similarity to the older Kubotas. The electric clutch/PTO setup means all or nothing to the PTO shaft just like the single stage manual clutch, I also bought an over running PTO adapter, but haven't installed it yet, need to shave a little off the driveline. Does your Kub look anything like this?, if so I just might be able to take a few parts off your hands before you sell it to West Kentucky tractor parts. They buy used and wrecked tractors and sell them a piece at a time to Gomers like us at a very good markup.

 

[Jae]

That's funny about the horses eating the seat cushion, around here the deer lick any exposed grease off of the fittings. One thing I've noticed about my Montana is that it does have a similarity to the older Kubotas. The electric clutch/PTO setup means all or nothing to the PTO shaft just like the single stage manual clutch, I also bought an over running PTO adapter, but haven't installed it yet, need to shave a little off the driveline. Does your Kub look anything like this?, if so I just might be able to take a few parts off your hands before you sell it to West Kentucky tractor parts. They buy used and wrecked tractors and sell them a piece at a time to Gomers like us at a very good markup.

I have yet to grace my little Montana with any sort of PTO driven attachments as of yet. Just shy of 8 hours on the meter and I've been using the Loader and my trusty BB mostly. The PTO cover is still in place .

I think it is probably a good idea to invest in a PTO overrun coupler for safety sake and I will probably get one installed before I hook up any PTO gear on my Lil M. That little piece of equipment would have save this Kub 175 If it had been used.

My service manual covers L175, L210, L225 and L225DT. These are all similar units and share some parts. But my L175 looks to be a bit smaller than yours overall. I don't happen to have a pic of it yet, but i may snap a few shots when I head over to th ranch today.

But as I said I do have a service manual handy so referencing parts is pretty simple. I may try a crazy repair on the gearbox to get the thing moving again so I can sell it as a working tractor along with the little 4' brush hog I bought to go with it. But as of now all projects are on hold untill I get the new/old farmhouse renovated along with getting the shop built. It seems I don't have a shortage of projects going on round here

 

[BRUSHTAMERS]

Y'know, I never even thought about an overunning clutch on the Montana PTO, but that just might keep the blades on the brush hog from lapping over each other when I shut down, and maybe avoid the hard startup to the PTO. It'll only cost 4" of driveline Sidey