Newbie Tractor Maintenance

Harv · Dec 31, 2000

Bird -

Well, I'm still watching your progress, but maybe I should sit back and make myself comfortable, huh? /w3tcompact/icons/laugh.gif

redhawk · Dec 31, 2000

Harv,

thanks, i've got 28 hours on my little 7500, and i want to
do the 50 hour maint on it myself. your adventures and the descriptions of them has given me some courage. thanks. now if i could find a manual that actually gave me a step by step go at it maybe i could actually accomplish it.

kevin

Bird · Dec 31, 2000

Harv, that's quite a web page you have. What I wonder is how do you find time to use a tractor, maintain a tractor, and still make all those pictures and get them on the web site?/w3tcompact/icons/wink.gif And I wonder what the picture of the strainer in the manual looks like, since you say it's different. Your strainer is definitely much different than mine. Don't you have two strainers; one on each side like I do?

Bird

LarryT · Dec 31, 2000

Harv, I couldn't agree with your sentiments on the box blade more. I have a Gearmore box but it has the same ripper setup. I have the T&T hydraulics which helps a lot but just today, I was getting so aggrivated getting on and off the tractor to adjust the rippers when I could do the rest of my adjustments from the seat. I also agree that the box blade is indispensible but I long for the day that I can get one with hydraulic ripper (scarficer?) adjustment. My how we get spoiled!

Larry...

LarryT · Dec 31, 2000

I just did the 50 hr on my B2910 and it was a snap. All you need for instructions are in the operators manual and mine was quite clear. The only tricky part was that the instructions were under the 300 hour maintenance instructions. The whole job cost a little less than $100 for parts/fluid and took less than an hour (not counting the laundry time for the fluid soaked clothing). The pictures in the operators manual are very clear for locating the drain plugs, fill holes, and the hydraulic screen. Not much more complicated than changing oil in your car.

Larry...

Harv · Jan 1, 2001

Bird -

Just the one strainer -- about 8 inches long.

Ya know, when I said it didn't resemble the drawing in the manual, I was referring to the cover plate, not the strainer itself. But now that I've seen the real thing, I realize that my eyeballs were just interpreting the line drawing incorrectly. It's drawn in kind of a 3-D perspective and it's sort of like that classic line drawing of a staircase that seems to flip one way and then the other as your brain tries to convert 2-D to 3-D.

I'm just trying to make excuses here. See the attachment and see what you think. /w3tcompact/icons/crazy.gif

Thomas · Jan 1, 2001

Larry,
Thats another good thing about Kubota..they try and keep it basic for the owner. Now if the can come up w/ a manual in which one can clean the greasy finger prints off. /w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif

Thomas..NH /w3tcompact/icons/wink.gif

TomG · Jan 1, 2001

Keeping a maintenance log and the receipts for materials purchased was good enough for the warranty on the rebuilt engine in my 1/2 ton.

Bird · Jan 1, 2001

Yep, Harv, I can see why that drawing would throw you off. And I don't know whether it's because it's an "L" model or because it's a geared transmission, but your strainer is entirely different from the B2710, and my manual mentioning the "strainer" (singular) can throw you off, too, although the picture shows both of them.

Bird

Anonymous Poster · Jan 1, 2001

Oh Harv,

How could you have missed such an obvious thing?....NOT!
It's perfectly clear to ME. But then, I already knew the answer, thanks to you.

This reminds me of the "Colombus" story. He's back from his trip-of-discovery, seated at a table with a bunch of wanna-be admirals and other bigwigs, and the queen.

The wanna-bes are saying "No big deal...anybody could have done it!"

Columbus passes around an egg, challenging anyone to stand it on end. When all fail, Columbus smacks the egg on one end, crushing the shell enough to make a stable base and there it "stands".

"Anything is "easy", if someone else shows you how!" says he.

(I don't think I would have put those pieces together in-my-mind and got the finished product to look like the real thing either

Happy New Year,

Larry