Our L3940 has arrived! Couple of ?'s Pics but bandwidth warning!

[TripleR]

A new tractor should be perfect, no dents, scratches, missing or bent fasteners. There is no doubt these issues should be remedied by the dealer.

However if I was faced with something like this, rather than wait for someone to come out and make things right, I would probably get the parts from them and fix it myself so it wouldn't interfere with my tractor time.

 

[Grateful11]

Thanks guys. They're having Open House at the dealer today so I think I'll pay
them a visit. Wife is still ticked about not getting a video of it coming up the
hill like the last new tractor that was bought for the farm here 18 years ago.
They called before they left the dealership so she knew they were on the way.
I know that sounds silly but she passionate about her tractors. All they had to
do was call like they said they were going to do when they left the dealership
with the tractor. Right now they have the opportunity to either make a lifelong
customer or lose one that's what she said last night and she's serious. Last
year she bought the JD X720 and a JD 448 Round Baler at the same time, when
she decides she wants something she goes through with it and expects a
dealer live up to what they say they're going to do.

 

[bp fick]

If you have a laptop to take, with these photos on it to the dealer, you could show them these oversights.

They will take your word for it, for sure. Wouldn't leave the dealership until I had those bolts in my hands. Sweet tractor. You're gonna love it.

I assume you checked the dealer's thoroughness in topping off all the fluids?

 

[Grateful11]

Well we went to the Open House today and I questioned the head guy about the
3 bolts and he said they've been coming like that for years and he's asked
Kubota on several occasions why there's 3 bolts and not 4 and they always tell
him it only needs 3 and you only need the 4th bole when you get a Backhoe
sub-frame. They got us a replacment for the messed up Kubota decal on for the FEL.
They gave me a replacement bolt for the keeper bolt on the FEL. He also gave us two
hats. It was a nice little quick 25 minute trip, they had NC BBQ and a
Bluegrass band.

The Rep. from CID Attachments was there, he had some drool worthy stuff
for a FEL and a skid steer.

As far as the fluids , I checked everything and all was fine except the front
axle appears to about 1/8" to a 1/4" low. No fluid in the bottom of threads
when I took it out so I twisted up one of those really strong blue shop towels
and dropped down through the full hole and compared it to the fill hole and
check hole so I'd say it might 1/8-/14" low. I need to pick up some fluid for that.

One question about operation in 4WD, I've noticed that when turning the
inside tire seems to tear quite a bit of turf and I'm not using the diff. lock.
Does the rear automatically go into Diff. Lock in 4WD. In 2WD it doesn't
appear to do this at all.

 

[Grateful11]

I finally got someone to send me a link to download the pdf parts manual for
the tractor and the loader. Only 5 bolts come with the loader for each side,
3 in the front of the lower arm and 2 in the back. The tractor has been
amazing in what it will do. I'm so glad we went with the Kubota with the
Auto-HST and Stall Guard, amazing technology. I don't think anyone else
out there has anything like it.

 

[beppington]

Gratefull11 ... Where did you get your toothbar?

Did the dealer install it?

I'd like to leave the drilling of those holes to someone with the bits/ tools to do it.

 

[Grateful11]

Gratefull11 ... Where did you get your toothbar?

Did the dealer install it?

I'd like to leave the drilling of those holes to someone with the bits/ tools to do it.

The dealer got it from CID Attachments, they also supplied our Bale Spear. They
slot the brackets of the toothbar so that the bolts don't wallow out the holes in
the bucket. They installed it before delivery.

Link

Tooth Bars