Bad stack rim/tire theory or following company recommendation theory?
This is my theory, (slightly altered from John Thomas)
A few years ago in the Kubota manufacturing plant, there was this cute secretary that had been given the job of making the maintenance schedules for the Kubota BX line.
She was cutting and pasting columns in her charts when the boss interrupted her to get him some more coffee pronto ! She went around the corner to the lunchroom to get some more, only to find that coffee pot empty and burning on the element so much so that just then it popped the fuse and the office lights went out. So she figured she would go downstairs and get some coffee from the Kubota assembly line lunchroom. She was walking past the front wheel line when her skirt distracted the machinist who was setting the tolerances for machining the next batch of front rims. Unfortunately the machinist did not double check his tolerances and the next batch of 500 rims was made and later added to the partial pallets of good rims in the warehouse.
The secretary managed to get that coffee and got back to the office to find that when the fuse blew, her computer went off too, without saving, and she never did get around to fixing that spreadsheet of maintenance schedules.
So we can blame:
1. the boss for not getting his own coffee
2. the machinist for stealing coffee from upstairs and being a leg man
3. the electrician for putting the computer on same circuit as coffee pot
4. the computer dept because they didnt install auto backup in her computer
either way it is a mans fault probably
, the question was asked about leaking BX tires... I've had the same problem with a slow leak of the right front R4 since day one (about nine months, now).
And the little BX lives in Sweden This thread are very funny I thought I had a broken tire but it seams to be in the gens...
Same as mine i got a couple of weeks ago.
I've had a bottle of wine in my fridge for a couple of years. can't hardly take the taste of the stuff but someone gave it to me. Now it or the cork will have some value to me. I searched and found the other post for the 3/4" so I'm going to have a couple of corks and maybe get rid of this nasty tasting stuff.JT, cork lesson
Get a cork, a large diameter from some wine bottles. 1" or so in diameter. Using a utility knife, shape one end with a little taper. When you pull the screen, have a pan under there, because you will lose 1/2 pint, but no big deal. DO LEAVE the dip stick in place Actually the vacuum holds the fluid in pretty good. If you pulled the dipstick, you would have a place for the make up air to enter, which would speed the leaking.
Anyhow, carefully pull the screen. Have cork plug (or tapered rubber) ready and stick it in. You now can take your time about gently cleaning the screen.
That's the trick. Simple and efficient.
The taper is cool because it mean you don't have to have a "perfect" fit. It does need to be approx 1" tapering down to 7/8" or so.
My problem is about to be resolved with my slow leaking right front tire on my BX2660. Talked to Gray (parts man at Barlows) and told him to file me a warranty claim for a new tire or tube it. He said go ahead and tube it and they will pay. Here it is on it's way to being tubed. When I get it fixed I will be quitting the "one front tire has slow leak on BX Club", you guys will just be an old memory. I couldn't budge the bolts to remove it with my socket wrench so I finally got out my new air wrenchs and Wow! I hit the trigger and the bolt was off almost before I could let go. I'm now an air wrench believer.
I lost maybe a cup on the filter and didn't have to be fast, it came out of the filter, don't think any came out of the tractor. Lost half a qt checking screen because my self made plug was to small
, threw away and topped off with about a half quart SUDT from the qt bottle. It's a real simple job.
