Rtv Range Select

[Rick_Taylor]

This was passed along to me from my dealer, Zimmerer Kubota. When changing gears, be a little patient and wait 5 seconds after lifting your foot from the pedal. You'll find the lever moves out of gear easily. As long as the machine is not moving it will slip into any new gear. I had doubts but one try was a convincer, it does work. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[whoodle]

I usually count slowly to seven before switching, tonight, however it seemed to be a bit better. I'm hoping it is breaking in.

 

[kabootie]

i just had mt 50 hour service done had the dealer put the super udt fluid in the tranny hoping it would help the gear shifter come out of gear better on hills "not any better at all" and also ask them about the drive shaft rattle the guy said he called kubota and thay told him it was back to square one on this problem.they would let me know on any update on it

 

[bczoom]

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kabootie,

Your shifter on the dash is coming out of gear??? Under what conditions? That definitely sounds like a linkage issue and not something inside the tranny.

Brian

 

[kabootie]

you misunderstood me it will not come out of gear on a hill unless you turn the motor off

 

[bczoom]

Oops, my bad.

Have you tried the emergency brake fix?

When on a hill and stopped:
Apply the emer. brake good and hard.
It should then shift out of gear.

Do you have the new style speed control assembly (where the RTV doesn't stop very abruptly when you let off the pedal)? If so, you'll need to add a 5-10 second delay after applying the emer. brake before attempting to shift.

 

[Tact]

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Are you stating that they are back to square one since the new design fix which is out now? If that's true it would be very disappointing.

 

[Dargo]

kabootie, I seem to have been one of the first guys to have this not being able to shift on a hill issue. Somewhere there is a thread on it here that is likely a year old. I could literally have broken the gear selecter lever off and not have gotten it out of gear. My only choice was to shut it off.

On that issue, not a lot has changed. I now need to adjust my emergency brake, I've stretched the cable from using it to try to help the shifting, and the emergency brake adjustment looks like it will require me to remove one of the side panels. Personally, I've given up on being able to shift on a hill unless I either wait for several seconds (which I don't like to do - I still consider this a design flaw), or shut off the engine (again, I consider this a design flaw).

Now, I'm waiting and wondering about this front drive shaft rattle. I'm beyond disappointed in my dealer. He told me for months that there is no problem; so no fix. Now I'm out of warranty, since I waited for him. /forums/images/graemlins/mad.gif /forums/images/graemlins/mad.gif /forums/images/graemlins/mad.gif /forums/images/graemlins/mad.gif

Although I think the RTV is a heck of a UV, I'm very disappointed in Kubota. In well over a year now they cannot get the RTV's to shift properly, cannot fix the front drive shaft rattle, and have never been able to provide any gauges that don't fog over in about 1/2 an hour. There is one guy at Kubota who has tried to be helpful and has been able to provide me with several sets of gauges, but they all fog over. I have the RTV, so I suppose I'll try to deal with it. Unfortunately, I will now say that, if given the chance again, I would not buy the Kubota RTV. I've since bought a Yamaha Rhino that gets twice the use, and twice the abuse. It has never had to go to the dealer, and has never had a problem.

Sorry to sound so down on Kubota, but I feel that customer satisfaction has taken a back seat to production and profit. I think Kubota will never address the issues until sales drop because of them. I've had basically zero dealer support, and my dealer has acted like I am the only person in the country with the problems I've listed. That tells me that I either have a very uninformed dealer, or a liar. Neither is good.

 

[Ricochet]

I'm afraid the gear selection when stopping on hills is inherent with a HST style T/M (nature of the beast so to speak...I'm not sure if there is a design fix for it), the driveshaft rattle problem is being addressed (there was a fix but after testing found it caused a durability issue so it was cancelled till further notice) and I don't know what to say about those gauges (they should not fog up now)...they need to be looked at again I reckon.

 

[kabootie]

you no you are absolutly right my dealer gave me a look of surprize when i ask about the drive shaft rattle then started back peddleing when i picked it up a few days later but he informed me that if and when kubota come up with a fix it did not matter if the warrenty was out thay would fix it. and about the gear shift coming out of gear on a hill a read on a post somewhere here that if you use super udt fluid it would help it but it did not help at all the only thing i can tell is it has a little more pep on acceleration like i can climb a hill better in a higher gear than before i quest its the new fluid and filters