transmission fan shot.
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keyman1808
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You have better believe it has a HST cooling fan underneath.
Yup, I just did some searching and found a long thread on a BX2660 that had the fan damaged by a stick. Yikes!
keyman1808
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Brotek makes a nice skid plate to protect that fan. No fool proff but very good
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David s Von Gieserbrechta
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Keyman Yuh got that right about it not being foolproof, as I mentioned in the first post on this thread, "I have a Brotek skid plate and I've still got a busted up fan, but I guess "Sh%t happens". I never found out where the stick got in, as a matter of fact I didn't even find the stick as there were so many of them, all I heard was the noise and when I backed up all there was, was no stick, no noise and no fan. That coupled with being some two miles from home made for a very slow ride back with many stops to allow the transmission to cool down.
All in all it wasn't a good day. I think that it might be a good Idea to put a temp sending sensor in the transmission to at least let a person know what temp the transmission is running at. I was lucky that I heard the fan die but I wasn't going at full throttle either. Had I been I might not have heard the problem and kept on working the machine and that would not have been good. A temp gage would prevent that from happening.
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keyman1808
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A temp gauge would be a good idea. I cant remember the members name but I believe he installed a temp gauge and an aux cooling unit for the HST. I makes me wonder if the aux cooling unit he installed would work fine enough without the HST fan underneath. From what I read it was a very easy mod. Of course I didn't have to engineer it so reading about how to install it is far easier than doing it.
Might be a better alternative when our HST fans break. I believe I have the tread bookmarked at home on my Ipad. I will look tonight
Might be a better alternative when our HST fans break. I believe I have the tread bookmarked at home on my Ipad. I will look tonight
Deano
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I purchased the Brotek skid plate and realized that it needed another forward of the first one. Instead of buying the 2nd from Brotek, I made my own. The first one helps tremendously, but there is still areas that a stick can "find" it's way to the fan.
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zoltanthegypsy
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There are actually _three_ Brotek plates for the BX these days.
If Richard comes up with 4th and 5th plates, I'll cram those on too
Older, sadder, and (slightly) wiser,
Z.
If Richard comes up with 4th and 5th plates, I'll cram those on too
Older, sadder, and (slightly) wiser,
Z.
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David s Von Gieserbrechta
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There are actually _three_ Brotek plates for the BX these days.
If Richard comes up with 4th and 5th plates, I'll cram those on too
Older, sadder, and (slightly) wiser,
Z.
I believe that I will be taking off the brotek plates this winter as I don't need them in the snow and then as I have time I will be making my own that nothing short of an artillery shell will get through. I'm not going to go through this crap of busting up another fan. As I have mentioned I will be making a stainless fan but there is still that oil filter fuel filter , lift pump, wires and linkages to conceder. I can't afford to be second guessing myself when I'm in the bush cutting wood as the terrain is not the most hospitable for a tippy tractor.
I have a friend who makes sail boards and he will be supplying me with epoxy ,carbon fiber and Kevlar to make the new plate or plates it's going to be pricey but it will be light and it will be strong and it will fit.
Now I'm not knocking the Bro Tek plates but I had both the front and rear plates installed and I still have a busted fan. As has been said very few things are fool proof, but I'm really gonna try to make it about bulletproof.
David
zoltanthegypsy
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Can't wait to see the pics of the finished products!
I don't have your skills (or friends) so it's Bro-tek for now. It's still amazing to me that Kubota doesn't have some kind of (optional, maybe) armoring for the BX underbelly. I'm told there is a rear plate these days, but that wouldn't have helped me.
As I've whined in other threads, it was just tall grass that wiped out the wiring harness and rad fan. And front bevel gear seal. And my confidence in Kubota...
Z.