quincy
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I'm officially a Kubota owner now folks!
Very pleased with my purchase. Had a lovely relaxing ferry ride between Ireland & UK yesterday followed by a drive through Lancashire UK (lovely country side and quaint little villages). Even todays return trip was nice, calm seas, quiet roads.... very nice..
The owner of the kubota was a nice genuine guy and made the experience very enjoyable. I went through the machine from stem to stern, looking through everything (thanks to the owners manual I felt I already knew the machine).
I was delighted to find it was cosmetically in very good nick. Everything was there, some mild surface rust but nothing significant. I'll have to get a new seat cover as the one fitted is torn. Took it for a ride through the guys farmland, going through the gears, lo/high ratio good, 4wd working fine... no strange noises or vibrations... Went up a very steep incline about 35/40 deg slope in 4wd and it barely slowed. I recon theres loads of torque left in this girl.
It starts nice, a little smokey for the first 5-10 seconds on startup but after that no smoke at all or only if you give it gas it smokes a little but not much. The engine bay was in good clean condition. Dusty but not oily and manky. Oil was fine, black, no droplets of water, coolant was clear green, not contaminated, transmission fluid clear.
There were only two problems that i could find. The worst of which I think may be the hydraulic lift at the back. It does raise fine no problems but it is very lazy to drop. Unfortunately, I didnt know enough about the internals of the hydraulic system to know how bad this was but I am hoping it is economically fixable.
The other problem were the lights were not working but i'll be fine with sorting this.
All in all I am delighted. Boy this machine can move! in top gear it flies!! No power steering, but the steering seems light enough for this not to be a problem. It has turf tyres and they are almost new by the looks of it. Rear tyres are 29X12X15 and the front 20.5X8X10. Even just going for a potter around my garden this evening, the big fat rear turf tyres really soaked up the bumps I have at the back of my property. I always hated that area on my lawn tractor...
Apparently the hydraulic lift was not used on this tractor, the tractor was primarily used for towing a trash can collection trailer in a community park. There is a 3 point link assembly supplied with it but still in its oil paper wrappings, I'll have to figure how that lot goes together later.... There is a plate and tow hitch fitted just below the PTO which I plan to remove. For towing, I'd like to make up a tow hitch bracket that fits on the 3 point link.
Most of the decals on the kubota have faded. The writing on the labels is written in french and english but most is illegible (the warning stuff mainly).
My poor little "WHITE" LT is sitting there next to the kubota and it looks like a toy.
First thing I'd like to do is change all the fluids, engine oil, transmission, differentials, etc, kinda have a good base to start from...
So heres my first technical problem post (kinda), Hydraulic lift/Drop.... anybody got some ideas for me on this one? Is it a big deal to fix? (I negotiated a good discount on this problem).
thanks,
Quincy
Very pleased with my purchase. Had a lovely relaxing ferry ride between Ireland & UK yesterday followed by a drive through Lancashire UK (lovely country side and quaint little villages). Even todays return trip was nice, calm seas, quiet roads.... very nice..
The owner of the kubota was a nice genuine guy and made the experience very enjoyable. I went through the machine from stem to stern, looking through everything (thanks to the owners manual I felt I already knew the machine).
I was delighted to find it was cosmetically in very good nick. Everything was there, some mild surface rust but nothing significant. I'll have to get a new seat cover as the one fitted is torn. Took it for a ride through the guys farmland, going through the gears, lo/high ratio good, 4wd working fine... no strange noises or vibrations... Went up a very steep incline about 35/40 deg slope in 4wd and it barely slowed. I recon theres loads of torque left in this girl.
It starts nice, a little smokey for the first 5-10 seconds on startup but after that no smoke at all or only if you give it gas it smokes a little but not much. The engine bay was in good clean condition. Dusty but not oily and manky. Oil was fine, black, no droplets of water, coolant was clear green, not contaminated, transmission fluid clear.
There were only two problems that i could find. The worst of which I think may be the hydraulic lift at the back. It does raise fine no problems but it is very lazy to drop. Unfortunately, I didnt know enough about the internals of the hydraulic system to know how bad this was but I am hoping it is economically fixable.
The other problem were the lights were not working but i'll be fine with sorting this.
All in all I am delighted. Boy this machine can move! in top gear it flies!! No power steering, but the steering seems light enough for this not to be a problem. It has turf tyres and they are almost new by the looks of it. Rear tyres are 29X12X15 and the front 20.5X8X10. Even just going for a potter around my garden this evening, the big fat rear turf tyres really soaked up the bumps I have at the back of my property. I always hated that area on my lawn tractor...
Apparently the hydraulic lift was not used on this tractor, the tractor was primarily used for towing a trash can collection trailer in a community park. There is a 3 point link assembly supplied with it but still in its oil paper wrappings, I'll have to figure how that lot goes together later.... There is a plate and tow hitch fitted just below the PTO which I plan to remove. For towing, I'd like to make up a tow hitch bracket that fits on the 3 point link.
Most of the decals on the kubota have faded. The writing on the labels is written in french and english but most is illegible (the warning stuff mainly).
My poor little "WHITE" LT is sitting there next to the kubota and it looks like a toy.
First thing I'd like to do is change all the fluids, engine oil, transmission, differentials, etc, kinda have a good base to start from...
So heres my first technical problem post (kinda), Hydraulic lift/Drop.... anybody got some ideas for me on this one? Is it a big deal to fix? (I negotiated a good discount on this problem).
thanks,
Quincy
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