Recent content by muppett

I had exactly the same bolt fall off. Could have been disastrous.

Having rolled my EX45 through 360 degress, I'm looking at replacing it with a NX5010r HST (Australia). Looks like model number is 4b243lwhr Anybody have expereince with this model? Any body know difference between it and EX45 HST please? Thanks

Thanks for the prompt about greasing the front axle, Border Collie. I'm not sure how to tackle that. I didn't measure how much oil that I took out. I do have a workshop manual dated 2008. I went to a dealer and he confirmed that I should only fill till the check plug has oil coming out...

Manual states 7.5 litres. Only took 4 litres. Manual shows filling plug on each wheel as well as on axle. When axle filled via filling plug on axle till oil comes out of check plug, the two filling plugs on wheels are also full. Thanks from an Australian.

I find the parking brake hard to apply so that the brakes stay on. What I need to do, is gently pull up the orange brake lever, then press the pedals hard till I feel the two clicks on the orange brake lever. If I press the brake pedal first, then pull up the orange brake lever, the brakes do...