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I'll be interested to see what using the RTV as a tractor does for reliability. It's not really designed for that. Fitch

Can't make suggestions about it being sluggish with out some information. Do you have the service history on the machine? Was it serviced before you purchased it? How many hours does it have on it? Depending on those answers we might be able to make some suggestions. My machine is a 2004...

With a hundred hours since a full service, I'd change the engine oil and filter, check the air cleaner, check the tranny fluid level and top up if required, grease the few fittings, make sure the spark arrestor is clean, and keep going. I've never messed with the brake fluid or brake seals and...

You're right about PA. A friend of mine built a hunting trailer. To be legal he had to put jacks on all four corners, jack it up until the wheels were off the ground, and un-hitch it from the tow vehicle.

Your point about the stress associated with heavy loads and deceleration is valid. It makes sense to me. The heavy load in the bed would work against it a couple of ways. First, the kinetic energy, second, increased traction. Where the wheels might have skidded to limit the torque on the joint...

A kit was offered, by Kubota, to reduce the passenger ejection seat effect of taking one's foot off the fuel feed. It was remarkably pronounced on ours when we bought it. We regarded the deceleration as sudden enough to be a hazard. Kubota provided the kit and the dealer installed it for no...

I took a look at the battery in my 2004 RTV900 this morning. It's a Deka 526RMF, 540 CCA, 665 CA. Fitch

I'll see if I can read anything on mine tomorrow morning. Edited to add: This thread which has good information. http://www.nettractortalk.com/forums/showthread.php?t=15535 Fitch

I don't know how many companies make lead acid batteries. I do know that EastPenn Manufacturing built the OEM battery that was in my RTV and they built the replacement. The brand name is Deka. They do make a battery for everything I own that has one. The warranty on them is short, 30 months...

Interstate batteries are okay, average, nothing special. They need the warranty service or they wouldn't sell any. I put a new Interstate in my 2002 Jeep, March 2014. It replaced an Interstate that was five and a half years old. I just replaced the March 2014 battery last week, under warranty...

W O W ! Now 'that's' a battery and a half! I'm at 2,039 hours on the original U-joints on my '04, but I jack up the rear and check them for looseness every oil change because I know that's coming. In addition to the battery, I've had to replace the front drive shaft (upgraded to the one...

The maintenance free OEM battery that came with my 2004 RTV lasted 7 years before the cranking speed dropped. That's phenomenal service life. I know a good thing when I see it; I went to the dealer and bought another one just like it. The new one is going strong. It will be 4 years old in July...

Is it a metric bolt? Fitch

I had the Kubota water separator/fuel filter on my '04 and took it off. If the fuel tank was below half full and the RTV was headed down the ramp out of the back horse barn, it would stall from lack of fuel even with new filter elements. If I was going to put on another water separator, I'd...

I hear that. There is also another dimension in my shop. There are several entrances to it. One entrance to it is right behind the buffing wheel. When the wheel grabs something and flings it into that other dimension, or it slips out of my grip and squirts off toward the biggest available pile...

I just replaced the OEM right front head light bulb last week. It had 2,030 hours on it. We turned the lights on when we bought the machine in June 2004 and they've been on ever since. It gets used for chores at zero dark 5AM every single day. We had one bulb burn out in the accessory work...

Nope. You put them away in a place where you would be sure to find them. :eek: I do that all the time, and then forget where that place was. This gets worse as you get older. A lot worse. Fitch (trying to remember what gets worse)

I don't remember the price but I put the kit in my 2004 RTV 900 when it had ~1,435 hours on it. The mud and moisture had taken it's toll on the center bearing and three of the four u-joints. The corrosion was getting to the spine shaft on the front differential and to a lesser extent the spline...

A wiring diagram shows how the wires are connected devices (pin or connection numbers), what their color code is, what pins they connect to, etc. It's extremely useful for trouble shooting. I'm an electrical engineer and the first thing I go for if there is an electrical problem is the wiring...

I'd be happy to tell you but I don't remember exactly. It was expensive, but by the time I priced the parts to do the repair I thought I 'should' do on the two piece drive shaft (rebuild all the U-joints and replace the center bearing to avoid a winter breakdown when the RTV is needed every day...