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</p> </p> I just call a spade a spade. And I'm not dumb enough to think a pos isn't a pos. Me setting it on fire won't make any of yours work a damn bit better. Nor the OP's.</p> </p> He just needs to expect less, and he won't be dissapointed. Isn't that the motto of the RTV owner?</p>...

It's just refreshing for me to see someone else that expects a certain amount of engineering from a vehicle. </p> </p> But buddy, you had best get ready for it, lol. Cause the longer you own it, the more and more you'll come to notice and "enjoy" these little engineering wonders! I've...

I've never done anything to the system. And it has never been opened up, had a line off or anything since it was built in 2005. Regardless, it seems to have miraculously stopped. I have used it for light each night this week and it hasn't done it once.</p>

</p> I don't know if the gauge is reading coolant or hydraulic fluid, since it seems to mirror the hydrostatic load I had assumed it was hydraulic fluid temp, but I don't know.</p> </p> Regardless, it goes to just shy of red pretty much as soon as you start doing something and usually...

Sticky T-stats is an outdated problem for the most part..... or shoud be. I don't know what changed but sticky T-stats just doesn't seem to happen to most anything built after the 70's for the most part. That's why I found it strange. </p> </p> And I highly doubt the dealer would do anything...

Is there any reason to think it would have a bad T-stat? Is that common on the RTV? I smells of coolant even just sitting and idling. I was using it for light a few nights last week while I was grading out a pad for a barn and I could smell the coolant smell all the way in the cab of the...

</p> If the engine somehow managed to pop a headgasket making the .001 hp it has, then filling the crank with fluid and windowing the block might be the best thing it ever did for itself.</p> </p> lol.</p> </p> So it sounds like it isn't very common for these things to puke then. I'm...

Well, my RTV 900 has always smelled of coolant whenever I've tried to use it for much more than running down to the end of the driveway for the mail, but it's always just been smell, not any actual coolant. Since I have always heard the fan running when this is happening, there isn't ever...

</p> </p> </p> Perhaps I should have left them up so that those who missed them could see that there was absolutely zero "name calling" or anything at all directed toward anyone in my posts. Just so we're clear, Tommy's little fit was due to me "smack talking" and apparently "name calling"...

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Well since my suspension is stock and it reverts tires into the fenders generally steers like dogsh*t and has popped CV shafts out due to suspension/steering geometry bs I'd say you don't have toooooo much to lose by altering it, lol.</p> </p> Don't feel so bad working on a piece of sh*t. If...

I still have no idea why these things don't make use of the hydrostatic unit they come with, and have a shuttle shift lever for forward/reverse. It just seems so childish to actually force the driver to "shift" into and out of physical gear ratios for forward and reverse when all that is needed...

</p> I have needed some lift on mine for a long time now, and it didn't take me but a few minutes with a floor jack to see that by merely increasing the ride height with the existing A-arms and shock tower that a serious camber problem would arise. Which is exactly what Two-guns is making...

</p> </p> Imagine if the RTV had a shuttle shift lever and coasted to a stop if you completely lifted off the pedal....</p> </p> Those two things alone would be worth a lot of capability/driveability. Anyone that has never fought to get the machine out of forward, then into reverse, or...

</p> </p> </p> Absolutely. After I saw the components in place inside the unit it was immediately clear that my suspisions were correct. The way the unit works is that the engine drives the pump rotating group in the hydro unit. Which is nothing more than an axial piston pump. If you...

I might check in to that.</p>

Well, I found a sweet dealership near my new house. It's the biggest Kubota dealer I've ever seen.</p> </p> Anyway, I had a chance to talk to a very knowledgeable tech in the back for a half hour or so yesterday about these things, and general concept and such. He grabbed a whole box of old...