sluggish transmissin rtv900

You didn't say what year it is. Mine, a 2004, had deceleration that was remarkably quick - hazardous truth be told. A person that wasn't prepared for it might be unseated. A few months after we bought it, Kubota came out with kit to install that moderated the deceleration and made it tolerable.

I've never, ever, seen foam looking in the filler cap. If you are convinced/willing to assume the fluid and filters are correct, you might want to get the service manual, or go to the dealer and see if they will photocopy the trouble shooting section for the transmission.

Mine has a flow chart for trouble shooting the hydrostatic transmission on pages 2-S1 and 2-S2. The Charge Pressure relief valve and the High Pressure relief valve seem to be the cause of several problems. So measuring the pressure as suggested above is good advice.

There are also some mentions of servo piston adjustment and linkage adjustments.

At that point it resorts to the statement, "Replace Hydrostatic Transmission Assembly." At that point you will definitely need the service manual if you want to disassemble it and fix it instead.

Fitch
 
Appreciate all the new input fellas. As I said in my previous post I moved so taking it to a dealer I trust isn't an option. I didn't buy it from a dealer, I bought it from someone I used to work with. I'm sorry if you didn't lie my response earlier about some real advice, but when I say it has fresh fluids and filters and you tell me to change them that's kinda dumb. I'm still getting set up in my new place so I'm kinda too busy to put a wrench on it right now. The lift and power steering both work fine. Think I'm just gonna part it out. Already got a guy offering me more for the motor then what I paid for the whole thing.
 
Sorry, its a 07. And thanks for the laughs keifer, if you still need an adjustable metric wrench I have one I'll sell you for 30+ shipping. Its a snap on so that's a good deal. The decel doesn't bother me. I'm used to it. I've drove plenty of these things to know you can't just let off the gas. The oldest one we had at work was an 05 and it never had brakes put on it, lol
 
The lift and power steering have different reservoirs . I think that the hydraulic lift and pump for it is almost a grand when bought separately.

Manuals on cd can be had off of e bay or used to could be found there and they're cheap ..
 
Thanks. I thought the lift had a separate pump (on top of the trans)but someone brought that up earlier. Haven't really looked at the power steering but I know on some of our lift trucks they used the transmission pump for pressure. Just thought I'd throw it in in case its useful information.
 
BCZOOM, thanks for getting my thread in there before I saw it. I was ready to tear the tranny down in mine to see what the hell was going on before I started that thread and started poking around. Same EXACT problems pickupman6 is having to a "t". Foamy fluid after moving the few feet it would crawl, revving up and not going anywhere...same same. I had a hot filter after a few minutes of attempting to go 5 feet. I didn't believe it either...in fact I think the company I bought mine off of told me that they had just serviced it.

For less than $100, it was worth the fluid swap. Before I did it, I messed with the pressure screws, linkages, everything. When I got done with everything I knew how to do, I pulled the filters and discovered a little trace of white slime in the top orange one. That was enough for me, drain, fill, change filters. Off she went like brand new used. Fluid and filters are the cheapest mistakes you can make on these picky little boogers. If it doesn't work, at least you've got new filters! Good luck!
 
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