Recent content by Joe Kelly

Thank you, guys! Great advice about try the simple step first; I never thought of that! Guess it's my pessimistic nature! I will pull the grease fitting and see if it's the blockage before proceeding to pull the pin! Joe K

Hi Folks! I have an LA853 FEL on my L5030 and have had trouble getting the upper bucket cylinder pin to take grease. Now having reinstalled the FEL after a winter off, that pin will not take grease, period. The pin is 1" plus diameter and retained with a small (5/16"?) bolt and elastic stop...

Thanks, Eric, for that link to Long's..... yes, indeed, they offer cool stuff. I would really like to have a snow blade to quick detach and switch between bucket and blade. A bucket is great for short distances and cleaning a yard area but it sure isn't a plow and doing a mile of road really...

Thanks, again, fellows for the additional input to dealing with pressure gauges and loaded tires. And thank you, Tiredguy, for telling us there is a gauge specifically for loaded tires....no one in my parts could come up with that! So I will look for that gauge and also jack the tractor to...

Thanks, fellows! Great tip to jack up the tractor to take weight off the tire. I will try that! Joe

Does it have to cost $10 each time I check my tire pressure, that's about what I have to pay for a pencil tire pressure gauge that gets gummed up with my unknown loading fluid. The stuff is brown and frothy. With the valve stem at 12 o'clock I blast air in 2 or 3 shots to hopefully clear the...

I want to thank Dave on the forum for sending me pages from his service manual....scanned and emailed to me....oh, my, technology is fantastic! This forum has been most helpful with my tractor questions but my latest issue, the oil leak with the generator has been helped a whole lot, thanks to...

Thank you, Dave! How has your experience with the 6500 been? I've had no complaints at all until this damn oil leak! It has started in the dead of winter with the glo plug ignition.....might take two cycles of pre-heat and crank but it always starts. And the power supply is good and...

I bought my Kubota generator at the same time I bought my tractor, an L5030 back in 2005. The generator has few hours, it is for back up only and mostly only runs 4 times a year when I exercise it for an hour. I was very annoyed to find an oil leak after the last run....puddle of oil under it...

Thank you, Vic! Now that's a great, detailed step by step process to solve my stiff joy stick problem! You didn't mention anything about adjusting on reassembly; is that just a case of taking all the "slack" out and then tighten the lock nuts? Joe

Let me echo that "thank you" and the Tech Tips provided by "eserv" was quite eye opening to say the least.....it takes hours for the fluid to get thru the bearings and fill the lower extremities....who'd have thought? JoeK

Hi Guys! This seems so trivial compared to other problems I am reading about on this forum....my joy stick is just an aggrevation in the cold. It's not "fatal" in that it always resolves with time in operation ...... from 20 to 30 minutes usually. Attacking the cables and possibility of...

fruitcakesa, My apologies....I didn't even know about the private messages on this site and just discovered your question from what? three months ago.....so sorry I missed that! I somewhat answered it above.....but your specific question as to how much I actually ended up getting back...

Hi 78vette! Aggrevating, isn't it? When you can't get the "right amount" of fluid back in! Has you wondering what damage you might do..... I assume you drained your axel from the lower pods on both sides....and those plugs are so close to the ground I had to use a dog dish as the only...

Thanks, guys! I'd love to take them apart....clean and lube....but I fear the adjustment factor and not knowing what I am doing. The lock nuts on the underside of the remote block inside the cab suggests "adjustment" I can't clearly see the cable ends at the hydraulic block outside the...