Hello everyone I am new to this forum but have experience in others. Thanks in advance for any ideas, thoughts or help you may provide me.
I have a Kubota 5040 which is about 6 years old now. We use it on our golf course as our main tractor so it gets used a lot in pulling grooming mowers and pulling a big trailer to haul sand and cut up trees around the course. It has been a horse for us but about two years ago it started making a whinning noise which is pretty loud now. We think an operator let the hyd oil get low due to a leak from one of the rear quick connectors. We changed the hyd oil out replacing it with the UDT that Kubota recommends. when we pulled the filters we noticed ball bearings inside of it. I have looked through a parts manual at the system and tried to determine where they could of came from. I do not see a sump or a pump which would have a filter on it (like an engine) or a way for the bearings to enter the system. We know it could not of came from the hyd pump above the filters because there is no clearence for a bearing to move through it. I have to wonder if the bearings and the whinning noise are from the same issue. Other then the noise the tractor runs great.
Do any of you have any idea of where the gearings may have migrated from? or how about what may be causing the whinning noise?
Any ideas will be checked out. While I do not want to split the tractor I will if it comes to that. It will be the first time with me splitting a kubota but I have lots of experience in John deers.
I have a Kubota 5040 which is about 6 years old now. We use it on our golf course as our main tractor so it gets used a lot in pulling grooming mowers and pulling a big trailer to haul sand and cut up trees around the course. It has been a horse for us but about two years ago it started making a whinning noise which is pretty loud now. We think an operator let the hyd oil get low due to a leak from one of the rear quick connectors. We changed the hyd oil out replacing it with the UDT that Kubota recommends. when we pulled the filters we noticed ball bearings inside of it. I have looked through a parts manual at the system and tried to determine where they could of came from. I do not see a sump or a pump which would have a filter on it (like an engine) or a way for the bearings to enter the system. We know it could not of came from the hyd pump above the filters because there is no clearence for a bearing to move through it. I have to wonder if the bearings and the whinning noise are from the same issue. Other then the noise the tractor runs great.
Do any of you have any idea of where the gearings may have migrated from? or how about what may be causing the whinning noise?
Any ideas will be checked out. While I do not want to split the tractor I will if it comes to that. It will be the first time with me splitting a kubota but I have lots of experience in John deers.