My First Tractor/L1501

Welcome to the site The l1501 is a great little tractor. And don't worry that it's a grey market. You just have to do things slightly different. Instead of ordering parts at the dealer using the model number. You just need to order the parts with a part number instead. Dealer doesn't need to know what tractor the part is going on.

Here's a link to where you can get the part manual. Download the part manual for the L185. It's the north American equivalent

http://www.kubotabooks.com/AutoInde...s/&AutoIndex=b98a7b0d132d25121e96dfaab287c3f2

Now your tractor has a creeper mode. That lever is the one that is sideways on top of the transmission. It has L N H. Put it in low and it gives you 8 more gears of super slow speeds Bear in mind though, that reverse only works in one of the low ranges. So if your in creeper mode and can't get the tractor to go in reverse, move the hi/low shifter to the left of the seat into the opposite position and then try reverse again.

I'll send you a personal message (upper right corner of the page under your name) with a link to the work shop manual

Hey, welcome to the forum. I also have the L1501.
Odd what daren mentioned about reverse, mine reverses in low/low. Its painfully slow though.
One thing i really like about these tractors is the gearing.

mine to have 3 reverse speeds, and as others said no problem with parts and other things.
as for the alternator just restore it, why to change it to a single wire?

did you try to clean the hydraulic filter?
check this out