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Up to this point I have only had to do the regular maintenance on my Kubota L175. I use it for mowing with a 4ft shredder and pulling the chicken house around. It's pretty light duty stuff. It has a over 2500 hours on it and that might be low. I bought it second (third) hand and I found safety yellow on the frame under the controls so I assume it was used by a construction crew or a school. There is no doubt in my mind that it has had a hard life. That said it has worked quite well up till today.
I had been thinking I had been hearing a noise when mowing. I know what you are thinking "they are pretty noisy with the shredder going" but this is different. You know how you can tell, when you use a piece of equipment a lot that it sounds different? Well it sounded different.
On the day before yesterday I was mowing some pretty tall Johnson grass and it got kind of hot. Some transmission oil bubbled out of the gear selectors. I cut the mowing short and put the tractor away. Today I took the tractor to the field in some not too tall grass and engaged the mower.
I mowed a path of maybe ten feet and the PTO caught and shuddered. I disengage the clutch and then gently tried to engage the clutch with the tractor out of gear. It tried to spin the PTO then it jerked and popped so I didn't try it again. The problem is in the PTO not the shredder.
My thinking is that a bearing(s) have turned loose. It is just a feeling and I won't know until I get in there.
It has been over 38 years since I split a tractor back in diesel mechanics class. I hope i am up to the task.
It's a nice little tractor and does everything I need it to do. I hope it is reparable and that I can find the parts.
Up to this point I have only had to do the regular maintenance on my Kubota L175. I use it for mowing with a 4ft shredder and pulling the chicken house around. It's pretty light duty stuff. It has a over 2500 hours on it and that might be low. I bought it second (third) hand and I found safety yellow on the frame under the controls so I assume it was used by a construction crew or a school. There is no doubt in my mind that it has had a hard life. That said it has worked quite well up till today.
I had been thinking I had been hearing a noise when mowing. I know what you are thinking "they are pretty noisy with the shredder going" but this is different. You know how you can tell, when you use a piece of equipment a lot that it sounds different? Well it sounded different.
On the day before yesterday I was mowing some pretty tall Johnson grass and it got kind of hot. Some transmission oil bubbled out of the gear selectors. I cut the mowing short and put the tractor away. Today I took the tractor to the field in some not too tall grass and engaged the mower.
I mowed a path of maybe ten feet and the PTO caught and shuddered. I disengage the clutch and then gently tried to engage the clutch with the tractor out of gear. It tried to spin the PTO then it jerked and popped so I didn't try it again. The problem is in the PTO not the shredder.
My thinking is that a bearing(s) have turned loose. It is just a feeling and I won't know until I get in there.
It has been over 38 years since I split a tractor back in diesel mechanics class. I hope i am up to the task.
It's a nice little tractor and does everything I need it to do. I hope it is reparable and that I can find the parts.