Recent content by DaveD

Wolfman, have any insights? Anyone? I'm going to change this seal first nice day, but I don't want to do so if it is not necessary!

I backed my 1996 B1700 HST with 1300 hours out of the shed on a very cold morning recently, temp about 20 F, and noticed shortly thereafter a puddle of hydraulic fluid on the floor below the dash cowling. It turned out that it was a leak out of the top seal of the power steering unit. Kubota...

B1700, 1996, bought new. The old "B" tractors are not on your list, but IMO they should be as, like in my case, it was purchased new when I was also a lot newer, and has grown old with me. Because of my age and increasing problems attaching implements to the 3PH, it became a good candidate...

When I first bought my B1700 in 1996 I attached the key ring to a nylon cord, looped about 1 foot diameter, and I hang the loop around the nearby throttle shaft. That quickly became a habit and I have done that for the last 27 years. One would think that you wouldn't lose the key without...

I replaced that hose myself on my B1700 several years ago. The tractor is in the shed and I can't easily get it out to take a photo, but routing and tying was not a problem. Use large ties. You may have to loosen the rear connection a bit and swing the hose down and to the rear to take up some...

I found Snap-tite aluminum caps for my B1700 FEL attachment, but they were so expensive that I bought only one, just to try it out. This was several years ago and I don't remember where I got it. For the 1/4" FEL fittings they are Snap-tite AMPH-4 plug and ADCH-4 cap. I bought the cheaper plug...

I presume you removed the two wedges in the wheel hubs, labeled 120 in the parts diagram below, after removing the pin (160) and the bolt and nut (130 and 150)? If the wedges are frozen with rust they may hold the hub tightly.

Whitetiger, thank you for your sage advice. Note, however, that I never said anything in my first entry about "keeping the tractor level from side to side". Nor did I imply it. Please re-read my first entry and my entry following the one where I responded to you. In it, I suggested that with...

John, that brings up another experience I had attaching my FEL. I have turf tires and 4WD and no, I never run it in 4WD unless I have to, but he original front tires wore quickly--I believe that they were originally defective. As the lugs wore off I discovered that I had to roll the front tires...

Your response above sounds like it's pretty authoritative, but it is incorrect. Perhaps you thought that I was pulling that statement out of somewhere to my rear? My response is not based on speculation, but personal experience. One of my front tires had a slow leak for years and when I forgot...

Check the air pressure in your front tires. Low pressure in a tire will cause problems of this sort for me.

If you turn the new seal over you will see the flanged part like on the old one--the flange in your photo on the left at top. A few years back I replaced one of the seals on my B1700 and it is the same PN as the one you have. I was able to push the inner flange out with some serious thumb...

Here is a screen capture of your version of the control arm bracket from the B2400 parts manual page 104, and these parts are represented in your photo IMG_8148, but note that the two parts number 080 are missing. Those are the conical (cup) washers that should be keeping the arm control lever...

There is a huge difference in the two position control valves and all parts including linkage have to be matched together. I did extensive research on this sometime back because my hitch tends to fall slowly beyond a certain setting of the lever (see...

There are two styles of 3-point lift hydraulic control valves on these models. My B1700 has the new style that is pictured in the parts diagrams. I bought mine new in 1996 and the old style was swapped for the new style then by the dealer. The new style has a control valve that operates more...