Recent content by lugbolt

I work for a dealer paying cash will get you about a 5% discount on anything but wholegoods kind of weird on wholegoods stuff, manufacturer has some to say in that stuff too. A little cash discount, but the way it works is that there is no haggle on cash sale, plus you have to pay sales tax...

Worked on many they are really, really simple electrical systems. saw a lot of relays go south. Takes 30 seconds to swap them around, takes a few minutes to get to them. but for the most part they're really simple mowers which is good for lawn services. Less downtime.

and when the person washes the mower off, water (and dirt/grass/poo/etc) get into the grease, corrodes and contaminates the grease, and the bearings go south anyway. Seen it many, many times. That's the main reason manufacturers stopped putting grease fittings on mower spindles that use radial...

don't even know what tractor you have but I've seen this before on some of the L series the battery cable splits off, main batt cable goes to the starter, then there's another harness that kind of plugs into the cable right at the battery. That splice often gets corroded up and when you wiggle...

if it's the one I'm thinking of, follow the harness where it goes under the radiator, RH side (as you're sitting on it facing forward), kind of behind the radiator, near the frame. Going off of memory here but I seem to remember a splice down there, kind of hard to get to without at least...

re: throwaway society read between the lines here. Stuff costs. a lot. Particularly OEM stuff. Ask yourself why? Along comes the chinamen who make cheap and inexpensive replacements. They're less expensive and that's what we buy on-price. "I ain't payin $700 for a starter that I can get...

definitely get tested I know of at least 10 folks who have contracted alpha-gal syndrome (AGS) from tick bites, usually the lone star tick from what I am told. Coworker's wife just found out she's got it (and alpha gal fits her personality quite well...), she cannot eat red meat, breaks out in...

just fill it to the top of the vent hole, then put the vent hose back on as I remember. Service manual outlines it. changing the filter is easy, as long as you don't lose the check ball. Or break off half of the bolts in the pan-which is almost a guarantee. If it's just one, might get away...

there's a detent on the deck height cam. IIRC it's supposed to be bolted to the frame. It kind of keeps the knob from turning on it's own, or it's supposed to anyway. If it is loose, or if it's broken (which is more common than loose), the knob will turn on it's own. Getting TO it, you have...

Loader frames are robotically welded. As far as the original post, it happens. Dealers do in fact communicate with each other, and often. Y'all probably didn't know that, but you do now. I'm no longer with kubota dealer but in the 30 years I was, it wasn't uncommon to reach out to other...

yes the gearbox and hst are separate hst is hydrostatic transmission gearbox is what the mowing deck uses. Shaft comes from the engine and runs back to the gearbox which has a pulley on it--which runs the mower deck. You're concerned with the hst in this discussion, or that's the way it...

TSC doesn't get any of my business unless they're the only place that has it. They're the most expensive place in town to get farm type stuff. There is a co-op across town, and then there's a farm supply place-which is about 1/2 the cost of TSC, and usually better stuff. Great owners, locally...

oftentimes on the HST models, we tend to just move the PTO lever toward the operator expecting the lever to return to "off" on it's own. Sometimes it doesn't and you have to manually move the lever all the way to the rear. It has to be ALL the way back to make contact with the switch. If it...

finally figured out how to upload a time lapse. Starts at about 15 min before totality, ends about 12 min after. Note the light from the truck came on. GF got scared and wanted to go sit in the truck. I told her the mountain lions were gonna come out when it got dark...

Science says it might only be, what, 20 psi (I don't know, just using it as an example). How much pressure can those pto, prop shaft, and axle seals take before they start to weep? we have atmospheric air which expands with heat, and then we have hydraulic fluid that also expands with heat...