Recent content by Shotgun Merwin

Yeah, thanks a lot. I was goofing around with it over the weekend but got I caught up in this video game where you kill everyone with a chainsaw and I kind of dropped the project. Anyway, i looked at it again just now, and it turns out the third function is actually tied into the work light...

I did a little reading, and discovered you can manual activate a third function valve. The little twist cap looking things on each side of the valve itself have a brass plunger in the middle of them, if you push that in with a screwdriver or something, it will activate one side of the valve...

The label on it says it's kubota, b1672 model.

yeah? So which 4 wires then?

Well yeah, but what would I be jumping? I'm not really finding any wiring diagrams online.

I was plowing all winter and my third function worked fine with my hydraulic plow. I actually came out to take the plow off and get it ready to spring and discovered the third function is totally dead now. I had the third function lockout switch fail on my pretty much the first week i owned...

I've always kind of hated drive over decks. I literally just take decks loose, maybe lift the front end with the loader if i need too, then just pull it out the side. Quicker and easier than drive on, which most of the time your tires are just going to make the thing skid around on the ground...

I guess i'm fancy, i just use a 3 point ballast box filled with gravel.

I put a set of r14s on my b2601 in the winter for plowing, just because they look a heck of a lot more aggressive than my turf tires i mow with. Sadly, in the 2 years since i owned this tractor, we never once had a heavy enough snow to warrant plowing, so i have no idea how they work yet.

did you blow the actual radiator out too? fine dust finds its way down there, even with the screen, and will block the fins up eventually.

There's a clog in your bagger tubing somewhere downstream from the boot on the mower deck. Start at the back of the bagger, put your arm up the outlet and see if you can feel any sticks blocking it. If not, take the hose from the blower to the bagger loose, look inside. If nothing's there...

I don't know about bx sized tires, but different models of the B use smaller tires, the smallest is the b2401 and it uses 5-12s in the front and 8-16s in the rear, and it's the same chassis, so you could try something like that.

The bx's are basically an overgrown garden tractor, the main reason i didn't go with one is they have very little ground clearance. My brother has one so i got to play around with it a lot, his works good for him because he lives in basically a corn field that they started building houses on...

well they SHOULD be able to give you an estimate provided they actually did the diagnostic work FIRST. Instead of just saying, "Meh, i dunno, we're going to try some parts then we'll figure it out afterwards".

That's pretty much how all dealership mechanics work anymore. I've had much better luck at local shops rather than dealerships. It definitely irritates me because i actually was a dealership mechanic at one point a long time ago, and the amount of scrutiny and quality control the dealership...