Recent content by Tim Steele

I spoke with my friend the Service Manager and was quoted $1200 parts and labor if I can haul the tractor there for a complete brake job with all new frictions, steels and internal seals and orings way better than I expected.

Yes just like he told me to. We hooked the supply lines up and filled the reservoir and pumped each one without the pedal hooked up and the brake line disconnected until we got our thumb pushed off the hole and a steady stream of fluid, then hooked up the brake lines. It has to be either air or...

No we didnt try and bleed them before we changed the cylinders but we did after. The shop manager at my local Kubota dealer is puzzled as well because of the lack of fluid loss. They went from working perfectly to not at all and they still dont work. I followed his bleeding instructions of hold...

No brakes!!! 2 days ago I was rolling up to the hay ring on a slight down hill with a bale on the spear going slow thank God , hit the brakes and both pedals bottomed out. Luckily I had presence of mind enough to cut the wheel and head the tractor back up hill to level ground. I got the twine...

Hey Mike thanks for the welcome. I think the 6400 is rated at 85 if memory serves. Daddy was a lime and fertilizer vendor here in the Shenandoah Valley for 30 years and farmed as well. I think at the time he bought the Kubota because it was a little cheaper than a John Deere. In his later years...

Greetings to all and thank Y'All for having me on the forum. I have a Kubota M8950 DT that Daddy bought new with a loader, bucket, hay spear and a v blade setup for the loader for plowing snow. Daddy even though he was a John Deere man through and through bought the Kubota and a Deutz D7807C...