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  1. JerryMT

    Technical Report on Microbial contamination of Fuel

    DOWfuel_training.pdf (hpcdfuel.com) The growth in non-traditional tractor use, especially in low horsepower tractors (SCUT, and CUT) has a lot of new owners buying equipment without knowing about the storage issues of diesel fuel and the potential issues that can affect their tractor operations...
  2. JerryMT

    M4500 Compression Release

    I was looking around "under the hood" of my M4500 with the S2600-A engine and near the thermostat housing, I found a spring loaded lever. I wondered if this was a compression release. I checked my operators manual and there is no mention of this feature there nor is there any mention of it in...
  3. JerryMT

    50 hr Maintenance Video L Series Kubotas

    There seems to be a lot of Tractor newbies on this website. I found this link on the tractorbynet site and thought I'd post it here. This guy has a whole series of videos that might help some of the lesser experienced people here see how easy basic maintenance is on these tractors. Hope you find...
  4. JerryMT

    Ground speed as a function of gear number and engine speed-M4500

    We have a 2wd M4500 that I use to spray with. I'm trying to keep my ground speed at 4mph to spray 10 g/ac. I have a wonderful chart on my tractor fender and also one in the operators manual that lists ground speed as a function of gear number. Unfortunately, they do not give the engine rpm that...
  5. JerryMT

    Problems with Forum.

    I logged in and made a submission on the service and repair Forum. When I submitted the reply, the log in page showed up and I lost my reply. I redid the response and it happened a second time. My response when off into the great cosmic void. This has happened before but never twice in a row...
  6. JerryMT

    M4500 PTO Shaft Cover?

    Does anybody know if the M 4500 has a pto cap to cover the exposed pto shaft? I could not find such an animal in the parts manual but it's hard to believe that all our other tractors have them and the M4500 doesn't.
  7. JerryMT

    Quality of Kubota Service Manuals

    I have owned a few tractors in my day so I'm familiar with service manuals for various manufacturers. Admittedly our M4500 is an older tractor( 1978) but my 1954 Ferguson TO-30 had better Owner and Service Manuals than the M4500 Kubota! I don't know if the newer models are any better but I am...
  8. JerryMT

    Location of M4500 Block Heater

    Our M4500 has a rad hose heater on it and it's shot. I prefer a block heater to hose heaters but at first glance I don't see where it is to be installed. I have installed them in other tractors but I don't see a location for the S2600-A engine. However Kubota offers them for this model. They are...
  9. JerryMT

    Kubota ROPS Program

    Having recently bought a 1978 Kubota M4500 tractor, I understand Kubota Inc has a ROPS program for older tractors. Apparently I can get a Kubota designed ROPS for our M4500 for $319. Has anybody here participated in this program and if so, do you have any comments pro's or con's about it?
  10. JerryMT

    M4500 year manufactured

    I just purchased a M4500 tractor with 2280 hrs on the clock. I know they were built between 1977 and 1985. My serial number is M4500 - 10018 but I can't find a correlation between the serial number and the year of manufacture. Can any of you folks point me to this info? Thanks in adance