7040, dumbest toolbox ever!

[fast*st]

I'll have to take a pic soon but the M7040 puts the tool box right above the frame and just under the edge of the hood and completely obstructs the oil fill and dipstick, almost impossible to check esp with a loader attached.

So rather than pitching the box and the bracket in the trash, I simply cut off the vertical tab just 1/2 inch after the bend, leaving the tab and bend together and smoothed that edge of the bracket, invert the tab and move the plate forward about an inch so the tool box can clear the loader support. New holes drilled in the toolbox to move it forward a little, grind off all the welds and make it pretty with oem kubota orange paint. It looks like a factory bracket but with better fillets on the corners. The guys at the shop thought it'd be funny to take it to the dealer and try to have them order it

Oh, and now you have a clear shot to the dipstick and oil fill! Interestingly enough, moving the toolbox has removed the severe idle vibration that it used to have, couldn't find an rpm where it'd set to oscillating.

 

[Bulldog]

Yeah, we need some pics of that for sure.

 

[Eric McCarthy]

Sounds like a cluster fuck to me....

 

[fast*st]

Here is the toolbox in the new lowered position, siimple bracket cut and weld, previously, the box was about 8 inches higher than its current location, blocking the dipstick and the oil fill.

 

[chim]

My L3200 may be a runner-up for poor toolbox location. It WAS behind the seat on a crossmember of the ROPS. I promptly broke the lid off not long after getting the tractor. I had the seat flipped forward so the sun wouldn't heat it and had the toolbox lid open when I flipped the seat back up. So for a few months it was an "open air" tool tray rather than a box. I took it off because it was in the way when I built the cab and haven't come up with an alternate location for it to date. Good project for when the weather warms up.

 

[TakerEasy]

Wow, my M7040 is a little plastic box half that size and is located next to the steps. It doesn't get in the way but you can't put much in it at all.

Richard

 

[rednecklimo85]

my b6100 has a "tool box" under the fuel tank, not even deep enough for a pair of medium size vise grips! lol

 

[Bulldog]

My L3000 didn't even come with a tool box. I asked the salesman about it before I bought it and he said it was a new tractor and that I didn't need tools to keep it running.

 

[ipz2222]

"don't need tools to keep in running". Now that has got to be one of the most stupid statements I've ever heard. I suppose that sales person has never been out in the field when something went wrong.

 

[Bulldog]

The closest this guy gets to a field is the golf course. He sells equipment for a living but I bet he can't operate anything above a lawn mower and I bet he pays somebody to do that.