Hello everyone,
New member of the Kubota family here, as I just bought a new to me L5450 from 1994! I'm basically a newbee when it comes to tractors, having only owned a small garden tractor so far... This one is in a different class!
Tractor is in good shape and everything seems to work as it should, except 4wd. The last owner told me he never fixed or diagnosed the problem as he never really needed the additionnal traction... maybee true, maybee not, but I got what I think to be a good deal on it around here so I took it anyway. It runs fine in 2wd.
I intend to use the tractor on our wood lot in muddy trails so I would of course appreciate the added traction of the 4wd if possible... I read than similars problems on kubota are often caused by a stripped coupling linking the transmission to the propeller shaft or the propeller shaft to the front axle, wich would be, it seems, an easy and innexpensive fix. So I went to remove the propeller shaft cover first, but it is blocked by what appears to be a cross member for added strenght to the loader (wich is a LA1150). This piece is quite intimidating, held by 8 big nuts and maybee 3/4" thick metal. See attached image.
I bought the service manual thinking maybee it would explain how to work around or remove this piece, but there is no mention of it, the manual simply says to remove the propeller shaft cover... Wich basically confirms that this part is from the loader assembly. My question is then, is it the correct approach / safe to remove this part to then remove the shaft cover? The shaft cover doesnt appear to be telescopic as many I've seen while searching.
Thanks for the help!
New member of the Kubota family here, as I just bought a new to me L5450 from 1994! I'm basically a newbee when it comes to tractors, having only owned a small garden tractor so far... This one is in a different class!
Tractor is in good shape and everything seems to work as it should, except 4wd. The last owner told me he never fixed or diagnosed the problem as he never really needed the additionnal traction... maybee true, maybee not, but I got what I think to be a good deal on it around here so I took it anyway. It runs fine in 2wd.
I intend to use the tractor on our wood lot in muddy trails so I would of course appreciate the added traction of the 4wd if possible... I read than similars problems on kubota are often caused by a stripped coupling linking the transmission to the propeller shaft or the propeller shaft to the front axle, wich would be, it seems, an easy and innexpensive fix. So I went to remove the propeller shaft cover first, but it is blocked by what appears to be a cross member for added strenght to the loader (wich is a LA1150). This piece is quite intimidating, held by 8 big nuts and maybee 3/4" thick metal. See attached image.
I bought the service manual thinking maybee it would explain how to work around or remove this piece, but there is no mention of it, the manual simply says to remove the propeller shaft cover... Wich basically confirms that this part is from the loader assembly. My question is then, is it the correct approach / safe to remove this part to then remove the shaft cover? The shaft cover doesnt appear to be telescopic as many I've seen while searching.
Thanks for the help!
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