Hi everybody. Please forgive my long-winded rant. This is my first post and I'm excited to be here. I bought a Kubota B6000 a couple months ago, and while searching for answers to a million questions, I found this awesome group. Most of my questions have been answered in previous postings, so I've been learning from the gurus while not asking the same questions every newby probably asks.
I rewired the dash panel, rebuilt and/or replaced the switches and wires, got it to turn over, purged the fuel line, got it to start. What a sweet little bulldog it is! It ran nicely without much tweaking, so I kept cleaning every day, put new battery, new front tires, lots of WD40, Blew dust off for days, rebuilt the muffler which was crumbling from rust, new glow plugs (probably unneccesary), changed the oil, cleaned more layers of crud, new oil pressure sensor and lamp, replaced the headlight bulb sockets, scrubbed the inside of the headlights with sandpaper (took the glass out of one, broke it, glued it together, it's almost good as new...)
Read many postings in this group, read the manuals, learning every day. The knowledge in this group has already given me more help and confidence than I could express. Some of the threads are 10, 15 years old, but the information is timeless. My million questions have been answered. Thank you all from the bottom of my heart.
There is still a lot of "deferred maintenance" to be done, and I'm planning to build a loader for it because I can't lift heavy things like I once did. You guys gave me the details of the subframe that I didn't know I needed, and that knowledge surely saved my bulldog's back from breaking.
You'd think a million answers would satisfy anybody, but not me. I have a question that I couldn't find an answer. This is my first post here, and I apologize for the long-winded build-up.
The rod in the panel that releases compression connects to a pair of linked levers on top of the valve cover. On my tractor, the first lever was mangled and assembled with the spring above the link instead of underneath where it clearly belongs. I took it apart and repaired the link, but when I started the engine after that, it no longer ran nice and smooth. It took many attempts to start before it caught, and then it smoked horribly grey smoke that filled the yard and kept dying. (Before, it belched a little black smoke upon starting, then the exhaust was clean and it purred, er, uh, little bulldog growled...)
I probably turned the screw with the nut (see picture) when removing the link before I realized it was an adjustment and not just a hold-down. I haven't found any reference to that adjustment. Is it an important or sensitive setting? My plan is to drain and replace the fuel, (the new filter will be here soon,) and that's an obvious step to take, but it ran so nice with the same old fuel several times before now! Eventually I'll pull the valve cover and adjust the valves as described in the manual, but in the meantime, I'm clueless. Any advice would be deeply appreciated.
I rewired the dash panel, rebuilt and/or replaced the switches and wires, got it to turn over, purged the fuel line, got it to start. What a sweet little bulldog it is! It ran nicely without much tweaking, so I kept cleaning every day, put new battery, new front tires, lots of WD40, Blew dust off for days, rebuilt the muffler which was crumbling from rust, new glow plugs (probably unneccesary), changed the oil, cleaned more layers of crud, new oil pressure sensor and lamp, replaced the headlight bulb sockets, scrubbed the inside of the headlights with sandpaper (took the glass out of one, broke it, glued it together, it's almost good as new...)
Read many postings in this group, read the manuals, learning every day. The knowledge in this group has already given me more help and confidence than I could express. Some of the threads are 10, 15 years old, but the information is timeless. My million questions have been answered. Thank you all from the bottom of my heart.
There is still a lot of "deferred maintenance" to be done, and I'm planning to build a loader for it because I can't lift heavy things like I once did. You guys gave me the details of the subframe that I didn't know I needed, and that knowledge surely saved my bulldog's back from breaking.
You'd think a million answers would satisfy anybody, but not me. I have a question that I couldn't find an answer. This is my first post here, and I apologize for the long-winded build-up.
The rod in the panel that releases compression connects to a pair of linked levers on top of the valve cover. On my tractor, the first lever was mangled and assembled with the spring above the link instead of underneath where it clearly belongs. I took it apart and repaired the link, but when I started the engine after that, it no longer ran nice and smooth. It took many attempts to start before it caught, and then it smoked horribly grey smoke that filled the yard and kept dying. (Before, it belched a little black smoke upon starting, then the exhaust was clean and it purred, er, uh, little bulldog growled...)
I probably turned the screw with the nut (see picture) when removing the link before I realized it was an adjustment and not just a hold-down. I haven't found any reference to that adjustment. Is it an important or sensitive setting? My plan is to drain and replace the fuel, (the new filter will be here soon,) and that's an obvious step to take, but it ran so nice with the same old fuel several times before now! Eventually I'll pull the valve cover and adjust the valves as described in the manual, but in the meantime, I'm clueless. Any advice would be deeply appreciated.
