I have a gck60-23bx grass catcher and need to change a u joint kubota wants over $100 for the part does anyone know of a alternative any help would be great thank you
PTO shaft u joint
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Russell King
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Take it to a NAPA store and they may be able to measure it and get a replacement
Just went through this with the front u joint for my 4x4. First check the splines in the yokes. Mine were worn pretty bad, so I had hoped to get the u joint and one side if the yoke. Turns out it's a stupid size that didn't cross over to anything I could find, and kubota sells the ujoint pre mated to both yokes. $158.00 later I had the part I needed. Best of luck, but if it's the same one my B takes your most likely gonna be out of luck.
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Take it to a driveline shop and see if they can find a suitable replacement ujoint.
Firstly, what's broken? Cross bearings are relatively cheap and easy to replace, that's what usually fails and it's one part. If you broke a yoke, that's what gets more expensive because you are now replacing possibly two yokes and a cross bearing.
$100 for a complete assembly isn't really that expensive.
$100 for a complete assembly isn't really that expensive.
again, post the part number, ANY 'bearing supply store' can easily cross it to probably a $20 part....
you can walk it in, they'll measure it, 'old guy will walk to back, grab one', 'young kid has to use computer...)
you can walk it in, they'll measure it, 'old guy will walk to back, grab one', 'young kid has to use computer...)
Like I said best of luck, and if Napa or anyone can cross it please post up the part number. I have a bunch of standard low hp pto u joints here at the house for other equipment and none of them line up with any of the u joints on my machine.
Ouch, $150 for a cross bearing that doesn't weigh 20 lbs sounds a little on the steep side! Must be a real low volume oddball part made by New Holland out of unobtanium.
That part number keeps coming up as going to a BX26 instead of 23 for me.
In any case I'd be going to a driveline shop. I'm betting it's nothing special.
It's both yokes and the u joint. Kubota like so many other Japanese companies run odd ball sized stuff. If you find a cross to a standard bearing please let us know. I know on my old yanmar and the u joint I just replaced on my B series was an odd ball that didn't cross over to anything standard.