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Somebody told them the wrong year but it looks like a nice tractor. I like the older tractors better then the newer ones, more metal and less plastic.

 

@T-yoda is our resident Kubota expert.
Unfortunately he has been very busy and hasn't been around much lately.

 

Dang it! I have been googling and they appear to go for $3-4k.

 

I was busy yesterday. After breaking and replacing my 3240 pitman arm a couple weeks ago it still wasn't right. popping when turning. I pulled it apart and most everything was loose. Tightened it all down and greased everything. The tie rod/steering cylinder ends are non-greasable so I poked the boots with a grease hypodermic needle and filled them up.



Afterwards I did some trenching work on my road drainage with the loader bucket and filled in holes in the yard with the scooped dirt and then pressure washed the mud off. I really love this little Ryobi 1600psi electric pressure washer.
https://youtu.be/JIuYnbDeSrI

 

My 78 year old widow across the street wanted to know if I could pull the deck off her LT 1000 So she could clean it. I said " Why don't you let me take it home and do the job and give it some maintenance?" She was all for that.

she does all her own yard maint. She is more active than many 30 year old's.

Oil change (no filter).

Cleaned the deck and tested the battery (good).

I do think the starter is getting weak. When the engine hits the compression stroke, the starter wants to hang up.

The deck was remarkably clean. She said she tried to clean it every year, but missed last year because her grandson was too busy to pull the deck for her.

Since the deck was in such good shape, I gave it a Fluid Film treatment after I used the needle scaler on the grass build up. The needle scaler is the best tool for finding weak spots in the deck sheet metal.



Before needle scaler cleaning.



After needle scaling.


Fluid Filmed.



Wasn't paying attention and missed the drain can. I'm cursed with always leaking some used oil on my floor. It mostly cleaned up.

And yes this mower has that queer "quick twist" oil drain plug That I hate.

 

Guess it's that time of the year I need to get the mower out...



Grabbed the battery out of the basement and threw it in there. Started almost like it never sat!

It really only needed an oil change and quickly blow out the air pre-filter. The blades are still in good shape from last fall. Used my extractor again, love this thing!



Since I couldn't get my normal Rotella T5 10w30, I had to go with something else. This VR1 will fit the bill...



And it's blue!



New shorty filter fits really good, no more hitting the steering arm.




The Honda push mower is gonna need more work. Somehow it has bad gas while the Cub was fine even though it was out of the same can. Don't know how the heck that happened...

 

I like that extractor. I think that will be on my short list!

 

Oil spots like that can be a pain
I’ve found that saturating with brake clean and then grinding in oil dry or cat litter while still soaked will pull up most if not all the oil, more so than oil dry by itself. I dispise using oil dry as it’s messy dry on its own, but nessesary evils sometimes. I have the fortune of having good pig mats available to me most of the time, so that gets the default. Brake clean and a pig mat work exceptionally well as well. (I also have brake clean available, partials from work sometimes several cans)

 

I found starting fluid works the same as brake clean and it's a dollar a can cheaper. It's almost the same ingredients.

Starting fluid, scrub with a bridle brush and soak up the residual with an old cotton towel works good enough for me.

 

I do not keep that around, brake clean is always at hand for me.
I see starting fluid over used and a lot of damage caused by it. Very good and easy way to shorten con rods and lengthen head bolts. I see at least one engine a season that gets enlarged and several that become dependant on starting fluid. Apparently it’s faster and easier to spray the air filter than it is to allow the glow plugs to cycle when it’s cold out. That the engine revs to high rpm as soon as it starts cold mans nothing happens til the bottom end is sitting in the oil pan. (This is my experience with customers and starting fluid, and a larger reason I don’t keep it on hand)

 

I use it more for cleaning.

I don't keep brake clean on hand. I m a welder/fabricator. Brake clean fumes and welding produce a nasty gas that is pretty bad for you.

Yes, I do agree, peeps use starting fluid more than they should.

I would rather dribble gas into the intake than use either for starting.

 

I have over stock “brake clean” that is acetone that I use for welding stuff

 

Once you have one you will never want to do without it.

 

Starting fluid:
A guy's wife did babysitting for a fellow who worked in a wrecking yard, he paid her in gasoline that he got from the cars.

It hit about -10 and the fuel line froze (carb car) so he and a buddy went at it hard with starting fluid. (IQ of 75 between the two of them)

Blew the head gaskets, antifreeze took out the bearings -- the previously decent car went to the same wrecking yard the gas came from.

 

I should use mine more...maybe I wouldn't leak oil all over the floor so much.

 

I generally only make a mess with mine with the suction tube, no matter how careful I try to be.

 

Bad case sealing. Gasket on the way. BTW, the big, orange filter is now gone.

 

Not sure if this is the right thread for this but let me share my dilemma with you all anyways. I own a wood flooring/construction business and we create all sorts of garbage. I've had a 14' dump trailer since 2005 and finally someone stole the darn thing a week and a half ago. Insurance is about to cut me a check. My questions is do I buy another trailer like the last one (it was a great setup) or do I just buy a cab and chassis with a dump bed on it? If I do go that route I could sell my cummins dually as the new dump truck could double as my tow vehicle for my other trailers. I am interested to hear your thoughts.

 

Another trailer.

The overhead owning a cemercial vehicle would turn me away. Taxes, inspections, needing a driver with proper endorsement. Those are things that bother me.

You can leave the trailer at a job site and the only worry is it getting stolen. Nobody vandalized a trailer. Trucks get hit all the time.

Trailer=less expensive.
Dump truck= big expenses just to own it.

Can you load up the dump truck with kids on the weekend? You can unhook the trailer and loaf up the kids in the duelly.

These are things that come to mind off hand and are just my opinion.