(Yesterday, 11:10 PM)tommag Wrote: Pulled all but one of the pins on the Kubota loader today, cleaned them and reinstalled them. What a dry rusty mess. Very impressive handwritten maintenance records but whoever was doing it before me was better with a pencil than a grease gun. Learned through trial and error, mostly error, that some pins were easiest to deal with when the hydraulics relaxed, some needed a light load to r&r.
I've got a Kubota diesel zero turn that I'm trying to get working again - been down for a season because it kept destroying drive pulley on the deck. A piece of chain got sucked into it while I was cutting in the ditch toward the end of 2024. Been a royal PITA since - I've gone thru 3 pullies, two belts, and now I've got to do a starter. It also has a hydraulic fluid leak and I've got to take the body off to replace a $2 fuel hose. I feel your pain about pins - there's also a bunch of semi-hidden or just hard to reach bolts that when I look at it, I think to myself "why does this need to be *here*"
When the mower runs tho I love it.
