joea99
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Hour meter stopped working. Tach works fine. Hour meter must be electrical. Anyone have schematics of meter panel, or other advice?
B21 hour meter
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Nope. It's mechanical. I lubed it up a bit and it seems to be working. Problem is, I seem to have broken the fuel and temp pointers off, just from laying it down. Found the bits, but they are incredibly fragile. I may JB weld some toothpicks on the nubs left on the meters and paint them orange.
Carl_NH
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The temp and fuel are the opposite side - did you have the face off I guess?
Did the black round nubs break off with the orange pointer, or just the orange indicator break? If the nubs and pointer broke get some clock hands and silicone them might work - silicone would be less likely to come loose with the vibrations.
If just the orange pointer broke off I would either silicone the clock hands on the nubs, or paint or scribe white or orange line across the nubs so you can see the general temp and fuel level - it would be better than nothing.
Oh unless you remember what the fuel gauge read, fill the tank and put the pointer on F!
Did the black round nubs break off with the orange pointer, or just the orange indicator break? If the nubs and pointer broke get some clock hands and silicone them might work - silicone would be less likely to come loose with the vibrations.
If just the orange pointer broke off I would either silicone the clock hands on the nubs, or paint or scribe white or orange line across the nubs so you can see the general temp and fuel level - it would be better than nothing.
Oh unless you remember what the fuel gauge read, fill the tank and put the pointer on F!
Yeah, I had the face off and laid the cluster face down. The broken off ends I found but they broke in half again, just trying to glue them on. Just about 1/4 inch or so of the dial is left on the hub. Just enough make me think the tooth pick idea might work. The silicone may be better that the jb weld at that.
So, I could not find any flat toothpicks anywhere. Found some round ones that I broke in half, one for each gauge and shaped them with a Dremel tool. Used white Gorilla Glue, the moisture cure type, to glue them to the bottom of the stubs. Used some small bits of folded paper to hold them in place while it cured.
Now to find some orange paint.
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Just had that happen to me with an old L2550. Sadly the tach AND mechanical hour meter were
broken and not repairable. Needles all broke off just from the vibration of handling the cluster.
If the tach is working and the hour meter is not, then often the plastic worm gear is stripped. I
have added a separate hour meter when that happens.
In this case, I used another Kubota gauge that I got cheap.
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Don't have enough time or work on it to say. But, So far, so good. I was concerned that it did not have enough "curl" power on the hoe bucket. But I was trying it on really rocky ground
glacial till they say. I swapped out the 18" for a 15" bucket and it seem OK. I gotta find a 12" somewhere, I guess.
Engine oil and filter change was pretty simple. But I hear hydraulics are a bit more "fun".
There have been a couple times I regretted not getting an L35 I could have had for about same $. But when I go over my reasoning, for my situation, I come up with the B21 as the one,
Mainly, I wish it had a bit more power, but that's a given, with a smaller machine.
