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I did consulting work for an implement manufacturer a couple summers ago and the owner told me that steel prices were 40% more than prior to COVID, just to give you an idea of what manufacturers are dealing with. Labor, financing and real estate costs are up significantly as well.

Welcome to the forum Rychehawk. When looking for engine parts, almost anything for a D1101, DH1101 or D1102 will work. They're all roughly the same. My engine kit listed all those applications. In the research I did tracking down parts and looking at specs I found that every single piece...

As repeatedly said here, the liquid asphalt that holds blacktop together is a petroleum distillate, and when you get a stain from oil, it's not just a color change. You've dissolved the two petroleum fractions back into each other. How much depends on how much oil you've spilled and how long it...

I've only ever broken a few taps over many years of using them. Usually not in blind holes, so putting a pair of vice grips on the other side and screwing it back out of the hole usually works for those. You should be able to do this if you drilled the hole clear through the side of your lift...

I'm a die hard manual fan in both my trucks and cars but it's hard to argue with how well a well built automatic handles towing duties. It just makes everything easier, and if you drive them right they can still rival a manual's fuel efficiency. That said, if I could have found a used Super Duty...

This is unlikely to be dealer dishonesty in my opinion. If they wanted to mislead you, they would've fixed the hour meter and made no mention of it, which means they didn't know. In this circumstance, they gave an approximate number that was close to what's on the dash. It's likely they...

Hydraulic oil sometimes has flame retardant in it which is why they refuse it. It messes with their waste oil burners. If it doesn't have the flame retardant designations of HFAE, HFAS, HFB, HFC, HFDR or HDFU, I wouldn't sweat taking it to a place and telling them it's just oil. It won't hurt...

If it's for towing you should be looking at torque numbers, where they get close to peak numbers, and how long they stay up there. The lower the RPM that torque comes on the better. Peak horsepower numbers do matter too but if you have to rev to 5-6 grand to take advantage of it, it won't amount...

I've never had any issues with Stihl saws and I don't know anyone else who has ever had bad things to say about them. My father had a fairly new one seize up many years ago but he let someone borrow it and we think they put straight gas in it. We heated a pretty big house exclusively with...

With a turbocharged engine it's a good idea to let it idle for a minute or so immediately after it's been worked hard to help cool the bearings in the center section of the turbo. Otherwise the oil can cook in there and coke into abrasive carbon and shorten the life of the turbo bearings. OP...

These modern small displacement diesels (small displacement for their power levels) are designed to run at high idle RPM (2600 here) all day and still make it to 10k hours without major engine work. Don't be afraid to crank up the revs, especially while running PTO or ground engaging implements...

How much does he need to lift though? Even a BX loader will lift 739lbs. That should pick up a 55 gallon drum. He could also just use smaller containers than that even.

Oh, also, if the prices and features are comparable, I'd go with the Kubota personally.

Short answer is no, you're not crazy. I had a sub-1 acre lot and found the need for a tractor. Now that I'm on 2+acres, even more so. Everybody thinks it's overkill, but then again none of them do their own work on major building projects or want to maintain a large garden like I do. A tractor...

Couple things: 1. A properly designed 4WD/front wheel drive assist axle should have a gear ratio and tire sized appropriately so that the front and rear wheel ground speed is as close as possible to the same. If not, this is just asking to snap drivetrain components and is a terrible design...

If you brought it to me and it wasn't something critical, I'd say 50 bucks. If it's for a lifting implement or critical component of a road-going vehicle you might not be able to pay me enough to touch it.

Correct. Unless the filter goes into bypass, like at very cold temps when the oil won't flow through the media or at high RPM when oil flow is too great for the filter media to handle (think race cars), all of the oil goes through the filter media all the time.

One more thing to note on this filter, when I pulled it off, for the first time in my life, the filter gasket ring stayed stuck to the mounting surface on the engine. When I removed it, there was a layer of rubber stuck to the surface like if you put some RTV on it (I didn't), which I thought...

Alright guys, so I did get around to changing the oil on the tractor today finally and cut the Fram FD9688 model open that I bought from Advance last year. Ran it for 37 hours during engine break in (I also changed the oil once after about the first hour of running, something I do with all fresh...

Screw jacks work best for this kind of job, especially if you need to leave it for any length of time. No chance of creep and you can leave them in there as long as you need to.

I have a buddy who just learned to back a trailer for the first time in his mid 40s. He did this with a tractor trailer getting his CDL, so don't think you're ever too old to learn. He was also very intimidated but all it really took was a lot of practice. I would recommend practicing up and...

No need for a response, I already figured it out. Just wanted to post here for anyone else who may be dealing with this issue. Turns out the mower had a leaking fuel shutoff petcock under the tank and a gummed up float valve on the carburetor (gravity fed system) so the entire contents of the...

Hey Bob, did the head gasket solve your issue? Just picked up a mower with one of these engines and it's doing exactly the same thing. Runs perfect otherwise, like surprisingly good. Smoked really bad when I fired it up. Cleared up some but definitely still pushing a little oil after a few...

You can get the funds and still get burned by this scam if it's a phony cashier's check. The scam typically goes: they send you the cashier's check(s) but for too much money. They ask you to cash the checks then send them the difference. By the time the checks go through routing your bank calls...

I've used both the single man hand held power auger and the one off the 3-point and unless I need a really big hole I prefer the hand one. Much faster to line up and easier to keep holes straight. If you know to keep it away from your body it doesn't beat you up too bad when it catches rocks and...

Hello jpav. Do you happen to have a manual for the TB600 backhoe? I've looked at the links here for the 330 and I've searched all over the internet and can't find a manual for that particular backhoe.

Possibly related to your issue. I've got an old Kioti LB2204 with the gear drive not HST, but the loader/3-point hydraulics will not move or will only slowly inch for a minute or two when I first fire it up if it's below say 40 degrees out, but the steering works just fine. There's a priority...

Wow, the Fram you pulled apart is much different construction from the one I pulled off the shelf in Advance. Mine looked more like the Microgard you show. Yours has the paper end caps like the trash filters of old sold by Fram. I had to go out and check what I ended up buying just now to see...

EDIT: In light of a response from user M59, I retract the following endorsement. The filter I bought, the Fram Drive FD9688, was indeed of good quality construction, but apparently they are not consistent with this and still use the paper end caps on some models. I'll leave the original post...

That's terrible news. I know from having moved my shop cross country and having to sell a lot of the heavier pieces and then replacing them just how hard it can be to replace some things. Like you said, you don't really know how valuable what you have is until you don't have it any more. At...

The way they're constructed seems to be of better quality than the old infamous Frams from years back that had paper end caps that would delaminate. That is, if they were kept clean enough to keep metal shavings from being introduced into the oiling system of the engine. To those talking about...

I absolutely would, especially given how the newer diesels have become increasingly expensive to maintain. I did in fact choose a gas truck over a diesel. It all depends on the use case too. Work truck, day in, day out, lots of mileage per year, hauling heavy and towing = diesel. Personal...

The Massey 204 I mentioned above (one of the two I had) had a Z134 Continental gas engine with somewhere north of 11,000 hours on it and was still chugging along. I'd say that is at least the equal of any diesel I've ever seen.

I might be wrong but I think Eric Nora, the author of the linked article, may not be an actual expert based on what he's saying. Given how politicized climate science has become I wouldn't believe anything unless it was in an actual peer reviewed journal article, and even then I would approach...

I purchased an old Massey 204 for some of the reasons you listed, but now that I sold that machine and now own a smaller diesel Kioti I prefer the diesel. Even with the extra fuel costs I still spend less on fuel with the DH1101 engine vs. the Z134. While the Continental had reliability to rival...

Thank you!

That's a dead link. Would anyone be willing to PM me a PDF copy that's in this thread?

I know this is an old question, but flywheel should only go on in one orientation. The bolt hole locations will not allow you to screw it up and get them all in. If it went on first try you just got lucky.

I had a similar experience when I first ran my tractor where a bunch of stuff was missing but it was mostly just the bearings, which are generic, and the seals. The top bearing on the kingpin shaft was about 1/2" undersized on the OD and was just flopping around in the housing. I was just like...

I found a pair of garden shears that way once. Right through the sidewall on a 255/45R20 summer tire. Car had AWD so we had to replace all 4 tires. Luckily it was almost due for new ones, but that one hurt the old wallet a bit.

Don't they have to take anatomy classes? I'm surprised so many don't know what a fallopian tube is.

I run synthetic in everything I've owned for the last 10 years or so since the price became reasonable, and I'm very happy with it. Better gas mileage in my cars and trucks, and they're supposed to be better for wear. All my small engine stuff still runs like new for years with it. I'm running...

Here's a better view of the whole set of gauges as it sits on the machine. I think it looks pretty good. I was going for 100% utility here and the locations are simply done that way so they would all fit on that surface, but it turned out good. Everything is really easy to see from the driver's...

So having an older Kioti I ran into the dreaded lack of tachometer issue that plagues these tractors. I have an LB2204, but they used the same dash on the LK series tractors, so others could use my solution here. The tach is from an LB245. Once you get it installed into the dash panel, this...

No dice. Checked the timing today. It's right on the money. I think I should just leave well enough alone.

So, turns out there's a fine adjustment using shims on the injection pump. I remembered your question Robin and stumbled across this info in the repair manual today. I didn't realize there was any adjustment beyond lining up the timing marks on the timing gears. I guess you can tell I'm fairly...

Thank you. That is very helpful.

Hey man, I was looking at options to do a tach/hour meter setup on mine and I was wondering, do you remember whether this tach is clockwise or counterclockwise? For some reason I have counterclockwise stuck in my head, but I can't find anything to verify. What I'm trying to do is just get rid...

Another update: Put the new fuel bowl housing on it, replaced all old rubber lines in the system and that cleared up all the leaks. Still runs like crap for a bit when i start it cold after sitting a few days but it does clear up a lot quicker. Maybe 10-15 seconds now. The trick where you cycle...

So one last update on this. When I tested for aeration the first time, it seemed like it was fixed. Next time I ran it when I hooked up the loader however, the aeration issue came back. The new priority valve continued to function perfectly though. I'm assuming just higher RPM operation yielded...

So I finally got around to pulling the loader off so I could get at the inlet hard line today. With the visibility that allowed I could see that the old rubber coupler hose wasn't in quite as good of shape as I had thought, so I decided to address that before draining the whole system and...

A little update on this. While troubleshooting (and fixing) my hydraulic issue, which I'll talk about in my other thread, I found a pretty bad leak in the fuel bowl valve. Tried to fix it with a new o-ring but it still leaks. I'm thinking corrosion must have caused pitting in the housing and...

Thanks for the insight. It's helpful to me because I've never wrenched on a 3-cylinder diesel tractor engine before this one. I had a 7.3 IDI powered box truck for about a year a couple years ago and that one when everything was dialed in and working properly would fire instantly with no...

If it was compression I'd be very surprised. Brand new sleeves, pistons and rings. Lapped the valves in before reassembly too. I noticed last time I was in there messing around with the hydraulics a little bit of fuel collecting on top of the injection pump. That's gotta be the problem. When I...

So I've been waiting on some bonded seal washers until today which just came in the mail. Just changed the two out on the filter housing and still getting aeration. I was sure it would be that, especially given the condition of one of those washers, but alas it did not fix the aeration issue...

Yes. Cams for both the valves and injection pump were timed when the engine was reassembled.

So I've done some more research and just expanded my search to Kubota stuff since this tractor is so close to the L245. Looks like 6-7 volts is normal for these systems? I'm thinking I'll look at fuel system next. I might have a leak in the hard lines and I'm getting air ingress.

Voltage at the battery terminals drops to 11.8V when I hit the glow plug switch.

I don't have access to a load tester right now. Pretty sure I'm on the tail end of covid and don't want to spread it around, so I'm stuck home for the next few days until I'm completely over it. Anyway, I did check voltage across the terminals and I've got 12.5 volts, and that's after cycling...

Fuel is just a couple weeks old. I ran almost all the old fuel through it before refilling with fresh stuff. Didn't seem to make any difference when the new fuel went in. Not sure what the cetane rating of it is.

Thanks I'll look into that.

So I've been having trouble cold starting the tractor even after the rebuild. It'll fire right away after a glow plug cycle but run really rough for about 30 seconds before it smooths out and runs properly. Very smoky exhaust before it smooths out too. Doesn't seem to matter much what the...

Yes. I got the new cartridge valve and it does indeed fit into the block perfectly with the proper thread form. By external dimensions it's identical to the old one. The guts do look different though. It only sends oil to the steering when I install it. When I had it apart I noticed really bad...

By the way I gave him a call earlier today (actually yesterday now) and we had a talk. He was not able to find a cross reference but he had it in stock. The parts stack up is identical in both drawings except for the old machine's book having it drawn backwards, so I've decided to take a gamble...

Thank you! Totally didn't see this until just now. Had the thread open in a browser window and it didn't refresh when I posted #27. Thanks to oldnslo for pointing it out. I wouldn't have looked back up the thread otherwise. Ordering the part as I write this. Looks like they have it in stock...

This must be a really oddball cartridge. I've looked in a whole series of catalogs and the closest dimensionally that this matches is an SAE cavity. Any of the ISO cavities I looked at are not even close and not a single one of the ones I looked at use this thread size. Parker and Eaton both...

I've already looked at Eaton and Parker. All SAE stuff in their catalogs, what I could find anyway. I'll have to check out the others now. Thank you very much for your knowledge. Very helpful.

So, I got the separate priority valve block in hand and I'm now having second thoughts about going this route because it is huge. I can still make it work if I have to, but it's already a tight fit in that area with the existing hoses, hard line and valve block. I took the valve cartridge out...

I don't have one but I have it worked out in my head. I suspect that even if I put a brand new valve on there it might not work well since Kubota had this exact issue with this part on the B-series even when everything was doing what it was supposed to in brand new condition. I referenced the...

Thanks for the help on this guys. K5lwq I've decided to bypass it because I don't want to deal with the Kioti dealer again, and I don't want to pay whatever extravagant price they're going to want for it even if they do have it. I contacted them twice and they never got back to me when I was...

You can see this unit assembled with a view of the hole in post #4.

This is the one with the hole through the center of the spool. There's another, even smaller hole on the other end of it. It looks like a separate piece, although I don't know how you would remove it.

I tried plugging off the steering discharge port on the hydraulic block and dumping the discharge directly through the top of the transmission cover. This made no difference. I even changed the oil in the transmission at this point because it was in pretty bad shape. So I decided to tear into...

You've got me thinking this may not be my issue now. I missed in his post that he said it dumped into the suction line. On mine it doesn't actually return to the suction line, it dumps back into the hydraulic block and shares a gallery with the "out" port hose on the loader valve which then...

Okay, so I finally made some headway on this. In the parts manual this whole valve block is called the Hydraulic Block Group/Oil Pressure Relief Assembly. I didn't recognize it before because they have it displayed from the back side of the unit for some reason, and I hadn't seen it from that...

So that unit I pulled out of the top there is what I believe to be the priority valve. Underneath that there is nothing else in that chamber to regulate flow. Mine is malfunctioning in such a way that I only get full power to the loader or steering when both are running. For example, if I curl...

So more update on this. Instead of just throwing the steering back together this morning I decided to test everything with the sleeve installed on the end of the cylinder using compressed air. It's a good thing I did because I found that the left turn actuation was not occurring. There's some...

Another update. The priority valve in this application works nothing like the one in the above video as far as I can tell. This valve sits on the top of the priority valve block and partitions oil between the steering and loader. I believe the hole in the center allows oil to pass through...

Okay, so I've done a bit of research on what a priority valve does. I found this video that gives a good explanation of when they're needed. From what I'm gathering here, I think the steering on this machine is likely a closed center system, which I think means that no oil passes through...

I'm troubleshooting the hydraulics on my tractor right now. I thought I had correctly identified the sluggish loader and power steering as a weak pump, but today I discovered something very strange. If I'm running the loader and I turn the wheel in the right hand direction, the loader goes a...

Figured mine out. The vent tube was plugged up from mud dauber wasps. You can see in this photo, it's a little 1/8" NPT pipe with an S shape bend in it. This unscrews by hand. Apparently this is a common issue on these and after just a few minutes I was back in business after running a piece of...

Speaking of hydraulic pumps, I remember reading somewhere on here that you can buy a higher GPM pump to replace the ones these LB2204's came with. Does anyone know which machine the upgraded pump comes off of?

I have the same machine and I'm going through the hydraulics on it right now. I have a few things to add to the above so that others will have it for reference. Above is a picture of what that plug looks like on the top of the proportioning valve when it's out. Someone said that might be the...

By the way, all the finale drive bearings and seals are the same as the L245. I used generic ball bearings because when I first pulled it apart I didn't have any part numbers and just went off of measurements. The seal assemblies are uniquely engineered for this application so I needed to get...

Had to rebuild the whole left front final drive assembly after I got it running. The lower housing was full of a water/oil sludge slurry. Someone had been in there before and put several parts in that were obviously not for this application. I'm surprised it drove at all like that. Found...

Yup. Cable is fine. The actual needle for the tach is detached and floating around inside the dash so it's definitely something inside. :ROFLMAO:

Ran it for over an hour today. Blocked off the radiator and put a new radiator cap on. Old one didn't have a functioning gasket. Drove it around for an hour or so. Found a couple leaks once it built some pressue at some hose clamps and I tightened those. Oil pan temp was about 165 when I parked...

Did you ever get this problem fixed Bob? I'm having the same issue on my LB2204 now that I'm breaking the rebuilt engine in. After about an hour of running it up and down the hill in my back yard, it started puking oil out the shifter. It would be nice to know where to look.

Another update. I finished engine assembly and put the tractor together just enough to drive it around. Didn't want to put the finishing touches on it in case it had to be taken back apart again. It starts a little hard in the cold weather with the 6+ month old fuel in it, but once it warms up a...

Just wanted to update the thread for anyone in the future who needs to source parts for this tractor engine. I still don't know if this engine was manufactured by Dae Dong or Kubota, but for all intents and purposes, it's a Kubota engine. The resleeve/overhaul kit I bought for a Kubota...

I have an update for everyone on this. I attempted to bore the original sleeve on that broken piston's cylinder and the scoring was too bad for it to clean up with a 0.020" (0.5 mm) over bore. There's no 0.030 or 0.040 over pistons available for these, so I bought a rebuild kit with new sleeves...

Found more information on the Kubota/Kioti similarities on this particular engine number. I'm cross-referencing the specs between the L245 service manual and the LB2204 service manual. I've found that every single measurement is exactly the same for the crank mains, crank rod pins, wrist pin...

Well I guess this settles the debate on whether I'll need new pistons. I'm absolutely blown away by how little damage there is to that cylinder wall considering the condition of this piston. The piston itself has a big chunk out of it, both compression rings were in pieces and that big chunk of...

So I got quite a bit further on this over the last few days and other than the fact that I had to do all this work, I'm feeling really good about this engine now. I may even be able to get away with just a cylinder hone and some new rings. Got started tearing the engine down and it's got the...

Started tearing down the tractor today to pull the engine out. I think I found the reason for the engine issues. The inside of the air filter is almost as dirty as the outside in spots. I wiped my finger on the inside of the intake tube and it's completely coated with a fine dust, so it's been...

Did you ever finish this project Mike or did you give up?

So I've done quite a bit more digging, and so I'll give my findings even though none are conclusive. First off, I analyzed a bunch of pictures of the L245 Kubota tractor that has the DH1101 in it, and I can not find any visual differences between my engine and drivetrain vs. that tractor, so...

Yeah it seems like the Dae Dong TD1400 in your tractor would be equivalent to the D1403 from Kubota? It's been very difficult to find public info on any of these engines.

Tractordata says it's a DH1101-B Dae Dong engine. That's not typical Dae Dong nomenclature though. It follows Kubota naming convention, and even has the 1115cc cast into the block just like the Kubota version. I'm really leaning towards these two motors being basically the same, maybe Kubota...

Thanks! Oh it's going to be either a complete rebuild or a repower type situation. Massive blowby and I think one cylinder is so down on compression it's not firing at all. I knew that going in, and I'm not afraid to do the work. I've done a few gas motors already. Finding info and support for...

Just picked up this machine for a pretty killer deal. Needs some work, but even after I get done fixing it, I'll have less than half what it's worth into it. I was going to wait until later this year or early next but couldn't pass this one up. If anyone is interested or can offer some info...

I'm also finding rebuild kits for the Kubota version of the DH1101 all over the place for pretty cheap, so if the castings are the same and those kits would work, I think I may just go that route. Again, anyone with info on the interchangeability of these engines, please chime in.

For example, I keep finding the Kubota D905 engine for more reasonable prices than most, and it would be a good match for this machine power wise, but I don't know if I'll run into any problems with the swap.

Hey everybody. I just became the proud new owner of an LB2204. Tractor seems to be in overall serviceable condition. It goes through all the gears, hi and lo ranges, 3-point lift works, PTO works at both speeds, and there's a pin missing in the 4wd linkage, but everything looks good there...