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For about a year I have found that every month or 2 I am down half a quart of fluid in the front axle case of my 1999 B1700 HST. I looked and looked and could never see a leak. The book says to use either super UDT OR 80 weight gear oil ( which is weird, kind of like dating Heather Locklear OR...

As I near 800 hours on my B1700 HST, I need to consider the recommended valve adjustment maintenance . This is the only thing in the list of scheduled maintenance that I would have to ship to the dealer to get done. That means getting a truck and trailer, shlepping 80 miles , not having the...

Last time I posted here was about 3 years ago. I remember when we first hit 1000 registered users, now it is almost 20,000! Looks like I have a lot of catching up to do. Are Bird and Mark Chalkley still posting here? PaulB 1999 B1700 HST FEL, back blade, Millcreek 50 manure spreader, King Kutter...

Having just bought a motorcycle, I had to make the decision between two cylinders, three, or four, overhead cams or pushrods, two valves per cylinder, or four, etc., and it got me to thinking, I have NO idea what type of motor is in my B1700. It must be overhead valve I assume, flatheads went...

Not one thing to do with tractors, but I just CAN'T be the only Johnny Cash fan on this board, so I figured a friendly pointer was OK. I have been a fan of his since I was a little boy, but I have to say that his most recent CD's are the best work of his ever. I just got his newest (American...

I have spent hours and hours searching the net for a Harley forum that is even close to what we have here at tractorbynet - easy to use, friendly, full of information, lots of active users, etc, and I can not find anything even close. Is tractorbynet simply head and shoulders over everything...

I can not figure out how to search the archives, looking for a thread prior to the site update. Redhawk needs "Sticking throttle on a B2400HSDB", and I can not help him get there.

Went to hook up the manure spreader last night, and the 3 balls on the inside of the pto shaft (the end that hooks up to the tractor pto) were frozen in place, so I could not slide the pto shaft on to the pto drive. I had to get a hot air gun and defrost the pto collar, then everything slid on...

Not a darn bit related to tractors, but the "brain trust" has not failed me yet, so I figured it is worth a try. How in the world do those radial cylinder motors work, like on the Hellcat and Firecat? How can they hook 12 - 18 cylinders up, in the same verticcal plane, to one crankshaft? On the...

Muhammed - for a year or so I have held the (dubious) honor of having started the longest thread in tractorbynet history ("Hydraulics S-L-O-W in the cold"), some 22 pages if printed out. Surely this has now been eclipsed by that most famous of "why didn't I think of that" inventions, the...

Thanks to whoever posted last week about the history of agricultural equipment show - it was interesting. Tomorrow on the History Channel at 8 PM EASTERN time is a special on the timber trade. Interestingly, this is a part of the series called Suicide Missions which usually focuses on things...

Just got back from the local pumpkin farm with my family, including my 8 month old son. Most of it, like the pumpkins and the scarecrows and the halloween stuff, he thought was pretty ho hum, but every time one of the hayride tractors came rumbling by he would stop whatever he was doing, and...

In case anybody missed my long post on how NOT to use a rotary mower ("Up on two wheels...need new underwear"), it makes entertaining reading, so you might want to search for it. For those who read the thread, and especially those who offered help (lots of you), I have the problem fixed. The...

I've had my tiltmeter for about 2 weeks now, and thought I would pass along some thoughts, as I believe this little piece of plastic may very well be the most important piece of equipment I have yet purchased for my tractor. I bought online from R&B manufacturing, the first time I ever bought...

Way off tractors here, but there is a lot of experience on this board so I thought I would ask. Regarding the Jeep Wrangler (the one that looks like a "Jeep'), any experiencces good or bad relative to the available 4 cylinder (2.5 litre, 120 horsepower) vs. the 6 cylinder (4.0 litre, 180...

When I am spreading manure, I find that when the spreader is mostly empty there is some manure, maybe a half a wheelbarrow worth, stuck to the side walls. I usually stop the pto, get off, loosen the manure up with a shovel, them finish spreading. I figured out almost by accident that if I make...

Had a most unpleasant experience last night whilst using my rear mounted rotary mower. I went down a very short (30 foot) but steepish hill (maybe 15 - 18 degrees with a slight camber), and as the tractor went down and the mower was still on the level, the linkage that attatches to the top link...

Yesterday I was looking around at the rear end of my B1700 and I saw on both rear axles a ring of clean axle adjacent to each rear hub flange, whereas the rest of the axle was dirty with dust and dried mud. It appeared to me that the flanges were allowing about 1/4 inch of lateral play sliding...

Ran the rotary mower for 3 hours today nonstop, 80 degree weather. When I got done the engine temperature guage had not risen any higher than normal, but when I took off the pto I noticed that the U joint on the pto shaft was hot - not so hot you couldn't touch it, but hotter than warm. I then...

I am soon having 30 tons of red brick sand delivered to add to the footing of my indoor riding arena. Last time I had footing delivered I had just moved in, and didn't know I needed a tractor for anything, so I had the local farmer spread the stuff for me. Foolishly, I did not watch him do it...

Opinions please. Based primarily on advice offered through this board, I am going to get a rotary cutter this weekend, and I now need to decide how much and which one. To recap, I have a B1700, and I will be cutting 4 acres of strictly horse pasture, with grass only. The machine will never have...

Is it still dry in Texas? Today we had the most viscious downpours I think I have ever seen - must have dropped 4 inches of rain in an hour. Found a few MORE leaks in the barn roof ($$$$), but the hay should be great this year if it dries up at baling time. Hope you guys get some of this wet...

I don't really have anything to post about, but I , um, wanted to see what happens when I get to 100 posts....

Seems like there are a lot of Texas guys here, so I figured I would talk about my other favorite thing besides tractors, which is bicycles. Is Lance Armstrong a household word in Texas, or just among bikers? He is my hero, and my son's middle name is Armstrong in honor of Lance.

When doing any given task, how is it best to determine whether you should be in high range or low (B1700 HST)? There are certain things, like loader work, that I always do in low, but other less taxing work, I don't know. Is it as simple as "if the machine will do the job in high, use high" or...

Lets do the math. 365 registered users, 3.9 million views on the old forum. Thats about 100,000 clicks by each of us since the forum began . I think we all need help, I mean PROFESSIONAL help.

How do I access threads from the old forum? I may want to review, for example, an old thread on how to use a post hole digger, and don't know how to get there from here.

Newbie! Newbie! - well I never... Lets get this baby rolling boys 1) Mark - how about that synthetic vs petroleum thing, what do you think? 2) JimB in Michigan - my B1700 can kick @ss out of your TC18 - what do you think of that? 3) Bird - Much snow down your way this past winter? Fill me in on...

I am totally lost on this new forum. I guess I will have to hunt and peck for a while to figure it out. Any helpful hints, please let me know!