Grinded gears on my b2320

[Jtryan]

Hi,
So my dad was using my b2320 and accidentally used the pto lever instead of gear(hst) lever and it grinded

Should I be worried about internal damage!?

 

[jeff9366]

No.

Kubota makes the toughest HST in the tractor business.

 

[gladehound]

For years people shifted non-synchro crash boxed on the move double clutching all over the place. a lot of light grinding happened here and there and those transmissions just kept going.

I was in the Philippines a few years back and our hired driver had a synchro out on one gear. In a 45 mile drive with hundreds of gear shifts I heard him grind it lightly several times. I asked how long the synchronizer has been out. He said about 100,000 kilometers - don't know if that tells you anything.

All that said, jam the lever in hard when it doesn't want to go and you can break something. If he just started the PTO with no load (no attachment) and incomplete clutch disengagement it probably didn't do any harm. If you had something hooked to the PTO might be a different story.

 

[Jtryan]

For years people shifted non-synchro crash boxed on the move double clutching all over the place. a lot of light grinding happened here and there and those transmissions just kept going.

I was in the Philippines a few years back and our hired driver had a synchro out on one gear. In a 45 mile drive with hundreds of gear shifts I heard him grind it lightly several times. I asked how long the synchronizer has been out. He said about 100,000 kilometers - don't know if that tells you anything.

All that said, jam the lever in hard when it doesn't want to go and you can break something. If he just started the PTO with no load (no attachment) and incomplete clutch disengagement it probably didn't do any harm. If you had something hooked to the PTO might be a different story.

He mistakenly use pto lever instead of hst lever.... I do have belly mower on tractor.
He didn't force it in.... as soon as it started grinding he pressed in clutch and i told him to put pto lever back in neutral position

 

[gladehound]

He mistakenly use pto lever instead of hst lever.... I do have belly mower on tractor.
He didn't force it in.... as soon as it started grinding he pressed in clutch and i told him to put pto lever back in neutral position

I think your fine. As long as it wasn't forced your fine. And if your PTO still works normally, your fine.

 

[gladehound]

I'll also add that my previous tractor has the PTO lever so close to my leg that I unknowingly bumped it into gear on several occasions without an attachment on the PTO. I wouldn't notice until I got off the tractor for something and I'd see the PTO shaft spinning. This must have happened at least a dozen times in the 8 years I owned that tractor and never had a single problem with it.

 

[repete]

This post makes me smile as I think about the number of times I ground the gears double clutching the 48 Dodge 1/2 ton pickup learning to drive. Never seemed to bother it.

 

[buickanddeere]

Hi,
So my dad was using my b2320 and accidentally used the pto lever instead of gear(hst) lever and it grinded

Should I be worried about internal damage!?

" Grinded" ??? Lets try " Ground".

 

[Jtryan]

" Grinded" ??? Lets try " Ground".

Ground? Maybe your right.... just doesn't sound right when you say it

But I think you got what I was trying to say....

 

[k0ua]

I'll also add that my previous tractor has the PTO lever so close to my leg that I unknowingly bumped it into gear on several occasions without an attachment on the PTO. I wouldn't notice until I got off the tractor for something and I'd see the PTO shaft spinning. This must have happened at least a dozen times in the 8 years I owned that tractor and never had a single problem with it.

I did that exact same thing on my old B7500. It never seemed to hurt anything.