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Small oil leak
Hi everyone,
This is my first post to the forum, so Hello! I've been a lurker for the past couple of years, and am finally ready to buy a tractor and join the ranks of you fine gentlemen. Thank you to everyone for making this forum such a welcoming, helpful place on the web.
I have a couple acres of mostly untamed, un-landscaped property. I need a tractor for moving rocks, digging trenches, plowing snow, moving firewood, dragging stuff around, and possibly for digging the footing for my future barn. I'm leaning pretty heavily toward an older Kubota because from all I've read they are reliable workhorses.
There is someone locally selling a B5100 which is pretty small at only 13HP. The loader is only a bit larger than a big wheelbarrow. It's a 4WD with around 900 hours. It includes a snow plow and a brand new (never used, one month old) york rake. New rear tires. Asking 5000, but I got the feeling he'd go 500 lower. My main concern is that there seems to be a slow oil leak coming from somewhere under the hood (I know, very specific). There was a small oil drop formed on the bottom of the front diff. I rubbed it off when I first started looking, and it had reformed less than an hour later. There may also have been some oil sitting up near the valve cover. I've attached a few pictures. Excuse the glare. Also, the hydraulic cylinders on the loader showed a very small amount of oil leaking past. Is this normal? I'm sure these are very basic questions. For all I know, this may all be normal tractor stuff. If not, is the oil a deal breaker?
Do you think the B5100 is too small for what I mentioned above? Does anyone have experience with putting a backhoe (or is it even possible) on a machine this small? And would it be very useful? Should I keep looking for something larger or newer?
Thank you very much for all the help! I really appreciate it.
Hi everyone,
This is my first post to the forum, so Hello! I've been a lurker for the past couple of years, and am finally ready to buy a tractor and join the ranks of you fine gentlemen. Thank you to everyone for making this forum such a welcoming, helpful place on the web.
I have a couple acres of mostly untamed, un-landscaped property. I need a tractor for moving rocks, digging trenches, plowing snow, moving firewood, dragging stuff around, and possibly for digging the footing for my future barn. I'm leaning pretty heavily toward an older Kubota because from all I've read they are reliable workhorses.
There is someone locally selling a B5100 which is pretty small at only 13HP. The loader is only a bit larger than a big wheelbarrow. It's a 4WD with around 900 hours. It includes a snow plow and a brand new (never used, one month old) york rake. New rear tires. Asking 5000, but I got the feeling he'd go 500 lower. My main concern is that there seems to be a slow oil leak coming from somewhere under the hood (I know, very specific). There was a small oil drop formed on the bottom of the front diff. I rubbed it off when I first started looking, and it had reformed less than an hour later. There may also have been some oil sitting up near the valve cover. I've attached a few pictures. Excuse the glare. Also, the hydraulic cylinders on the loader showed a very small amount of oil leaking past. Is this normal? I'm sure these are very basic questions. For all I know, this may all be normal tractor stuff. If not, is the oil a deal breaker?
Do you think the B5100 is too small for what I mentioned above? Does anyone have experience with putting a backhoe (or is it even possible) on a machine this small? And would it be very useful? Should I keep looking for something larger or newer?
Thank you very much for all the help! I really appreciate it.
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