No Brakes!
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BXinNH
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Try this....
If you've left the parking brake on and now you're thinking you need new brakes, READ ON!
Yup, you just ate a lot (but not all) of your brakes. If the pedal goes to the floor, this procedure will let you put off spending big bucks for quite a while.
1. Remove the right rear tire.
2. Locate the brake pedal return spring to the rear of the chassis.
3. Release the return spring from the rear of the chassis and set it aside.
4. Locate the arm that engages the brake cam. The front of the spring was attached to it. (It barely rises above the tractor frame...)
5. Remove the cotter pin from the arm so that the rear brake turnbuckle assembly is free to rotate.
6. Shorten the turnbuckle by rotating the rear portion of the turnbuckle assembly until the threads just bottom out.
7. Reinstall the turnbuckle pin into the brake cam lever.
8. Reinstall the pin securing the turnbuckle pin to the brake cam lever.
9. Reinstall the brake return spring.
10. Reinstall the right rear tire.
You now have brakes again!
If you're wondering where the brakes went, they are now in your hydraulic fluid, so it might be a good time to change the fluid and filters....
There is SOOOOOO much missing from the Kubota WSM it's not funny...
Last edited by ayelvington; 07-21-2011 at 01:14 PM. Reason: Forgot to put the tire back on!
This was a shameless copy and paste from an old thread that I remembered. Hope it helps.
Matt.
If you've left the parking brake on and now you're thinking you need new brakes, READ ON!
Yup, you just ate a lot (but not all) of your brakes. If the pedal goes to the floor, this procedure will let you put off spending big bucks for quite a while.
1. Remove the right rear tire.
2. Locate the brake pedal return spring to the rear of the chassis.
3. Release the return spring from the rear of the chassis and set it aside.
4. Locate the arm that engages the brake cam. The front of the spring was attached to it. (It barely rises above the tractor frame...)
5. Remove the cotter pin from the arm so that the rear brake turnbuckle assembly is free to rotate.
6. Shorten the turnbuckle by rotating the rear portion of the turnbuckle assembly until the threads just bottom out.
7. Reinstall the turnbuckle pin into the brake cam lever.
8. Reinstall the pin securing the turnbuckle pin to the brake cam lever.
9. Reinstall the brake return spring.
10. Reinstall the right rear tire.
You now have brakes again!
If you're wondering where the brakes went, they are now in your hydraulic fluid, so it might be a good time to change the fluid and filters....
There is SOOOOOO much missing from the Kubota WSM it's not funny...
Last edited by ayelvington; 07-21-2011 at 01:14 PM. Reason: Forgot to put the tire back on!
This was a shameless copy and paste from an old thread that I remembered. Hope it helps.
Matt.