Tires Rear Wheel Spacing

blin · Dec 20, 2014

Are there any drawbacks to leaving your rear wheels in the wide space set up, rather than the standard narrow?
I have a L4330 4WD with R4 tires.
My place is about 60% even grade, and 40% medium to steep grade.

MHarryE · Dec 20, 2014

Coverage by a tiller, rear blade. Not fitting in your garage/machine shed. Also bucket width if you are trying to dig a trench to bury a dead horse. General operation should be no problems other than the clearance ones like I mentioned. Bearings should all be sized for the widest width plus factor of safety.

FTG-05 · Dec 21, 2014

I have the same tractor and live on the top of a hill. When I had the local Kubota dealer widen it's stance to the widest, I asked the service manger if there were any downsides. The one he mentioned was that the rears would not follow the front tires exactly.

I haven't had any operational problems like bush-hogging or using the box blade. But I gotta admit: I haven't had to bury any horses yet!

It's made the tractor a lot more stable since I did it, so no complaints from me.

Good luck!

wmonroe · Dec 22, 2014

My place has some steep hills so when I bought the Kubota I had the dealer put the wheels at the max width, no issues in almost 400 hours. For a while I was considering some wheel spacers but that would put me over 6' wide and my bucket and majority of attachments are 6'. The ford 961 has power adjust wheels and is set at max width, about 7' 6", it is very stable on the hills even being a narrow front end.

jimainiac · Dec 23, 2014

When I bought my L3830 with Loaded R4's it seemed so much more stable than the previous smaller tractor with R1's, I was satisfied with it. When I bought a set of heavy duty studded ice chains I realized there wasn't enough room behind the wheels to the fenders. I had to swap the wheels side - for - side to get the maximum width, which was a good trick considering their weight. It gave me plenty of clearance for the chains, and increased the stability. We have a lot of hills, so I wouldn't think of ever changing them back. It put the tires closer to the edge of it's trailer, but it still fits on. And I used the backhoe to dig the hole to bury my horse.

blin · Jan 11, 2015

Anyone have any pictures of the back of their Kubota L series tractor with the wheels wide spaced?

TripleR · Jan 11, 2015

My L5030:

blin · Jan 11, 2015

Thanks for the pic TripleR. Are these Wheels wide spaced? They look close to the inside frame. I'm trying to see if mine are wide spaced, but they look about the same as yours. If they are spaced, how much additonal width did you get?

FTG-05 · Jan 11, 2015

I had mine spaced out as far as they would go by the local dealer.

Before:

After:

blin · Jan 12, 2015

I can really see it on yours FTH-05. I'm using the outside edge of the tail lights as a guide, and the center of your tires are further out by maybe 5". Mine, although I don't have a good pic of it right now looks about centered with the outside edge of the light. That's good news for me.