REPLY FROM KUBOTA CONCERNING 50 HOUR FLUID CHANGES

[JOHNTHOMAS]

Stange, I have a BX2350 turf tires and the left front has a slow leak. I finally got tired of it and slimed it a couple of weeks ago. As of yet I don't know if that helped or not. I also got my manual from the old stack, that says change the tranny fluid at 50 hours. I don't buy into John Thomas theory, but I guessing that they have a problem area on the rims.

Which theory, I have so many? Bad stack rim/tire theory or following company recommendation theory?

 

[wawajake]

This is my theory, (slightly altered from John Thomas)

A few years ago in the Kubota manufacturing plant, there was this cute secretary that had been given the job of making the maintenance schedules for the Kubota BX line.
She was cutting and pasting columns in her charts when the boss interrupted her to get him some more coffee pronto ! She went around the corner to the lunchroom to get some more, only to find that coffee pot empty and burning on the element so much so that just then it popped the fuse and the office lights went out. So she figured she would go downstairs and get some coffee from the Kubota assembly line lunchroom. She was walking past the front wheel line when her skirt distracted the machinist who was setting the tolerances for machining the next batch of front rims. Unfortunately the machinist did not double check his tolerances and the next batch of 500 rims was made and later added to the partial pallets of good rims in the warehouse.
The secretary managed to get that coffee and got back to the office to find that when the fuse blew, her computer went off too, without saving, and she never did get around to fixing that spreadsheet of maintenance schedules.

So we can blame:
1. the boss for not getting his own coffee
2. the machinist for stealing coffee from upstairs and being a leg man
3. the electrician for putting the computer on same circuit as coffee pot
4. the computer dept because they didnt install auto backup in her computer

either way it is a mans fault probably

 

[JOHNTHOMAS]

This is my theory, (slightly altered from John Thomas)

A few years ago in the Kubota manufacturing plant, there was this cute secretary that had been given the job of making the maintenance schedules for the Kubota BX line.
She was cutting and pasting columns in her charts when the boss interrupted her to get him some more coffee pronto ! She went around the corner to the lunchroom to get some more, only to find that coffee pot empty and burning on the element so much so that just then it popped the fuse and the office lights went out. So she figured she would go downstairs and get some coffee from the Kubota assembly line lunchroom. She was walking past the front wheel line when her skirt distracted the machinist who was setting the tolerances for machining the next batch of front rims. Unfortunately the machinist did not double check his tolerances and the next batch of 500 rims was made and later added to the partial pallets of good rims in the warehouse.
The secretary managed to get that coffee and got back to the office to find that when the fuse blew, her computer went off too, without saving, and she never did get around to fixing that spreadsheet of maintenance schedules.

So we can blame:
1. the boss for not getting his own coffee
2. the machinist for stealing coffee from upstairs and being a leg man
3. the electrician for putting the computer on same circuit as coffee pot
4. the computer dept because they didnt install auto backup in her computer

either way it is a mans fault probably

Your theory looks good except for one flaw. There is only one bad BX front rim/tire so some way they have to be in a stack by them selves and placed on one side of the assembly line. I think with a little work you can get this part worked out.

 

[LostInTheWoods]

At the risk of being flamed for adding to a post that A) has been quiet for a couple weeks, B) has strayed from whatever the original topic might have been, and C) not being able to personally add any conspiracy theory as to WHY this problem exists , the question was asked about leaking BX tires... I've had the same problem with a slow leak of the right front R4 since day one (about nine months, now).

Never thought much about it until this forum. Now it seems pretty obvious there must have been a second shooter, er, machinist on the grassy knoll....

I'm not sure which bugs me more. The slow leak that I have to refill every couple of weeks, or the fact that JOHNTHOMAS' theory makes a lot of sense. :laughing:

 

[keyman1808]

Yup join the club right side leaking R4. Been like that for 2 years. Been much better since being slimmed.

 

[charlz]

Yup join the club right side leaking R4. Been like that for 2 years. Been much better since being slimmed.

Hmmmm but are you right or left handed? Seems most people report problems with the left front.

My 33 year old B7100 has a leaky left front ag tire and I am right handed. Could it be that you turn tighter to the side opposite your dominant hand and that is causing issues with tires slipping on the bead or somesuch? :confused2:


:laughing:

 

[keyman1808]

I'm a righty.

 

[samofsweden]

Yepp, my 2007 BX24, front right side R4 tire leaks... And the little BX lives in Sweden This thread are very funny I thought I had a broken tire but it seams to be in the gens...
/ Sam by the aircompressor

 

[orezok]

Hmmmm but are you right or left handed? Seems most people report problems with the left front.
:laughing:

I think it's clear that the torque effect of the engine is lifting the left front enough to allow some additional slippage. When the left front drops down the impact is causing (by my computers calculation) a loss of 26 molecules of air each time.

There you go - problem solved! :confused2:

 

[keyman1808]

Now we have the answer. Good thing too I was jsut heading our to buy some high quality air for the tire. Thought it was just cheap inferior air that was causing all my problems