Excellent video for me. I just got the word that the BX23S i ordered will be delivered next Friday. Seeing your video on the snowblower will make me pay closer attention to it now. Greatly appreciate your time making videos like this. 😊
Greeting fellow Maritimer. I have had two BX's since 2017 and I rolled my frst over on its left side, and she screamed, roared and belched black smoke like an dying orange dinosaur. I did not know that I could have truned the engine off instaead of feeling helpless as it screamed for five + minutes. Mind you she was on her left side and I question whether I could have opened the hood and accessed that lever. Both of my BX's didn't have the hydraulic hoses at the back of the tractor tightened properly at the factory or the precheck from the dealer and leaked when I was using the backhoe. The BX230s is an amazing little rig and I am verry happy with it. My biggest frustation now is curing the water in fuel supply issue I have been struggling with for the past several months. Enjoyed the video.
Thanks Larry! FYI I did have another problem recently with a leaky up/down cylinder for the snow blower. As an electrical engineer I can tell you I hate hydraulics! I prefer electrics any day I never have issues with leaking electricity lol.
Yeah when I edited the video it was only a very low background music but for some reason when I exported it to RU-vid it ended up much much louder...I'll have to test the sound level next time before making it public. Thank for the feedback!
Hi Jack, My BX25d had the same leak on the steering rod. Fixed twice under warranty (in shop for over 7 weeks combined for a simple fix.) My tractor is now almost 5 years old and I will replace the seal myself this summer. Very frustrating. I learned to park the tire on a rubber mat.
Wow 7 weeks is ridiculous for that repair, doesn't sound like a good dealer, my dealer did mine in a couple days. Leaks are frustrating for sure...I'm an electrical guys so I would love to see everything electric some day to do away with leaks but hydraulics still have their applications for sure until then.
When you roll a machine the engine will run on its own oil. You can turn off the key and it will shutoff the fuel but the oil will get sucked past the rings and use the oil as fuel until the engine blows up. Opening the hood and pulling the stop lever will not do anything but put you in harms way when the rod comes out of the block
Thanks for the explanation. I was just repeating what the Kubota maintenance guy told me and he did mention that one of the guys who rolled it was able to stop the engine that way. Are you a Kubota mechanic by any chance?
How much did they cost? That's what I need for the woods lol. The main reason I bought the spare tire is because I tore a large chunk out of it by driving too close to a stump. Cheers!
Really? That sucks...weird since it's their most popular product. At least it's just a hose, you should be able to have one made up at a specialized supplier. Cheers!
I bought one about 3 years ago and I use it and I put the PTO to work I put all the tailor over there and the PTO just snap off in the dealer don't want to fix it and I sold it for almost no money that's a piece of s*** tractor no power you don't need that garbage around the house
Sorry to hear about you having some really bad luck, not sure why the dealer wouldn't fix that, was it new? If you got it used than that's a different issue. Metal parts can always have defects in them and manufacturers usually fix that sort of thing if you got it new. It sounds more like a bad dealer. I put my PTO to the test chipping wood and I can stall the tractor, its rock solid! Jack
@@jeffherron4701 Make sure to check out my video of where I repaired it so you don't make the same stupid mistake as me lol. I tore the heck out of that thing by throwing a piece of "apparently" rotten wood in the mulcher part...the middle wasn't rotten at all.
I bought the tire earlier because I had a big crack in it near the rim from a tree stump and thought that was the source of the leak. LOL I would have used a tire plug if had one or could have bought one but I was in an @$%$^% covid quarantine at the time. Anyway the gorilla glue is still holding 8 months later...good stuff. Cheers!
