Has anybody seen, or know of, any internal failures occurring in the front axle final drive bevel/planetary units of an M110GX or similar Kubota?
Tractor is within extended warranty period and has < 2k hours.
Dealer's preliminary judgement is that they do not know of any known failures in this area with this series. Dealer states overloading has caused the failure and is therefore not covered under Kubota's extended warranty; however they did not state whether the overload failure was "weight" or "torque" overloading, or which part failed first, or how they arrived at their judgement of it being an operator error.
The owner is concerned, and we will be looking further into the cause.
Step-1 is, did an operator "weight" overload it? How? The loader is Kubota approved and dealer fitted and has accumulator shock protection. The owner has purchased 5 Kubotas' from new, 3 of them are M series, 2 of those are GX, and he is happy with them all, the only failure until this was a PTO-brake in the oldest M (a well known failure area), which was updated to the latest design with no further trouble.
Step-2 is, did an operator "torque" overload it? How? It has a torque-limiting clutch.
Step-3 has there been other front bevel/planetary area failures in this series? That's why I am here on this Forum!
Tractor is within extended warranty period and has < 2k hours.
Dealer's preliminary judgement is that they do not know of any known failures in this area with this series. Dealer states overloading has caused the failure and is therefore not covered under Kubota's extended warranty; however they did not state whether the overload failure was "weight" or "torque" overloading, or which part failed first, or how they arrived at their judgement of it being an operator error.
The owner is concerned, and we will be looking further into the cause.
Step-1 is, did an operator "weight" overload it? How? The loader is Kubota approved and dealer fitted and has accumulator shock protection. The owner has purchased 5 Kubotas' from new, 3 of them are M series, 2 of those are GX, and he is happy with them all, the only failure until this was a PTO-brake in the oldest M (a well known failure area), which was updated to the latest design with no further trouble.
Step-2 is, did an operator "torque" overload it? How? It has a torque-limiting clutch.
Step-3 has there been other front bevel/planetary area failures in this series? That's why I am here on this Forum!