I am not usually the type of guy who jumps right in with a tech question as their first post, but I am a little stuck atm!
I picked up a 2014 RTV-X1120D in July and have used it around the acreage all summer, but nothing major used shuttling the wife and I around planting saplings hauling water. The Kubota works perfectly fine for all of that.
I installed a KFI snow plow in the fall, as we live in a snowy part of Alberta I was looking forward to plowing the gravel drive. I had taken the Kubota out and plowed some dirt and leveled a few humps in the yard with the blade and all worked very well In the fall.
We got a decent snow fall over the last few days and was excited to use the plow in earnest today. the Kubota is stored in a heated garage at 5 degrees C, it started fine and I let it warm up for 5 minutes. Drove out in the yard and started plowing, the temp outside is -10 C. The Kubota ran fine for the first 10 minutes then started to stall. Not the motor the engine rpm remained the same, but the transmission started, pausing!
I would push the pedal down the rpm would build the Kubota would move a few inches less than half a tire rotation and stop then pause for 5 seconds them move forward a few inches and so on. In order to get the unit to drive constantly I have to plant the pedal to the floor and with the blade up I can only creep along at 7 kph. Almost like the brake was on, I did check the brake was Not on. It does this in hi and lo, 2wd and 4wd.
needless to say I’m a little disheartened at the moment, any suggestions on where to start looking ?
engine revs and idles fine, I am more leaning to a transmission issue, either related to flow due to heat or cold. Thoughts?
I picked up a 2014 RTV-X1120D in July and have used it around the acreage all summer, but nothing major used shuttling the wife and I around planting saplings hauling water. The Kubota works perfectly fine for all of that.
I installed a KFI snow plow in the fall, as we live in a snowy part of Alberta I was looking forward to plowing the gravel drive. I had taken the Kubota out and plowed some dirt and leveled a few humps in the yard with the blade and all worked very well In the fall.
We got a decent snow fall over the last few days and was excited to use the plow in earnest today. the Kubota is stored in a heated garage at 5 degrees C, it started fine and I let it warm up for 5 minutes. Drove out in the yard and started plowing, the temp outside is -10 C. The Kubota ran fine for the first 10 minutes then started to stall. Not the motor the engine rpm remained the same, but the transmission started, pausing!
I would push the pedal down the rpm would build the Kubota would move a few inches less than half a tire rotation and stop then pause for 5 seconds them move forward a few inches and so on. In order to get the unit to drive constantly I have to plant the pedal to the floor and with the blade up I can only creep along at 7 kph. Almost like the brake was on, I did check the brake was Not on. It does this in hi and lo, 2wd and 4wd.
needless to say I’m a little disheartened at the moment, any suggestions on where to start looking ?
engine revs and idles fine, I am more leaning to a transmission issue, either related to flow due to heat or cold. Thoughts?