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Okay I take it back on my weight. The manual says my Kubota B6200 weighs 1080 stripped. Add 400 for the FEL and 400 for each calcium load that's 1880. Add 40 pounds each for the extra wheels unloaded, that's 1960 pounds. Add 40 pounds for the full tank of deisel that's a cool 2000.

I think my 6 x 12 trailer is plenty enough for a 2000 pound load!

Trailer Size
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Replies 25 Post by Morgan Wright

I bought my new trailer Thursday. When the guy brought it out of the yard for me, guess what he pulled it out with? A B7200!

I checked out his B7200 and it was the same except the engine was 927 cc and the B6200 is only 855 cc. What's the B5200 engine?

These cc numbers are from memory only. I know these engines are small compared to the new Kubotas B series.

What year is my B6200
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Replies 9 Post by Morgan Wright

Today I finished turning my B6200 into a dual! I can't believe how much more stable it feels, knowing the tractor can go over stumps and into gopher holes and I never worry about tipping. It's like the wheels are anchored into the ground. The ride is so much more smooth. It's unbelievable.

Yes, all 4 rear wheels have calcium!!

BX22 Wheel spacers
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Replies 20 Post by Morgan Wright

It uses a 16 inch rim in the rear and the ag tires are 8 by 16 or 8.3 by 16, I've seen either one. If you want to replace them with turfs you can just buy automobile or SUV tires for it and save a ton of money. It's real easy to find 16 inch automobile tires in many widths and a lot cheaper, and turf tread is just like automobile tread.

The rims used on B6200 ag tires are the exact same rims they use on implements and trailers and even the front wheels of bigger tractors. It's a generic rim and there is no reason you have to buy artificially inflated tires (I mean the price is inflated not the tires. Well, the tires are too). Some of the L series Kubotas use the same rim for the front that the B6200 has for the rear. It's a very common generic rim.

However, turf rims for the B6200 are a lot wider than the ones you have so maybe if you want wide turfs (advised) you need new wider rims for the tractor.

B6200 turf tires
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Replies 8 Post by Morgan Wright

The good feeling I get when I drain out the filthy oil and put in new slippery oil, it's sort of the same feeling I get when I go to the bathroom and squeeze out the bad stuff, and go to the kitchen and replace it with a drink of clean water and eat new food.

Mobil 1
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Replies 12 Post by Morgan Wright

I have a B6200 also with manual tranny, and the same thing happens to me when I try to shift quickly into reverse or first. It grinds when you try to shift. There are ways to slip it into gear smoothly without grinding the gear box. After you drive it for a while you will learn how to shift with "mesh" instead of "mash."

1. Lower the engine speed before shifting. If you have the hand lever set at a constant high RMP, lower that to idle before shifting into reverse. It will mesh, not mash.

2. If you don't want to lower engine speed first, there is another way. Before you try to put it all the way into gear, just sort to bounce the lever a couple of times in that direction, and then when the gears stop spinning it will slip right into gear. I think when you have it running in 3rd or 2nd gear it gerts something spinning. Maybe a gear or something. You have to get that heavy thing to stop spinning before you can get the shift pinion to mesh instead of mash with the gear.

3. If you are just sitting with the clutch pedal up and you have had it in neutral at high RPM, you have to push the clutch pedal in and wait about 4 or 5 seconds before trying to shift. There is some sort of gear inside that has to stop spinning before you can shift.

If you are in a hurry and don't want to wait 5 seconds, what I do is push the cluth pedal in and sort of lightly apply pressure on the shift lever, and give it just enough pressure to stop the gear without really mashing. You hear the teeth hitting but not enough to hurt the gear. After a second or two you slow the gear down and can mesh instead of mash.

What I do now, to avoid hitting gear teeth at all, I push the clutch down, drop the engine speed to idle, slip in into gear, and bang the engine speed up again, all in one quick motion. Gear teeth never mash at low engine RPM.

B6200 tranny
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Replies 3 Post by Morgan Wright

Yes, dude. My B6200 has countless hours, it's 20 years old and performs as well as when it was new. I would not trust the 800 hours, those hour-ometers turn over at 1000 and the B6200's are all at least 20 years old, so yours might have 1800 hours or 2800 hours or 3000000800 hours. It doesn't matter, the engines last forever. Other things die sooner, like the hydraulic hoses, the seat, the paint job. But the enigine is a rock.

$5000 is a good price if it runs well and doesn't need work.

B6200
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Replies 5 Post by Morgan Wright

I have a B-6200 with front end loader, in Saratoga NY (near Albany). Is that good? I think it's like a B6100 or close to it. $6,000 takes it. my email is mwright at spa.net.

Kubota B7100 or B6100 in Connecticut
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Replies 5 Post by Morgan Wright

Everybody keeps saying to know your limits and stay within the limits, but nobody tells me what the limits are. It's impossible to tell when the tractor is going to tip over until after it tips over. There is no weight sensor on the tires saying "There's 2000 pounds on the left tires and 0 pounds on the right ones." You never find out that you are going to roll until you roll.

Sorry Guys I ve gone from orange to green
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Replies 33 Post by Morgan Wright

I have a huge engine oil leak in my B-6200, from the engine overflow tube. My tractor leaves a trail of oil everywhere I go. But every time I check the oil it's at least a quart too high. I thought maybe there was a crack in the engine block and coolant was getting in, but the coolant is still full to the top. So I figured that diesel fuel was getting into the block, but I smell the oil on the dipstick, and it doesn't smell like diesel. So I thought maybe I just overfilled the engine with oil at the last change, but that was 2 months ago and last month it wasn't leaking.

Where's all this extra oil coming from?

Oil leaking out the overflow tube
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Replies 31 Post by Morgan Wright

You don't have to bleed the fuel system if you remember to fill the filter bowl all the way to the top with diesel before you screw it back on. The reason to bleed the system is to get the air out that you let in when you screwed the filter bowl back on empty. Why waste your time? Just fill the bowl with diesel and screw it back on, and there's no air to bleed in the first place!!

Fuel Filter
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Replies 4 Post by Morgan Wright

First, the engine shut off knob became really hard to pull. Then it got worse until it was impossible to shut the engine off by pulling the knob so I tied a rope around the knob and then I could pull hard enough on the rope to shut the engine off. I could live with that.

Then, it got so it wouldn't START unless I opened the hood and moved the lever forward so it would open again. Still, I could live with that too.

But then, even with the rope it was not enough, now I can't shut the engine off unless I open the hood and pull back on the lever. What next, a steel rod to pull back and forth on the stupid shut off valve?

How do you replace the shut off valve? It seems impossible to even get to it under all that engine stuff. Or maybe just spray it with WD 40?

Anybody else ever have a stuck shut off valve?

Engone Stop Knob on Kubota
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Replies 7 Post by Morgan Wright

Thanks, my Kubota dealer makes up hoses in 20 minutes if they aren't too busy. That means, you bring it in at 8 AM, they can do it, any time after 9 AM they will say come pick it up tomorrow.

The bucket didn't drop Tom. The hose that blew was the one between the pump and the controller, and since the controller was already set in position and I was simply moving the tractor, the FEL didn't change or do anything when the hose blew, because all the ball valves were set in position. The load of dirt is still in the bucket and it's still high up in the air!

But if I should touch the controller now, I bet a lot of oil shoots out the bottom hose as the FEL drops!!

Rubber hydraulic hoses leaking
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Replies 19 Post by Morgan Wright

Steve, your smoking came from incomplete combustion of diesel fuel. Maybe there were carbon deposits in the valves or something, but they have burned through now. Sounds like promblem is solved.

I'm interested in learning about the B6000E, you say it's from the 1970's when Kubota first started selling tractors over here. How big is the engine (in cc's, it should be marked on the tractor). My B-6200 is a little 3 cylinder job with 855 cc's. It falls midway in size between the modern B-7500 (1001 cc's) and the B-7400 (741 cc's)

Kubota B6000E Smokie Exhaust
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Replies 19 Post by Morgan Wright

The first time my Kubota overheated from a clogged grill I looked around to see who was honking at me. There was nobody for miles around, I thought I was hearing things.

My boat does the same thing...the horn honks if it overheats. Very weird.

Kubota L4310 HST with Cab is regularly HOT
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Replies 15 Post by Morgan Wright

Jim on Timberridge, there is a difference in tire pressure for loaded tires than unloaded tires because if they are loaded 80% of the way with calcium, leaving air for expansion in only 20% of the volume, then when the temperature rises in the summer it will raise the tire pressure a lot more than if the tire were not loaded, because that little volume of air has to account for all the expansion of the calcium in the summer.

That's the reason they never load tires 100% of the way with calcium. What if you loaded the tires in the spring or fall (or worse, the winter), 100% of the way. What would happen in the summer when the calcium expanded from the temperature, and there is no air to take the compression? Water (calcium) doesn't compress, so in the summer the tires would blow out faster than Old Faithful. If they are loaded 80% the tire pressure would be a lot higher in the summer than if they were not loaded, so you adjust the pressure accordingly when the tires are loaded.

I think that's right. Not sure.

Which tires
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Replies 36 Post by Morgan Wright

In my first post on the top of this page, I said my rear wheel was a foot off the ground and the tractor was ready to tip. What happened was, I had a FEL full of gravel, about 500 pounds of it, and the slope was to the left, the FEL was about a foot off the ground and the tractor tipped until the loader hit ground. I shifted my body weight over towards the lifted tire and it went back to the ground again. But I was already in the spot where I wanted to dump the load anyway so I dumped it and all was well, except I was shook up a bit the whole rest of the day whenever my right wheel was high.

Wheel weights vs calcium
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Replies 41 Post by Morgan Wright

Hey Roy and Bill, calcium and magnesiom are BOTH metals!! They don't fill tires with calcium metal either, just the cloride. Calcium metal is soft, even softer than lead, you can cut it with a jack knife. You never see calcium metal because it's so reactive, it oxidizes quickly if exposed to air. When you put calcium metal in water it fizzes and turns into calcium hydroxide and hydrogen gas.

Magnesium is almost as reactive as calcium, but magnesium solutions are common, such as milk of magnesia and magnesium sulfate and magnesium cloride that you always find in hard water, it's one of the minerals in tonic water.

Calcium or Magnesium in the tires
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Replies 6 Post by Morgan Wright

Stick a penny in the fuse box.

:}-)

B5200 Electrical
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Replies 6 Post by Morgan Wright

Chains are incredibly strong. I saw a tug boat pull a 200 foot barge that must have weighed over 20,000 tons with a single chain. I had a guy get a 27,000 pound dump truck (empty weight) get stuck in the mud, and watched as another dump druck pulled him out with one 1/2 inch chain. Chains are very strong, you almost never see them break.

Tire chains for Kubotas
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Replies 35 Post by Morgan Wright