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Utility Vehicles UTV/ATV
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Well said Frank.

It's funny how friendships develop in the virtual world, but they do and they are no less important than our physical friends.

All the best to everyone on TractorPoint and may your Thanksgiving be blessed.

Happy Thanksgiving
Everything and Anything
Replies 12 Post by kwschumm

The solution is that Firefox history has to be kept for at least one day for this feature to work. Setting the history to one day fixed it. I had turned history off awhile back for reasons I don't recall and forgot to turn it back on.

Dimming of read messages not working
Website Operations Howto
Replies 13 Post by kwschumm

Plastic where? If you're talking body panels I'd much rather have plastic, it holds up far better around here than metal panels.

BX25
Kubota Tractors
Replies 13 Post by kwschumm

Here's a brief article on Ford's plans for laser ignition.

Laser ignition engines
Just For Fun Off Topic
Replies 4 Post by kwschumm

It will be interesting to see how it plays out with Mahindra.

Ford is #1 in truck sales but bureaucracies often miss the obvious. It's been my experience that marketing usually recommends exactly what management wants to hear. After all, in today's corporate America keeping one's job is all about risk avoidance.

New Ford Ranger but no diesel for the US
Pickup Trucks and Trailers
Replies 7 Post by kwschumm

I only use our tractor in the winter for snow. Some years we don't get any snow and I've never had a problem just leaving the tank full with a fuel preservative and anti-gel diesel fuel treatment with biocide (I think that's what it's called). Every month or so it is started and run at a fast idle for a half hour to keep it loose and lubed and the battery charged.

Winter Storage of Diesel Engine
Yanmar Tractors
Replies 3 Post by kwschumm

[QUOTE=racerellis;166929] Hello I believe THE NAPA part # is 2-686 and it is called a balljoint 1/4 threads?Hope this helps :) [/QUOTE]

Thanks. I ended up getting a NAPA ball joint and I think that was the part number but it came with both the ball and socket attached as one assembly so I had to do some minor fabrication to make it work. The doohickey is just a clip that slides over the ball/socket so the ball won't come out. The new ball joint makes for a much better assembly and it's sealed from water which caused the original joint to fail.

What is this linkage doohickey called
Tractor Projects
Replies 13 Post by kwschumm

[QUOTE=DRankin;166888] Yup.... a day late and a dolar short.....And I messed up this whole thread. I double checked and found out what I really put in the fuel tank was Chevron Pro-Gard with Techron. Pro-gard is a fuel injector cleaner. [/QUOTE]

Hey, at least you're man enough to admit the mistake. That helps everyone. Thanks for posting back.

Gas additives Kubota Mower a cautionary tale
Parts and Repair
Replies 14 Post by kwschumm

[QUOTE=auerbach;166882] I haven't been so misinformed since "After we're married, dear, any time you want." [/QUOTE]

LOL, there 'ya go. You shouldn't have showed her that tube of dielectric grease after the ceremony.

Dielectric antioxidant grease
Shop Tools
Replies 10 Post by kwschumm

Could be seat safety switch. If you lift up the seat there might be a switch under there that you can jumper across to see if it helps. If that machine has an electric pto clutch (not a pedal operated clutch) then shut that off before trying to start it.

kubota would start any ideas to troubleshoot problem
Kubota Tractors
Replies 10 Post by kwschumm

Understood, and thanks for posting back. All that lawyer mandated crap makes these machines much more complex than they need to be.

JD 4300 dies when shifting forward or reverse
John Deere Tractors
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A big THANK YOU to all veterans for your service to your country. We owe our freedoms to you and I pray that the rest of us will "man up" and do what is required to preserve them.

Thank You Veterans
Just For Fun Off Topic
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[QUOTE=hardwood;166770] Hey, thanks for the concern. Just a massive computer crash put me out of business. Number three son was here today to get things going again. Things are a bit temporary for now till he gets the parts he needs to go full blast again. [/QUOTE]

Welcome back. It looks like I jumped the gun a bit but it sure seemed you were gone longer than nine or ten days. Glad there's nothing to report :)

Anyone heard from Frank hardwood
Just For Fun Off Topic
Replies 8 Post by kwschumm

It seems pretty unlikely that the pump coincidentally crapped out during a filter and fluid change unless relatively big chunks of debris somehow got into the system. Was the filter/fluid change done as a routine service or because you were experiencing problems? Anything unusual about the old filter when you pulled it out? (like was it in pieces?)<br>
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Did you fully cycle the hydraulics a few times after the change to purge air from the system?<br>

tc29 hydraulics are weak help
New Holland Tractors
Replies 8 Post by kwschumm

EW, was this you?

How not to operate a forklift
Just For Fun Off Topic
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To follow up on this, I ended up finding a similar rebuilt Zenith carburetor from carbsonly dot com online for $275 with core exchange. Carlos there was very helpful in finding a match that had an electric throttle controller. He removed the electric throttle and shipped it to me and I was to swap the throttle shaft over from the old carb. Unfortunately, the old throttle shaft was so badly worn it could not be used so Carlos searched and found a new shaft and sent it to me gratis. A very helpful guy and highly recommended. Now the chipper runs better than it ever has. It has a design flaw where any rainwater is funneled through the engine cover right onto the carb, which explains why the old one was so badly corroded. I'll have to do a mod to fix that.

The Weber carb was a match from the standpoint of mounting and air horn but the linkage was on the wrong side and it would have taken a lot of fabrication to get it connected to the mechanical governor so that will have to get sold on eBay.

Ridiculous carb pricing from EC distribution
Parts and Repair
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A pop-up would be fine. It seems about half the time I post and reread the message it needs to be fixed or have something added so a preview would be really nice. But I can live without if it's a lot of work.

Requested feature message preview
Website Operations Howto
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When a new message is being posted the browser tab label (firefox in my case) displays the text "Registerd User of the CTB" where Registered is misspelled. It's been this way for a long time but nobody seems to have mentioned it before.

Registerd misspelling
Website Operations Howto
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[QUOTE=yooperpete;166534] Seems that in today's high-tech world, it would be cheaper and less complicated to mount a couple of rear facing cameras with monitors up front. [/QUOTE]

I've been wanting to mount a camera on the front to help aim the pallet forks. That would be pretty nice, but it would have to be ruggedized.

Hydraulic Power Equivalent
John Deere Tractors
Replies 12 Post by kwschumm