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Nifty Fix For Kubota Front Wheels
Bob Strawhacker was driving his Kubota 9580 tractor down the road when the left front wheel and stub axle flew out about 6 ft. into the roadway. “We had to spend more than $1,700 on parts to repair it,” he says.
  Two years later, the same thing happened when the right front wheel and axle started to come off. “I decided to find the problem and make a change,” he says.  
  Upon removal and inspection, he discovered that only one snap ring secured the axle to the wheel. “Each time the wheel and axle fell off it was because the snap ring had come loose, even though the tractor had been in the shop for front bearings just a few years before,” he says.
  To solve the problem, he added a second snap ring 5/8 of an inch inside the original one and used a tapered bearing cone as a hardened spacer. “With the ends of the axle shaft previously center drilled, it was fairly easy to mount the shaft in the lathe and cut a new groove for the second snap ring that’s 1/8 in. thick by about 2 in. in diameter.
  “I now feel confident that our front wheels and axle will stay in place.  It’s certainly not a good feeling when they don’t,” notes Strawhacker.  
  Contact: FARM SHOW Followup, Bob Strawhacker, 20054 135th Ave., Mediapolis, Iowa 52637 (ph 319 985-2598; kstraw@mepotelco.net).


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2016 - Volume #40, Issue #3