Kn1ghtWolf
Active Member
Hi everyone,
looking to start repair on my 1997 Takeuchi TB025 this spring and want to have everything prepared. I have already done all of the oils and filters, all new seals in all cylinders excluding the push blade, a new water pump, new thermostat, and cleaned out and flushed the radiator. I am likely going to get the radiator re-cored when I find a local place that does it.
Hour meter is only at 2600 and the machine works fine other than what I think is excessive blow by on the engine and very sloppy pins and bushings on the bucket.
I am thinking of going ahead with a full rebuild kit for the engine from one of the sellers on ebay. It seems like there are many different kits or you can contact the seller to put together a more comprehensive list of what you need. Does anyone have experience ordering something like this? I'm thinking of contacting a seller just to make certain I get what I need but I am also skeptical as they are aftermarket from china.
On the pins and bushings I found 2 places, On Ebay I found one seller in the uk but shipping is $$$ and a place called "Anderson Equipment Company" but it looks like I would have to order each item by part number including bushings and seems kind of tedious but is likely the method I will go with. Any recommendations would be nice.
Also does anyone have the operators manual with a searchable PDF? I already have the service and part manuals, the service one isn't that great as it was only a scanned version so I can't just search out what I want.
Edit: one thing I forgot to ask was whether the newer models have the same bucket pin designs so I can order a new bucket from something like a tb125 without worrying if it matches.
thanks
looking to start repair on my 1997 Takeuchi TB025 this spring and want to have everything prepared. I have already done all of the oils and filters, all new seals in all cylinders excluding the push blade, a new water pump, new thermostat, and cleaned out and flushed the radiator. I am likely going to get the radiator re-cored when I find a local place that does it.
Hour meter is only at 2600 and the machine works fine other than what I think is excessive blow by on the engine and very sloppy pins and bushings on the bucket.
I am thinking of going ahead with a full rebuild kit for the engine from one of the sellers on ebay. It seems like there are many different kits or you can contact the seller to put together a more comprehensive list of what you need. Does anyone have experience ordering something like this? I'm thinking of contacting a seller just to make certain I get what I need but I am also skeptical as they are aftermarket from china.
On the pins and bushings I found 2 places, On Ebay I found one seller in the uk but shipping is $$$ and a place called "Anderson Equipment Company" but it looks like I would have to order each item by part number including bushings and seems kind of tedious but is likely the method I will go with. Any recommendations would be nice.
Also does anyone have the operators manual with a searchable PDF? I already have the service and part manuals, the service one isn't that great as it was only a scanned version so I can't just search out what I want.
Edit: one thing I forgot to ask was whether the newer models have the same bucket pin designs so I can order a new bucket from something like a tb125 without worrying if it matches.
thanks