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Message: <blockquote data-quote="mchild" data-source="post: 57357" data-attributes="member: 7812"><p>I recently purchased a Bobcat T300 with about 4,400 hours on it. As part of the pre-purchase inspection we found and brought to the seller's attention that the left side drive control lever did not operate as smoothly as the right. We also noticed the left front idler was worn. Seller said the worn idler was causing it to stutter and possibly the linkage was slightly out of adjustment. The idler was replaced and the linkage adjusted. The drive control is better than it was, but the problem has not been fully resolved. Now that I have lived with it a little this is what I have found: there is no creep when both levers are in the neutral position and at full ground speed operation the levers seem to be in adjustment. In comparison to the operation of the right lever the left will not start track movement as immediately as the right lever. This is forward or backward and most noticeable when trying to make small, gentle movements. When the left lever is moved, it takes more lever movement to start the track moving and the track will not always continue moving at that lever position. The track will start and then stop and sometimes after a little pause the track will move some more, other times the track will not move more. This creates a stutter in the movement and often - when in work operation, the tendency is to move the lever more, which then causes much greater track movement than desired. Sometimes after that initial track movement and the track has paused, the lever has to be moved up to 3/4" more before additional track movement occurs and when the track does move it is the same start and stop or stutter. The stutter is not noticeable when the left lever is moved to nearly the full range of movement or when the loader is under way and only steering adjustments are being made by the levers. The poor operation of the left lever seems to be the same whether moving it forward or backward. Any help is greatly appreciated.</p></blockquote><p></p>

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