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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Wormwood" data-source="post: 136731" data-attributes="member: 25346">I bought an SVL97-2 a little over 2 years ago & I'm currently on my second set of bearings for the undercarriage. The Kubota has only 200 hours on it (mainly because I'm trying to baby it, because of these stupid bearings). I had all the bearings replaced $13,000.00 worth right before the warranty ran out. That was in February/March of this year. It's the end of July & now those bearings are starting to squeak, pop, & grind!?!! I have no idea what it going on but I quickly gather there's enough B$ to last me a lifetime, depending on who you ask they might tell you that the dirt/mud building up in the under carriage will quickly destroy your bearings but the guy right next to him say you can't use a pressure washer on the under carriage to clean because the water will get inside the bearings a destroy them!!! All things held aside I do have a Loftness disc mulcher which is very heavy but that wouldn't explain why my boogie wheel bearings going out & certainly wouldn't explain why my second set idler wheel bearings are popping & squeaking after only 20 hours of use??!? I can & will replace them but I have to figure out what the problem is so I don't have to do this again for a while.. This is ridiculous...****I realize this is my first post & forums are always a convenient to drop in & vent, but I try not to inject my opinion unless no-one else offers to give advice. Since this is my first track loader, I'm sort running blind. I own about 100 acres & it's a more than a full time job cutting back these hybrid pine trees the paper companies have engineered that grow as fast as kudzu... I hate genetic engineering & I wish I could hold these people/corporations liable for the damage they cause to my property.***Thanks,    Steve</blockquote>

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