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Read articles →An owner doing his first 10-hour maintenance on a new Yanmar SA324 with YL210 loader, focused entirely on re-torquing the loader frame mount bolts, the spec, the wrench setup, the awkward access points, and a real-world finding that several bolts had actually moved. Useful if you're in the same early-ownership window and want to see exactly how this job plays out in practice. Covers nothing else.
Posted by the Visionary Trailblazin channel, appearing to be an owner-operator sharing hands-on experience from their own machine.
You check the torque on the bolts holding the loader frame mount to the tractor frame, using a torque wrench set between 70 and 90 foot-pounds, roughly 80 foot-pounds.
After the first 10 hours, then every 50 hours after that you check and re-torque those loader frame mount bolts.
A 17 millimeter socket, and you need an extension to reach some of the bolts, plus releasing the parking brake for three rear ones.
Yes, the owner found the rear loader arm bracket bolts on both sides had turned a bit, while the front four bolts had not moved at all.
