Live Oak

Yes, I believe the bolts are metric. I installed mine myself. It was not the easiest job but still far cheaper than paying the dealer to do it. I installed mine by myself. If I would have had an extra set of hands, it would have been much easier. One personal can install it but 2 makes the job MUCH easier.

gt9772c

I installed the ROPS on the Kubota L245 (1976). The instructions were not much help, but once you hold it up there, it was very obvious that it could only go on one way. Two of the 8 holes did not perfectly line up on the side so I had to slighly open up the hole 1/16 of an inch and then everything fit perfectly. It is a little tall though. They sent a lot of extra mounting parts (I assume to fit other models). Made my wife nervous to have all the extra parts, but the unit is on there beautifully and mounts very solidly. No worries. Great offer from Kubota. Glad I heard about it on this site. I got the whole thing with shipping for $128.

tpmintx

Bolts in the kit were wrong size. Hard to find Grade 8 12mm bolts in USA. Used Grade 5 bolts. Dealer had no problem selling this to me. Kubota covers their profit margin. Kubota nets out about 50 bucks for the kit. They are selling them cheap to avoid forward liability. I have steep hills, so would not drive tractor without ROPS on the hills.