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Started by petefrom bearswamp, December 12, 2021, 08:45:38 AM

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petefrom bearswamp

My M8540 Kubota is now 14 years old, nearly 1900 hrs of sometimes hard duty.
Fired it up this past Thursday and noticed a slight noise coming from the front of the engine.
Be of the ignore it and perhaps it will go away school of thought, I finished my chores and by then it was really talking to me.
Sure enough when I popped the hood the fan was wobbling like mad.
Called my Kubota dealer and the pump was in stock but not the gasket.
Wife's cousin worked there as a mechanic for 25 years and is now retired, started a new career working on machinery for a couple of the larger dairy operations here and agreed to replace the pump for me.
Other than a couple of issues when under warranty, this is the first problem with it.
Cant say enough good about my experience with Kubota stuff.
Kubota 8540 tractor, FEL bucket and forks, Farmi winch
Kubota 900 RTV
Polaris 570 Sportsman ATV
3 Huskies 1 gas Echo 1 cordless Echo vintage Homelite super xl12
57 acres of woodland

firefighter ontheside

That sounds like a quick fix.  I'm glad it wasn't anything worse.  My kubota has more than 1600 hours, but I don't know how many as the meter hasn't worked since I got it.  I love my kubota.
Woodmizer LT15
Kubota Grand L4200
Stihl 025, MS261 and MS362
2017 F350 Diesel 4WD
Kawasaki Mule 4010
1998 Dodge 3500 Flatbed

Magicman

All that I had to do was replace the tachometer cable on mine.
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mike_belben

  50 yr old kubota has a noisy bearing in the trans requiring a split.  30 yr old dozer has a loud water pump and a milky final, 40 yr old bobcat bent a valve and needs a wheel motor overhauled.  

when you live hand to mouth you just try to keep each one alive as long as possible.  there are spurts where they give no trouble at all and spurts where they are nothing but. its hard to be mad at a machine that has pushed over 200 triaxle loads for you or unloaded a dozen semi trailers, even when it needs your attention.  
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Don P

There's a Kubota engine in the little skid steer, 30, uhh closer to 40 years old and I work it like the big one I wish it was. Its holding up well but the clock says its still pretty new, only 641 hours ever since I've had it.

Resonator

1300+ hours on my MX5800, very few issues since new, (all of them caused by owner use). I've heard some of the Kubota industrial engines have run into the 30,000+ hour range. Got mine with a plug in block heater, though had to use it very little. Give it some glow (plug) and it goes, EVERY time. Not like my old John Deere where you had to keep the "ether bunny" handy at all times.
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SwampDonkey

Have had plenty of issues here, not with the tractor, but with the dealer. You have to have a dealer that is competent or it goes down hill from day one. The first sign your in trouble is having hoses hooked up wrong for the attachments, seat belts on the machine backwards, then a back hoe plagued with hydraulic issues with hardly any hrs. And a company that don't give a darn or they wouldn't give a dealership to such boneheads. It ain't all rosie, you can find lots of people who don't think so. ;D I've had to replace hydraulic hose, the dealer we got it from 'might' order it, probably be wrong one. But I can go in the opposite direction to another dealer and they will make a new one on the spot, from better than original hose. Part ordered from Kabota $80, local made and better $20 bucks. ::)

We have a 30 year old kabota lawnmower with diesel that still works fine. What goes is the deck, long before the tractor. But my brother has replaced bearings and welded up here and there to keep it in service. ;D

I've got a Craftsman that I mow over 2 acres of lawn with a 54" Husqvarna deck that I've had 0 issues with for 12 years. Same belt on the deck. I replace blades, this spring is due for another set now that the new lawn is smoothed over with the old blades. ;D :D
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2020 Polaris Ranger 570 to forward firewood, Husqvarna 555 XT Pro, Stihl FS560 clearing saw and continuously thinning my ground, on the side. Grow them trees. (((o)))

petefrom bearswamp

wife's cousin, retired mechanic from the Kubota/IH  dealer was here last evening.
Hour and a half later new pump on, all is well.
asked him how much, he said $20, I gave him $50.
Would have cost well north of $200 for labor and transportation if the dealer had done it.
New pump, gasket and fan belt was $239
If this one lasts 14 yrs, Ill b 98 when it fails again.

Kubota 8540 tractor, FEL bucket and forks, Farmi winch
Kubota 900 RTV
Polaris 570 Sportsman ATV
3 Huskies 1 gas Echo 1 cordless Echo vintage Homelite super xl12
57 acres of woodland

gspren

Quote from: petefrom bearswamp on December 15, 2021, 08:28:18 AM
If this one lasts 14 yrs, Ill b 98 when it fails again.
So when that happens are you fixing it again or buying new?
Stihl 041, 044 & 261, Kubota 400 RTV, Kubota BX 2670, Ferris Zero turn

charles mann

My 2018 kubota 7060 with around 300hrs at the time, dropped the #1 injector offline and $1600 later, its better than it was. Also had some rodent visitors that chewed the wiring harness at #2 injector. Evidently, no repair criteria or new pin and connector availability and a new harness is $1400. I asked the svc manager to think outside the box and repair the harness with a soldered splice. 
Its like pulling teeth out of a hungry lion when dealing with dealerships. A logical person could assume a 4x return customer at the same dealership, they'd go out of their way to help the customer. I guess those days are gone. 
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mike_belben

Praise The Lord

chevytaHOE5674

When they work or have simple problems they are good machines. But have more serious issues and the parts availability and knowledge base isn't the best. Also their engineering is backwards to common logic most of the times. Have an MX125 Kubota to work on that won't engage the MFWD, after looking thru the service manual the job will take twice as long to service as a comparable green, red or blue machine.

farmfromkansas

This consolidation of dealers is really getting to be a pain.  One company owns many dealerships, and you can't drive far enough to get out of their area.  And when you do, it is another consolidated dealership, and they all know it. There is one small family owned machine dealer, only a hay equipment  and short line dealer, but they have good mechanics.  That is where I am going with my equipment.
Most everything I enjoy doing turns out to be work

SwampDonkey

Typically one or two shops in the consolidation have the knowledge, the rest do more damage then they fix. They all don't hire the brightest and many were fired elsewhere, so you're not getting the cream of the crop. And Kabota don't give a darn, they want a sale. Just try to reach them with a complaint, good luck!! Also, your machine is on hold for months with them doing nothing to resolve an issue. Been through it, so not fake news. :D

Yep, I go to a shop that is not a consolidation also. They know how to make hydraulic hose and do in minutes. And better than original, I will add.
"No amount of belief makes something a fact." James Randi

1 Thessalonians 5:21

2020 Polaris Ranger 570 to forward firewood, Husqvarna 555 XT Pro, Stihl FS560 clearing saw and continuously thinning my ground, on the side. Grow them trees. (((o)))

Ed_K

 I've been working with Pete's tire Barn for 22 yrs buying forestry tires getting flats fixed. The other day I ripped a side wall on Rita's subaru and stopped to get another tire. The manager I worked with for yrs retired and this guy whose been there awhile tells me I have to buy 4 new tires because the new tire is 2mm taller:(. 
Ed K

petefrom bearswamp

Ed_K sound like horse hockey to me.
Kubota 8540 tractor, FEL bucket and forks, Farmi winch
Kubota 900 RTV
Polaris 570 Sportsman ATV
3 Huskies 1 gas Echo 1 cordless Echo vintage Homelite super xl12
57 acres of woodland

firefighter ontheside

Quote from: Ed_K on December 31, 2021, 11:55:40 AM
I've been working with Pete's tire Barn for 22 yrs buying forestry tires getting flats fixed. The other day I ripped a side wall on Rita's subaru and stopped to get another tire. The manager I worked with for yrs retired and this guy whose been there awhile tells me I have to buy 4 new tires because the new tire is 2mm taller:(.
I would think that is Subarus recommendation due to the AWD.  We always buy sets of 4 for our subarus.  We own two foresters and had another forester before these.  In total we have put 450,000 miles on our foresters.
Woodmizer LT15
Kubota Grand L4200
Stihl 025, MS261 and MS362
2017 F350 Diesel 4WD
Kawasaki Mule 4010
1998 Dodge 3500 Flatbed

Ed_K

 Rita e-mail the guy we bought the car, nice salesman only took us a little  ;D . He sent an e-mail from subaru, that read anything over 2 30th and the awd will be out requiring an alinement. Oh'well it was icy when I tried to turn a corner and didn't turn the skid control button off  :(  >:(. Reading the book it seems backward to me.
Ed K

Ianab

Keep the 1/2 worn tires and get them rotated back on as the new ones wear down?  After a couple of tire rotations you should have 7 worn ones, and will have gotten full mileage from them all. 
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