Brand New Kubota won’t run
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whitetiger
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Kubota tech..BX2370, RCK60, B7100HST, RTV900 w plow, Ford 1100 FWA
All of the new tractors that come crated are assembled enough that they can be ran on the skid. They come full of fluid, sometimes the front axle is a little low though.
A lot of the tractors come assembled with the loader installed, you just drive them off of the truck.
My 7060 came assembled with the fittings marked and I still had a fitting I had to tighten at about 10 hours. It never leaked until I got a good load on it and then it was spraying on the hood. It's just one of those things that you need to keep an eye out for.
Sometimes those "check" marks don't mean much.
As a hobby, I restore vintage ham radio gear and Hallicrafters of Chicago was one of the biggest U.S. manufacturers. Their "crowning achievement" was the SX-88 shortwave receiver introduced in 1954 and sold for a couple of years. Its 1954 price was $595, equivalent to about $7,000 today so it wasn't cheap but the design and build was excellent and every soldered connection had a little red dot of inspection paint to show that it had been inspected after production.
I bought and restored one about 12 years ago and it worked fine except for intermittent noise on one frequency range. I traced the problem to a connection with a nice dot of red inspection paint but no solder had ever been applied. The mechanical connection had been fine for decades but finally wasn't, so much for the inspection paint. I suspect some high school kid was given a job on the line putting a little dot of paint on every soldered connection to make it look inspected.
When I was in elementary school I read a biography of Walter Chrysler who was the founder of Chrysler corp. When he was a young apprentice, he was working as a railroad mechanic and he said one of the most valuable lessons he learned as an apprentice was to always make your own marks when setting up the drive cylinders on a steam locomotive instead of trusting that the person before you did it correctly. I have been reminded of his sage advice many times over the years.
Rodger
As a hobby, I restore vintage ham radio gear and Hallicrafters of Chicago was one of the biggest U.S. manufacturers. Their "crowning achievement" was the SX-88 shortwave receiver introduced in 1954 and sold for a couple of years. Its 1954 price was $595, equivalent to about $7,000 today so it wasn't cheap but the design and build was excellent and every soldered connection had a little red dot of inspection paint to show that it had been inspected after production.
I bought and restored one about 12 years ago and it worked fine except for intermittent noise on one frequency range. I traced the problem to a connection with a nice dot of red inspection paint but no solder had ever been applied. The mechanical connection had been fine for decades but finally wasn't, so much for the inspection paint. I suspect some high school kid was given a job on the line putting a little dot of paint on every soldered connection to make it look inspected.
When I was in elementary school I read a biography of Walter Chrysler who was the founder of Chrysler corp. When he was a young apprentice, he was working as a railroad mechanic and he said one of the most valuable lessons he learned as an apprentice was to always make your own marks when setting up the drive cylinders on a steam locomotive instead of trusting that the person before you did it correctly. I have been reminded of his sage advice many times over the years.
Rodger
whitetiger
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Kubota tech..BX2370, RCK60, B7100HST, RTV900 w plow, Ford 1100 FWA
There is a reason equipment comes with a 1,2- or 3-years warranty rather that 72-hour warranty. No one can prevent every future issue.
Yes, it really sucks when an issue arises, but that is reality.
I've only dealt with two dealers over the past six years but both have been excellent. I bought three Kubota tractors and a generator from the local dealer, and a Kubota tractor from a dealer in Northern Wyoming, and not a single thing wrong with any of them. No leaks, everything tight and fluids at the proper level. I'm not that lucky so it has to be by design.
