Original Kubota Motor

[kubota.ray76]

I just bought a Kubota RTV 1140 and the motor looks clean/ new compared to the rest of the vehicle? Is there any way to tell if it's the original engine or a replacement?

Thanks!

 

[1970cs]

Do you have the original owners manual?

Pat

 

[kubota.ray76]

I should have mentioned I bought it an auction with 1500 hours...

 

[coachgeo]

no clue if engine serial numbers are recorded to a matching RTV. They really didn't do that with tractors. For tractors it seems the engine serial number was only important to matching it with the correct engine and other associated tractor parts (and to curb Grey tractor use in USA). They didn't match engines to a Tractor's VIN you might say. There was no VIN

that probably has, ZERO reference to RTV's. Suggest you contact your larger Kubota RTV dealer parts counter on this question.

 

[lugbolt]

Yeah there's a way to tell. Call Kubota directly (customer service number)-everything is serialized, and they should have the original engine serial number on file. I do know all the tractors come from the factory with a white sticker on them that has the tractor model, serial, and then the engine serial number, on that sticker. Kubota records this. Another avenue, if a dealer replaced the engine within the last 4 years, there will be record of it. Kubota has a system of a "replacement engine request" that MUST be filled out in it's entirety before an engine is shipped to a dealer. That form asks for the installed engine's serial number, the machine's serial number, and a bunch of other stuff, and a bunch more stuff if it's over 25hp, including documentation of the failed engine's destruction. Even if a dealer didn't do it, you can give the customer service guys/gals your current engine serial number, and they can kinda tell you where it came from, who ordered it, why, etc.

The days of just blindly ordering a diesel engine are over. Everything's documented now and has been for a few years now-- thanks to the good old US EPA.