Kubota L6060 Engine failure

[5030]

Never knew any judge was 'honorable.....

 

[Username Taken]

Never knew any judge was 'honorable.....

Seems the higher up they go, the less so....

While I'm no fan of lawyers.......................................... I got nothing

But anyway, the people involved that are suing Ford, generic motors, Chrysler, et al aren't trying to place blame, they're just looking for some financial relief.

It's the EPA's fault for forcing unproven, poorly tested equipment on -- Everybody. They come up with stoopid ideas and they have the ability to force manufacturers and the public to accept them. If it don't work? Sucks to be you. Costs them nothing.

It's not the fault of gm or Ford that the CP4 pump can't take American Diesel, they tested the HPFP but on decent fuel not what the EPA forces on us; but you can't really sue a gooberment agency. Well, not unless you're part of the 'team' like when the Sierra CLub or Earth Firsters sue the EPA and have a settlement already worked out that is very much to the disadvantage of Americans and other living things, then go in front of a 'friendly' judge and have it codified.

I'm just trying to let people know, to advise them to look out for themselves. Just saying -- A lot of these newer fuel pumps aren't up to the job. And you need to be aware of that. If you exercise due care, you might be able to save some money.

This isn't about a philosophical POV, it's about reality and trying to live in it. It is what it is and I see no chance of it changing in our life times.

 

[MoKelly]

Never knew any judge was 'honorable.....

Worse yet, congress folks are also entitled to be called “honorable”.

MoKelly

 

[5030]

No honor among thrives in my view.

 

[Alan W.]

I remember when I worked at Hitachi they built a high pressure gas fuel pump. They had a quality testing lab to run the pumps nonstop for a number of hours. Then the pumps would be disassembled and cut in two to check for wear and malfunctions.
Multiple fuel formulations to match what was available in the countries that they would be sold was used.
When I disposed of the test fuel it would be almost black from continuously cycling through the pumps.
Fuel, whether it be diesel or gas is different from country to country. And even though the new diesels crank out impressive power and fuel efficiency they do it, in my opinion at the cost of reliability.

 

[goeduck]

I deal with customers with relatively recent post warranty issues in my business and as long as I see that the customer is clean (no fraud) I step up and take care of them. It is not even a blip on the radar on the month end numbers. But that is me.

 

[5030]

Why I put Stanadyne fuel additive in every tank. ULSD needs all the 'help' it can get, IMO.

 

[JethroB]

Why I put Stanadyne fuel additive in every tank. ULSD needs all the 'help' it can get, IMO.

I hope for the OP that Kubota Corp. will step up. Maybe testing the fuel is just one of the hoops and boxes needed to be ticked as a request is passed up the ladder for approvals. Lots of policies and procedures involved in large companies and CYA too.

 

[Smokeydog]

Why I put Stanadyne fuel additive in every tank. ULSD needs all the 'help' it can get, IMO.

I do too.

Turbo Diesel Register local club had a tour of City Diesel, local regional diesel repair shop. Showing and telling us problems and how the best way to prevent problems. Lubricates from loss of sulfur, raises cetane for better combustion and coalesces water for removal by filtration. In my truck it gets about 1 mile per gallon better pays for itself. Free with benefits hard to beat.

 

[MHarryE]

No matter how well designed and built, things are going to break. That's why commercial airliners have 2 engines capable of safely flying on one engine for different distances based party on reliability record. The problem here is dealer not being able to resolve the engine issue with the tractor on their shop floor. The OP is facing a >$10k repair bill while in the meantime, tractor is not available so OP cannot earn the money to pay the repair bill. Somewhere in my hard drives I have an internal JD CEO message to employees about the cost of quality - how much they were paying in warranty and goodwill in order to keep JD's reputation. Things are going fail - minimize that - but get the customer going ASAP. My history at Allis-Chalmers, Case-IH, and Cat, we have dropped machines from production to take the engine or FIP away to get a customer going. One difference here - we never did that for a machine 5 years old so that shouldn't be a qualifier but a dealer not getting manufacturer support to resolve this problem quickly is the real problem.