Recent content by brain55

I've been to a lot of service schools over my 30+ year career and this has probably been the most challenging.

It's been fun so far, lots going on with 8 machines that are bugged to be diagnosed.

A little closer view

I'm in lovely Salina, KS at Great Plains Manufacturing attending a class on Kubota M7 electronics diagnosis. Thought I'd start a thread and share some pics and thoughts along the way. Brian

I'm not sure I'd call an M-series mid-sized.

Here's the proper tool for the job. Brian

Here we are with the M7 hooked to the dyno. It made 142hp at 580 PTO RPM. With the throttle turned down to 2005 RPM/540 PTO RPM it made 110 HP. Brian

Here's another shot

A B3030 for comparison

We have our first M7-151 in the yard now, working on doing the pdi. Here are a couple pics of it in the shop. Brian

Here's another view.

This is how I keep mine neat. Socket rails pop-riveted to the bottom of the drawer. From 3/16" to 1 1/2" and 4mm to 36mm plus various specialty sockets.

If and when you turn one over. Don't try to start it without pulling the glow plugs before cranking over to pump out any engine oil that is likely in the cylinders. The picture is the result. This machine was practically brand new with only 9.5 hours on the clock. It bent all 3 connecting rods...

Things are certainly picking up around here, but this is nothing yet. On top of the customer work we'll have once it stops raining, there will be an additional 170 Kubota Harvest Rental tractors coming in that will need to be assembled by May 1st. I'm not even bringing up all of the Bobcat work...

Do you mean in this pic? That's the way the wheel is built so you can change the offset of the wheel to change the track.