2012-2013 Yanmar 30hp-40hp tractors, are they any good ?

[scoutcub]

Nah, just my personality type. Cant see emotion on the net nor do you know a person so sometimes things are taken the wrong way. Dosent bother me wether a person wants to spend $20k on a tractor or $1500.

Glad everyone does not drive $4k tractors, they would no longer be $4k they would cost more due to demand.

Wow...couple more slams....did I hit a nerve or something? :confused3::laughing:

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OK, gotcha. You're like me....sometimes folks dont know I'm kidding around 60% of the time......... especially the wife....

 

[Eyecatcher]

Don't know about the 12 or 13 models, but I have an EX450 (CC Yanmar) that has always had a loader problem. Something to do with the valve setup to facilitate dumping the bucket quickly. (regeneration?) Problem is that anytime tilt down pressure is applied to the bucket, it floats, and you have to rev the engine to speed up the pump until it puts enough fluid to tilt the bucket down. This makes loading the bucket or trying to back blade very difficult. Yanmar America obviously has no clue as to how to fix it. The original dealer had the tractor for 3 weeks, and never attempted to fix it, only emailed pix back and forth to Yanmar customer svc in Georgia, trying, between them, to determine what was wrong. I brought the tractor home, and Yanmar America customer svc had a different dealer come pick it up, take it to his shop for repair. After several days he called me and said it was ready, it had been sold to me with the wrong hydro fluid. (I bought it as a demo w/50 hrs on it, and the 50 hr svc had just been performed prior to delivery to me). I drove 75 miles to that dealer to make sure it was fixed before they brought it back - it was exactly as it was when they took it. They had an identical unit on the lot, and I had to put them side by side, and try to load the bucket before they would believe me. By this time, we are approaching the warranty limits. From the time that I first contacted corporate customer svc, until this point (nearly a year), their rep had agreed that the valve was bad, but had never gotten authorization to change it. (So he said). I left the tractor at that dealership, they now had authorization to replace the valve. Another week went by, and again they called and said it was ready, and that they had changed the valve. I again drove over there to check it out. There was some improvement, but it still wasn't right.
I was informed that-that's as good as it gets.. I don't know what they did to it, I had marked the valve, and my mark is still there. Within a few days of them delivering it home, it was back exactly as it was. The customer svc type from Ga, and his area rep from South East, visited my farm, and both agreed that it was faulty, but that's as far as it went. There are things about the EX450 I don't like, but all in all it's a good machine. The loader however is a piece of crap. Would I buy another Yanmar? NEVER. I had an old 336D - should have kept it!!!

 

[Gods Country]

Yeah I'm beginning to think Yanmar screwed up when they teamed with CC. Those that looked past CC questionable quality to get a Yanmar now have difficulty finding dealers. I also have to wonder how much CC is pressuring some dealers to dump the Yanmar line. I hoped when they went solo it would free them up to pick up non CC dealers, but has that happened? I'm not aware of any. My sc24oo has been a good tractor and approaching 550 hours of solid hard work, not just cutting grass. My dealer, which still carries the line but doesn't want to, doesn't push them anymore, and frankly I don't think they want to see any of them either. So where does that put me? Likely looking elsewhere next time unless something changes between now and then.

 

[TnAndy]

Well, got my LX410 back from the dealer today. They determined it was a fuel starvation issue. I walked in their shop yesterday about the time they had figured this out. Shop guy and Yanmar rep said they observed air bubbles in the fuel strainer ( the clear plastic bowl under the right fender, visible from the rear of the tractor ), and actually saw the bowl try to cave inward as the little booster pump that transfers the fuel forward attempted to empty the bowl.

The shop guy pulled the fuel line off the tank fitting, and only a little fuel dribbled out. He stuck a thin screwdriver up in the fitting, and fuel gushed out.

So they removed the tank, and sloshed a little fuel around in it, and poured it out using a shop rag as a filter, and found some plastic shavings that they suspect was left in the tank when the holes were drilled for the supply and return line fittings that go in the bottom of the plastic tank. The fuel line is really small.....looked like about 1/4" to me, maybe 5/16" tops, so it wouldn't take much to block it.

WHY they don't have a bigger line, at least to that fuel strainer, as well as some kind of screen that sticks up an inch INSIDE the tank for a fuel pickup is beyond me. But if it ever happens again that something gets in my tank and blocks fuel flow, I'm going to Tractor Supply and buy what I need from the sprayer section and "field modify" my tank to prevent that stupidity.

SO FAR, the tractor seems fine. I remain cautiously optimistic.

 

[Gjamtrac]

TnAndy, 99% of all fuel solenoid problems are from poor battery cable connections or weak battery causing the solenoid to burn out.
Take off both battery cables and sandpaper the ends of cables as well as what they connect to. I think that will solve your problem.

 

[clemsonfor]

Gjamtrack I think you missed the post right above yours??? He explained it was trash in the fuel line.

 

[TnAndy]

TnAndy, 99% of all fuel solenoid problems are from poor battery cable connections or weak battery causing the solenoid to burn out.
Take off both battery cables and sandpaper the ends of cables as well as what they connect to. I think that will solve your problem.

Did I mention it was a NEW tractor ?

 

[scoutcub]

Well, got my LX410 back from the dealer today. They determined it was a fuel starvation issue. I walked in their shop yesterday about the time they had figured this out. Shop guy and Yanmar rep said they observed air bubbles in the fuel strainer ( the clear plastic bowl under the right fender, visible from the rear of the tractor ), and actually saw the bowl try to cave inward as the little booster pump that transfers the fuel forward attempted to empty the bowl.

The shop guy pulled the fuel line off the tank fitting, and only a little fuel dribbled out. He stuck a thin screwdriver up in the fitting, and fuel gushed out.

So they removed the tank, and sloshed a little fuel around in it, and poured it out using a shop rag as a filter, and found some plastic shavings that they suspect was left in the tank when the holes were drilled for the supply and return line fittings that go in the bottom of the plastic tank. The fuel line is really small.....looked like about 1/4" to me, maybe 5/16" tops, so it wouldn't take much to block it.

WHY they don't have a bigger line, at least to that fuel strainer, as well as some kind of screen that sticks up an inch INSIDE the tank for a fuel pickup is beyond me. But if it ever happens again that something gets in my tank and blocks fuel flow, I'm going to Tractor Supply and buy what I need from the sprayer section and "field modify" my tank to prevent that stupidity.

SO FAR, the tractor seems fine. I remain cautiously optimistic.

Well, good news, they seemed to have located the REAL problem. I would've been a little suspect with changing the solenoid twice....but I guess you never know. Every shop's knowledge goes to their experience level, and what they've seen in the past.....and from reading service manuals. Not always right every time....
Hoping it gives you no problems from here on out!