Junkman, you are cooking up trouble /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif.
Well, I know that people are not routinely having to order oil filters or general filters for a Kubota and then waiting 8 weeks /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif. If in that event should ever happen I think I might just go get a NAPA/WIX filter HUH? /forums/images/graemlins/crazy.gif
I guess with the leaking bladder tank/sender recall I was just lucky that mine did not fail until parts where available, about the time I learned of the recall here on TBN--with no call or complaint from me---my dealer showed up at my house with a new bladder tank and then a few weeks latter as I recall the sender. I can imagine that those who might have had a leak on their new tractor and then found out the bladder tank or sender --because they were a new design due to the recall--had to wait for stock to be available were upset /forums/images/graemlins/mad.gif. Bad things happen sometimes to good people and apparently to good tractors because a BX is not a "piece of crap"--end quote. I also suspect if that caused an irratated new owner to trade their new tractor for another brand they would loose some money on such a trade and the worst thing of it will be that there is no guarantee that they won't have a similar recall or such on that unit--what you gonna do then--trade again? Sometimes you gotta know when to keep a cool head and maintain perspective. I do hope--assuming the story is not just a story--that said person has much better luck with the new unit. No reason that he should not /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif and no reason that he would not have had similar luck with the BX had he stuck it out /forums/images/graemlins/smirk.gif
There is another current thread--" How Rough is to Rough"--- and a feller is using his tractor "like a tractor" and the new tractor has been scraped and had a few "things knocked around underneath" and "if it breaks well so be it", well, guess what, you can count on it breaking, anything can be broken, working something as it was intended is one thing, abusing it is another, tractors like all machines can be abused and when they are they will break, it will be expensive and guaranteed the new owner is going to be upset /forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif. That is the way of things. J