Kubota Temperature Readings

Harv · Jan 7, 2001

Jeff -

Thanks for the pict -- worth a thousand words. /w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif

You're seeing exactly the same thing I am (except yours is cleaner), so I guess I'll stop worrying about it. I was concerned when other folks said their temp guage barely registered at all under normal operations, but it makes more sense to me to have "normal" right in the middle of the scale. Makes it easier to know when it's warmed up.

BTW - looks like you're ready to toss another 5 gallons of diesel in the tank. /w3tcompact/icons/wink.gif

P.K. Burke · Jan 7, 2001

Harv:
You can call me Pat, PK, or anything but late for dinner. I'm in Kelseyville Ca. which is in Lake county about 100 miles northwest of Sacramento and 40 miles east of Ukiah. On the shores of beautiful Clear Lake, (misnomer) with the cleanest air in the country. Where abouts are you?

Harv · Jan 7, 2001

PK (I like that one) -

I live in the S.F. East Bay area -- Walnut Creek to be exact. My tractor lives on 42 acres outside of Sutter Creek, near Jackson, off of highway 49.

Looks like we're slowly building up some Californy presence here on the board. /w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif

PaulB · Jan 7, 2001

Now Harv you got me all worried again, just when I thought everything was OK. Lets hear form some B series owners - like I said, my 1700 gauge NEVER EVER has been higher than 1/8 inch off the low temp. peg. Last time I posted on this, several B owners said the same thing, so did my dealer, so i stopped worrying about it and let it rest. Now along comes Harv and his band of L owners, and I am all worried again. I gotta stop reading so many posts or my ulcer is never going to heal!

Harv · Jan 7, 2001

Paul -

I'm starting to suspect that each make/model of tractor has its own temperature-reading characteristics. I would look for consensus amongst other B1700 owners. /w3tcompact/icons/wink.gif

PaulInMi · Jan 7, 2001

Harv-

In my 7 short hours of tractorin, my gauge hasn't gone much above just over the top of the C line. Of course, today was the warmest its been since I,ve owned it, 34F/w3tcompact/icons/frown.gif.

I bought a light duty rear blade(contrary to the conversation in the JD section) today and I had to try it out/w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif.

Paul

Jeff_In_NC · Jan 7, 2001

That picture was taken this afternoon with the tractor idleing in the driveway for about 10 min. Outside air temp upper 40s and the tractor had not been started since Christmas day. I was gonna take some actual tempature readings but found that my temp probe has been damaged....now I have to search up a Fluke service center....
Yep, it's about time to feed her again BUT diesel cost too much now and I wouldn't want it to get old in the tank before spring. /w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif
jeff in nc

Harv · Jan 7, 2001

Paul -

You've got a 3000, right?

I just peeked at the 2600/3000 brochure and it looks like you've got a whole new (and improved, I must say) instrument panel. Odds are, from what I'm gathering in this thread, that it will read differently than those of us with the old-fashioned guages.

Interesting, though. Thanks for the input. /w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif

Wingnut · Jan 8, 2001

Harv,
mid-Michigan ... L3710 GST ... and the only time (summer and winter) that the gauge has gone above the 1/8th mark (halfway to 1/4, of course) is when I let the front screen get clogged. Cleaned it off and back to the 1/8 mark. That includes when I really worked it by tilling the pasture (first time) in 3rd gear and with tines set for max depth. This winter when pushing snow ... it hardly makes the low temp line even after working hard.

too bad that common sense ain't

john_bud · Jan 9, 2001

Harv,

Here in Western Wisconsin my new L3410 HST with only 29 hours, has the same response as "Wingnut's" L3710. It only goes to the 1/8th mark. I just assumed that I wasn't pushing it hard enough yet to cause it to break a sweat. I was on it for 2 hours last weekend and it took about 45 min to reach the 1/8th mark. Ambient temperature was up to 20 F and I spent 20 min idling first.

In the fall when I was playing with the tractor, learning how to use the HST and the Loader, I made some earthen berms to hopefully catch the spring melt on my back acres and form a duck puddle. I only had the engine up to 2000 RPM's, but worked it steady for 8 hours one day when the ambient was in the 70's and it only reached the 1/8th mark. Hopefully, that means there is a lot of reserve cooling on tap for when I do work it hard at the PTO speeds!

Best of luck,

jb