Maintenance is expensive!

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November 06, 2019, 01:02 PM

PHPaul

Maintenance is expensive!

Time for the 400 hour service on the Cabota.

Just the filters - air, oil, fuel, hydraulic and transmission - were $140.00. Add in another $60 for a couple of gallons of Kubota's trans/hydraulic fluid.

Oh well. Pay me now or pay me later...

Be careful when following the masses. Sometimes the M is silent.

November 06, 2019, 01:06 PM

bendable

yeah but you saved $200.00 on the labor , so , really , you are ahead of the game

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November 06, 2019, 01:20 PM

PHPaul

quote:
Originally posted by bendable:
yeah but you saved $200.00 on the labor , so , really , you are ahead of the game

Yup, plus those were NAPA filters. Same filter painted gray with a black K stenciled on it would've been even more.

Be careful when following the masses. Sometimes the M is silent.

November 06, 2019, 03:26 PM

MNSIG

The filter pack for my JD is $195 with no fluids. They definitely get a good buck for those things.

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November 06, 2019, 03:54 PM

PHPaul

quote:
Originally posted by sigmonkey:
I though you were talking 'bout wimminz again...

Well, some folks marry a Mercedes, I married a Corolla. Cheap to keep, runs forever. Little noisy tho...

Be careful when following the masses. Sometimes the M is silent.

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November 06, 2019, 05:47 PM

PHPaul

quote:
Originally posted by sns3guppy:
Maintenance is a lot less expensive than no maintenance.

Exactly. Hence the "pay me now or pay me later".

Be careful when following the masses. Sometimes the M is silent.

November 06, 2019, 05:50 PM

PHPaul

quote:
Originally posted by sigmonkey:
Turn up the radio.

WHAT? CAN'T HEAR YOU. RADIO'S TOO LOUD.

Be careful when following the masses. Sometimes the M is silent.

November 06, 2019, 08:39 PM

irreverent

quote:
Originally posted by PHPaul:
quote:
Originally posted by sigmonkey:
I though you were talking 'bout wimminz again...

Well, some folks marry a Mercedes, I married a Corolla. Cheap to keep, runs forever. Little noisy tho...

Ahem. I’m telling her you said that, lol.

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November 07, 2019, 04:51 AM

PHPaul

quote:
Originally posted by irreverent:

Ahem. I’m telling her you said that, lol.

You wouldn't be the first...

Be careful when following the masses. Sometimes the M is silent.

November 07, 2019, 08:03 AM

jimmy123x

quote:
Originally posted by PHPaul:
Time for the 400 hour service on the Cabota.

Just the filters - air, oil, fuel, hydraulic and transmission - were $140.00. Add in another $60 for a couple of gallons of Kubota's trans/hydraulic fluid.

Oh well. Pay me now or pay me later...

That's a deal these days.....I'm paying $30-60 a filter for oil or fuel filters on small generators (under 30 kw) for Onan/Cummins, Kohler, etc......

"It did not really matter what we expected from life, but rather what life expected from us. We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life, and instead to think of ourselves as those who were being questioned by life – daily and hourly. Our answer must consist not in talk and meditation, but in right action and in right conduct. Life ultimately means taking the responsibility to find the right answer to its problems and to fulfill the tasks which it constantly sets for each individual." Viktor Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning, 1946.

November 09, 2019, 02:05 PM

Prefontaine

Dude it’s a Kubota! That’s one reliable mother fucker in a sea of unreliable hot garbage out there. I’m the opposite, $140 extremely well spent!

What am I doing? I'm talking to an empty telephone

November 10, 2019, 08:33 AM

ridewv

quote:
Originally posted by PHPaul:
Time for the 400 hour service on the Cabota.

Just the filters - air, oil, fuel, hydraulic and transmission - were $140.00. Add in another $60 for a couple of gallons of Kubota's trans/hydraulic fluid.

You sure 2 gallons is enough? I recall buying a 5 gallon pail of SUDT when I did the 50 hour on my B2650 and there wasn't much left over.
I'll be doing the 50 hour on my L2501 now pretty soon.

No car is as much fun to drive, as any motorcycle is to ride.

November 10, 2019, 09:18 AM

PHPaul

quote:
Originally posted by ridewv:
You sure 2 gallons is enough? I recall buying a 5 gallon pail of SUDT when I did the 50 hour on my B2650 and there wasn't much left over.
I'll be doing the 50 hour on my L2501 now pretty soon.

I've got a 2.5 gallon jug on hand.