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    Life expectancy of the Kubota 3 cyl engine

    Yep, I know... These machines belong to a railyard maintenance company, and get beaten beyond anything that I have ever seen. No, Im not kidding. 1000, that is one thousand hours and up to 1500 hours on engine oil changes. The oil barely runs out the drain plug hole when we change it, but these...
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    RTV Facts/Fiction...

    bczoom, if your machine bogs on a hill and you have to back out of the throttle to keep your speed and power up, the servo valve needs adjusting. The hst on an rtv is not like a tractor that you have a direct link to the pump output, but a load sensing valve (servo) that sees what you want from...
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    RTV Facts/Fiction...

    I apreciate the kind comments. I am located in British Columbia in Canada. I do know that Kubota Canada is a totally different company than Kubota US, so some things might be different, but the machines are the same. My knowledge is probably not that common, but if a tech really cares and takes...
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    Life expectancy of the Kubota 3 cyl engine

    I have seen several rtvs with over 12,000 hours on them and little to no maintenance, the engine oil was changed every 1000 hours, trans at the same time and all the filters. That drivetrain is so indestructable it is truly amazing. Those machines still start right up drive good and use very...
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    RTV Facts/Fiction...

    First off, just want to say hi to everyone on here as I am new, seems to be a very friendly forum and I like it. I have noticed since I started looking on this forum a lot of wrong information and a lot of grey area for a lot of people and wanted to try to help and use my knowledge to help some...
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    Shifting Problems--RTV 900 w/60 hrs

    Well aparantly I havecreated quite a stirr... Thats ok though. Glad to be joined and a new member though to your forum. Itake a lot of pride in my work andwant to assist in others problemshowever that I can.</p> So on this post, obviously the problem is getting out of gear. Only two things...
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