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[John Hall]

No idea--and neither did Kubota--that's when I lost respect for them.

Where were you at in NC, I think Kioti is east of Raleigh?

John Hall



On 2/10/2019 6:06 AM, Moe Fretz wrote:
> I learned, while spending some times at the Kioti facility in NC.
>
> That the earliest of the Kubota compact tractors had Daedong (Kioti) 
> engines in them.
> This was before Kubota has fully developed their own engine. That may 
> have been
> the head gasket challenge?
>
> $-------&
> Moe Fretz
>
> L'Orignal
> Ontario, Canada
>
>
> On Sat, Feb 9, 2019 at 10:56 PM James Peck <jamesgpeck at hotmail.com 
> <mailto:jamesgpeck at hotmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     The Hondas from the early 70s were not quality cars. I remember a
>     friend with head gasket problems.
>
>     [John Hall] I may own one of those orange things one day, but it
>     won't be a very old one. We got suckered into working on one a few
>     years back that was 25-30 years old. Local dealer support sucked.
>     Had to get parts from the northeast. Called every phone number I
>     could find until I got in touch with an older factory service
>     tech.---nobody new what head gasket to sell us. We kept getting
>     the run around about possible "gray market" tractors. The parts
>     guys were groaning just as soon as we gave them the model number.
>     If its old, I'll take IH or Deere any day over orange.
>
>     [ James Peck] I can remember driving by a Kubota dealership for
>     the first time in 1970 on the way to take a military physical. 
>     The tractors sitting on that lot in 1970 would now be 49 years old.
>
>     https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-01-21/deere-bests-kubota-as-u-s-tractor-sales-revive
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