<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default"><span style="color:rgb(166,77,121);font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:large">John, I 87 east of Raleigh to Rolesville R. then north, Kioti Rd. first on right side.</span></div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="color:rgb(166,77,121);font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:large">Spent a week there for service training, working for a new dealer that had just set up</span></div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="color:rgb(166,77,121);font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:large">in southern Ontario Canada. Likely in spring 2007.</span></div><div><div dir="ltr" class="m_-3572696845093923866gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div><font style="background-color:rgb(0,204,204)"></font><br>$-------&<br>Moe Fretz<br></div><div><br>L'Orignal<br>Ontario, Canada</div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Feb 10, 2019 at 8:50 AM John Hall <<a href="mailto:jtchall@nc.rr.com" target="_blank">jtchall@nc.rr.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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<p>No idea--and neither did Kubota--that's when I lost respect for
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<p>Where were you at in NC, I think Kioti is east of Raleigh?</p>
<p>John Hall</p>
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learned, while spending some times at the Kioti facility in
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<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:rgb(166,77,121)">That
the earliest of the Kubota compact tractors had Daedong
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<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:rgb(166,77,121)">This
was before Kubota has fully developed their own engine. That
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head gasket challenge?</div>
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$-------&<br>
Moe Fretz<br>
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<div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Feb 9, 2019 at 10:56
PM James Peck <<a href="mailto:jamesgpeck@hotmail.com" target="_blank">jamesgpeck@hotmail.com</a>>
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Hondas from the early 70s were not quality cars. I remember a
friend with head gasket problems.<br>
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[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.<br>
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[ 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.<br>
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<a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-01-21/deere-bests-kubota-as-u-s-tractor-sales-revive" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-01-21/deere-bests-kubota-as-u-s-tractor-sales-revive</a><br>
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