How Hard to De-Green a Kubota MX5200?

[Suburban Plowboy]

I saw an ad for a Kubota MX5200 with 1500 hours. The price looked nice to me, but this thing has the wonderful emissions stuff that requires high revs and can result in $$$$$$ repairs.

I would never, ever violate any type of environmental regulation, ever, even though I run my tractor about 30 hours a year and could never make a dent in the pollution problem, but just as a matter of interest, how hard is it to get rid of all that fine emissions stuff on this particular tractor?

 

[jyoutz]

I saw an ad for a Kubota MX5200 with 1500 hours. The price looked nice to me, but this thing has the wonderful emissions stuff that requires high revs and can result in $$$$$$ repairs.

I would never, ever violate any type of environmental regulation, ever, even though I run my tractor about 30 hours a year and could never make a dent in the pollution problem, but just as a matter of interest, how hard is it to get rid of all that fine emissions stuff on this particular tractor?

It’s very difficult and your resale opportunities are limited if you do this. If it bothers you that much, buy an older pre-emissions machine. I never give that stuff a second thought on my machine and appreciate not sucking as much diesel particulates. But to each their own.

 

[Suburban Plowboy]

Yes, to each his own.

 

[2manyrocks]

Is the emissions system tied into the electronic injection system to the degree that it would be difficult to separate them?

 

[deserteagle71]

how hard is it to get rid of all that fine emissions stuff on this particular tractor?

Easy enough. Whether you could get the tractor to run afterwards is another story. Like any modern engine that Kubota is computer controlled and if you expect to be able to run it after deleting all that emissions stuff you'd better know how to reprogram the computer to run without it.

As mentioned in one of the other posts, if you want a tractor without all the emissions crap on it, buy an older, pre-emissions model.

 

[Fladogman]

Don't worry about the emissions stuff too much. It's not affecting my use of my MX 5800. How much it activates is affected by how you typically run the rpms. Mine only runs about once a month. And then for less than 20 minutes.

 

[Jrasband]

The tractors work fine and maybe you'll appreciate not having the soot coming out in your face.

 

[Midniteoyl]

Don't worry about the emissions stuff too much. It's not affecting my use of my MX 5800. How much it activates is affected by how you typically run the rpms. Mine only runs about once a month. And then for less than 20 minutes.

Ya, my dealer said if you are doing any kinda work with the tractor (not just transporting, for example) to up the throttle so the minimum RPMs are ~1200-1400 after warm-up and that's what I've been doing. I remember only 2 times needing to let the machine sit for a regen before shutdown, and each time was less than 10 minutes.

 

[CloverKnollFarms]

There is only one manufacturer that isn't using common rail injection, where you can remove a DPF and the tractor has no idea. That is TYM. For resale you'd just put it back in.

The rest would go into limp mode and be unuseable.

That said, most TYM tier IV diesels run 200+ hours, with no need for a regen, so owners dont care to remove it

 

[bdhsfz6]

Aside from the lack of soot, I hardly notice the DPF on my MX5800. I have just under 2000 hours on it, and only once had to wait for a regen cycle to complete before shutting down the machine. Most of the time, regens happen during work operations and I don't even notice.

I can't predict what the future holds as far as expensive repairs go, but so far, the system has been trouble free.