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Sold this machine over the past weekend to a young mechanic that plans to fix it up. That's the end of may part in its saga.

I have put around 20 hours on my new machine at this point: pushing over small trees and digging up stumps with the ripper tooth attachment, turning and loading compost, and few other odd jobs here and there on my farm. After reading the manual, I learned that a 100-hour break-in period is...

I had hoped to hear back from the dealer sometime on Saturday, but that didn't happen. So last night, I went ahead with my plan and wrote to the Sany America service address (and cc'd the dealer) to report my issues, along with a link to my post here. In a surprising turn of events, I received a...

Hi all, My Bobcat 331 started overheating last Fall, so I started looking at rebuilding it. I signed up here and posted about its issues in another topic, so I won't rehash those details here. However, I knew a rebuild would be a stretch (both in terms of time and money), so I spent a lot of...

I am not sure the engine needs a "full" rebuild, but I decided that it needs more time and money than I want to put into it in one shot. I've put it up for sale on Craigslist, and I've had several people contact me about it. If it doesn't sell, I start looking into rebuilding it and revive this...

I have not dug into the machine to determine exactly what's going on, but bearings started squealing and the engine now overheats fairly quickly. It got warm enough to kill the fuel pump, which probably saved it from worse damage. Given the symptoms, I suppose that it could "just" be the water...

Thanks for this reference. I looked around the site and couldn’t find a v1902…. Is there a newer model that would drop into place? I think the rest of my my excavator is in good shape, but it’s definitely a tough call to evaluate the trade offs here.

I have a tractor that could lift the engine. I have tools for maintaining my machines. The learning curve seems to be the biggest obstacle.

I am trying to decide whether it will be worth the effort required to rebuild the Kubota v1902 engine in my '95 Bobcat 331. This would be a much bigger undertaking than I have ever attempted on my own. Rebuild kits seem to be readily available, but that path assumes that you know what you are...