B3350 Prediction Confirmed

[SDT]

I was surprised by the cost quoted for injectors because I have several common rail injectors on a shelf where I display failed parts. So I checked the injector price between my old L5740 with low pressure mechanical injectors and my L6060 with a common rail having electronic injectors. It is about $250 for the L5740 injectors and $650 for the L6060 injectors. My L6060 uses about half the fuel of the L5740 but at the low consumption of either will take a lot of hours to make up the cost difference; however, I bought the L6060 primarily for the cleaner air due to my wife’s asthma problem and that is a huge difference. I notice it too even in the cab.

Interesting.

My L6060 uses more fuel to do the same work as my M9960.

Considerably more.

SDT

 

[TimP]

It should be no surprise that "TractorHouse" currently has 75 B3350 tractors offered for sale. WOW !!! The B3000 model had only a couple for sale.

That is eye opening.

 

[bumperm]

An old thread, but some more info:

An early adopter, I bought my B3350HSDC in Nov 2013. Now, at 790 hours, regens were down to less than 4 hours. The engine was choking on the back pressure. Cost for the new DPF, with new sensors and labor (they also checked the valves) was over $5000.00.

I minimized idle to short warm up and turbo cool down. I moved key to glow plugs on after start until engine smoothed, in short I did everything I could to baby the DPF. The stated 3,000 hour DPF life was a lie. Cost to "run" the DPF, not including the extra fuel it burns, was over $6.25 an engine hour. I'm disgusted.

 

[Johnkn]

^^ I thought Kubota was assisting owners with the resolution on the B3350. Moving to the common rail system is one of the reasons I purchased my LX3310.

 

[SDT]

^^ I thought Kubota was assisting owners with the resolution on the B3350. Moving to the common rail system is one of the reasons I purchased my LX3310.

That has happened in a few cases. Very few.

SDT