whitetiger
Gold Member
- Joined
- Nov 20, 2004
- Messages
- 349
- Location
- Kansas City, Kansas
- Tractor
- BX2370 Kubota, Ford 1100, MF135
Thats great, I printed it off to check my BX2380. I too suspect I received old stock. Do you have the chart to check the tractor itself as well? I suspect my FEL and front snowblower might also be old stock. All was bought in summer of 2022.Kubota has a website where you can look up the date of manufacture of a Kubota engine by serial number. This might assist in dating the tractor.
Kubota Engine Serial Number ID | Kubota Engine America
Find all of the information you need to correctly identify your Kubota engine.Find all of the information you need to correctly identify your Kubota engine.www.kubotaengine.com
The chart in the pdf included in post #81 gives the information for the tractor PIN which will give you the month and year of production.Thats great, I printed it off to check my BX2380. I too suspect I received old stock. Do you have the chart to check the tractor itself as well? I suspect my FEL and front snowblower might also be old stock. All was bought in summer of 2022.
The engine serial number is stamped during assembly.Does the engine block get a number during original machining, or does it get the number when an engine is assembled using it? How long after an engine is assembled is a tractor built using it? There could be significant time differences.
Bruce
Or, again, it'll matter if you ever attempt to trade it in because dealers include that in their evaluations these days.
This isn't 1980, it's less and less that the dealer is local, and more and more than they're operating in a corporate form like car dealers.
It's not a city or country mentality, don't be an *******, it's a whole shift in society.