Re: Kubota vs Yanmar

Dick2 · Nov 17, 2014

I bought quite a few Yanmar small air cooled Diesel engines for various applications at ADOT. Very unique engine; it would run either way that you started it. Very smooth with very little vibration. However, those small air cooled Diesels were "throw-away" engines. It was less costly to replace one than to overhaul it.

I bought a mix of Yanmar and Kubota liquid cooled Diesels for light towers and other machines; they seemed to be about equal in those applications.

Traditional Farmer · Nov 17, 2014

I owned a few of both and Yanmars are definitely the best, motors and tractors.

Ken Macfarlane · Nov 18, 2014

Around here piles of old refer truck kubota engines available, also
used in skidsteers and little gensets commonly. Can't say I've ever seen a yanmar
diesel outside of a sailboat.

pat sublett · Nov 18, 2014

I've got 3 Kubota engines, have had 1 for over 20 yrs., no problem with them. I also have a yellow John Deere back hoe with a Yanmar engine. They make a green tractor on the same frame. The Green one has a 72Hp Mexico Deere engine. My industrial back hoe has a 37Hp Yanmar. I have never needed more power.

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