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<blockquote data-quote="Fishfiles" data-source="post: 35708" data-attributes="member: 782"><p>It is a small world , I get up this morning , drinking coffee and reading this site , yesterday evening I picked up a friends T140 ( as all the big ones where out on rent ) to spread 36 yards of milled asphalt in my yard to extend my driveways , this T140 is one I put a new motor in 96 hours ago , the motor failed at 1460 hours ( as I wrote it on the back door ) from the exact same senerio as your , low oil pressure warning , yesterday it was running 71 psi reved up , it was down to 5 psi when I hooked a mechanical gague in it back when , this guy changes his oil religiously , and uses Rotella 15/40 and Bobcat brand filters in all his machines , so lack of service or inadequate oil or filters I would say was not the factor , when I took the oil pan off this 140's engine it had the silver paste on the bottom of the pan so thick you could scrape it up with a putty knife ---------------- I believe there is a problem with the new Kubota engines in the smaller machines like 140 , 180 and 190 as I have seen quite a few go down from lost engine oil pressure in the past couple of years , and all where right past the end of the warranty in the 1,500 hour range , I was a service manager for a large rental house here in the city and stay in touch with them and other rental house and they have all have had the same problem , it seems the crank grinds up the bearings which makes the oil pressure go down --------- when I was working at the rental house back in the 80's we were told we had the most Bobcats at one location , we had 53 Bobcats to rent with or without operators at one time , funny thing is in 12 years that Iworked there I never had not "ONE" motor go down , bare renting machines is very hard on the machinery as 90% of the people renting them down know and don't care and will push the machine to the limits , and being that it is cheaper to rent a smaller machine than a larger one they will do what the machine was not meant to do ------------ maybe it is inferior metals that are made from all the old Chevy's and washing machines we send over there to be smelted down into parts coming back to haunt us ---------going spread</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Fishfiles, post: 35708, member: 782"] It is a small world , I get up this morning , drinking coffee and reading this site , yesterday evening I picked up a friends T140 ( as all the big ones where out on rent ) to spread 36 yards of milled asphalt in my yard to extend my driveways , this T140 is one I put a new motor in 96 hours ago , the motor failed at 1460 hours ( as I wrote it on the back door ) from the exact same senerio as your , low oil pressure warning , yesterday it was running 71 psi reved up , it was down to 5 psi when I hooked a mechanical gague in it back when , this guy changes his oil religiously , and uses Rotella 15/40 and Bobcat brand filters in all his machines , so lack of service or inadequate oil or filters I would say was not the factor , when I took the oil pan off this 140's engine it had the silver paste on the bottom of the pan so thick you could scrape it up with a putty knife ---------------- I believe there is a problem with the new Kubota engines in the smaller machines like 140 , 180 and 190 as I have seen quite a few go down from lost engine oil pressure in the past couple of years , and all where right past the end of the warranty in the 1,500 hour range , I was a service manager for a large rental house here in the city and stay in touch with them and other rental house and they have all have had the same problem , it seems the crank grinds up the bearings which makes the oil pressure go down --------- when I was working at the rental house back in the 80's we were told we had the most Bobcats at one location , we had 53 Bobcats to rent with or without operators at one time , funny thing is in 12 years that Iworked there I never had not “ONE” motor go down , bare renting machines is very hard on the machinery as 90% of the people renting them down know and don't care and will push the machine to the limits , and being that it is cheaper to rent a smaller machine than a larger one they will do what the machine was not meant to do ------------ maybe it is inferior metals that are made from all the old Chevy's and washing machines we send over there to be smelted down into parts coming back to haunt us ---------going spread [/QUOTE]
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