How Hard to De-Green an MX5200?

[Mr Haney]

I saw an ad for a Kubota MX5200 with 1500 hours. The price looked nice to me, but this thing has the wonderful emissions stuff that requires high revs and can result in $$$$$$ repairs.

I would never, ever violate any type of environmental regulation, ever, even though I run my tractor about 30 hours a year and could never make a dent in the pollution problem, but just as a matter of interest, how hard is it to get rid of all that fine emissions stuff on this particular tractor?

 

[North Idaho Wolfman]

About $4K

And if you ever need work done to it in the future you can not take it to a dealer.
Most dealers will refuse to do any work on it.

If your only using it 30 hours a year it's simply not worth the expense and trouble.
The MX5200 is a very stable emissions system and requires just about no effort to maintain.

 

[Mr Haney]

So I don't have to worry that it's going to fail and cost me a fortune to replace?

 

[Firefight100]

I have a mx5200. And i put maybe 50 hrs a year on it. The emissions is not worth worrying about. You'll need to do a couple regens a year. When mine calls for a regen, I just run it up the road at full throttle for a mile and back home or I continue roto tilling and everything is complete. The mx is a good hd tractor

 

[North Idaho Wolfman]

So I don't have to worry that it's going to fail and cost me a fortune to replace?

Highly unlikely that you'll have any issues!

 

[Mr Haney]

Someone told me you can yank the emissions stuff off a TYM without consequences.

 

[#40Fan]

Because the TYM doesn't have a computer controlled injection pump, it won't care too much. Great prices too.

 

[McMXi]

I saw an ad for a Kubota MX5200 with 1500 hours. The price looked nice to me, but this thing has the wonderful emissions stuff that requires high revs and can result in $$$$$$ repairs.

I would never, ever violate any type of environmental regulation, ever, even though I run my tractor about 30 hours a year and could never make a dent in the pollution problem, but just as a matter of interest, how hard is it to get rid of all that fine emissions stuff on this particular tractor?

You asked "how hard" .... and the answer is not hard at all. The cost of adding a turbo to an L2501 is about the same as getting the ECU reflashed. If you don't want to gut the DPF then you'll need to make or have someone make up a custom exhaust from the turbo back. Easy to do if you have any fabrication and welding skills and a 2" mandrel bent exhaust kit from Amazon or similar.

Whether or not it's worth the cost, effort and risk is an entirely different conversation.

 

[Mr Haney]

The big concern would be that it would fail and I would have to spend thousands and wait a month for the dealer to fix it.

This is all good info to have.

 

[McMXi]

The big concern would be that it would fail and I would have to spend thousands and wait a month for the dealer to fix it.

This is all good info to have.

One approach would be to buy the MX5200 and use it, and if at a later date you have a DPF/EGR issue that isn't covered by any warranty , then rather than spend a lot of money on repair or replacement, you could have the ECU flashed and gut the defective DPF system if that system is junk. That would very likely be far less expensive than paying for parts and labor to fix any problems.

Go to Messick's.com and price out the the various components of a DPF system. They are very expensive.