Where do you buy your parts/fluids?

[Mike of Southern IL]

Just became a member this morning. What a great web-site!

Just purchased a 2014 Kubota L3200 HST 4-WD. With the purchase I got a FEL w/66" quick couple front bucket, 5' foot cutter, 5' finish mower, backhoe w/16" bucket, 5' box blade on R 4 ind. tires. Brought it home on a 18' dual axle trailer (2 trips!).
3 things drove my decision to buy now:

1) the tier 4 pollution standards for the next generation tractors. As a truck driver I'm all to familiar with that! My experience with "regen" was a nightmare! Kubota my never have a problem but I was gun shy.

2) last winter was brutal for most of us here in the Midwest. Had to leave my car at the end of the driveway for several days because of 3' to 5' drifts across the driveway. The driveway is about 1/3 mile long.

3) the old farmhouse has seen it's best days and time to clear the back half of a former pasture over looking a bluff with creek below for a new house, hopefully a log home. You know how plans go.........?

My question is, where do you purchase your parts and fluids? Locally or have you found a web-site that offer the above at a discount. Any and all info would be appreciated. I look forward to conversations with all.

 

[Daren Todd]

I usually load up on motor oil when walmart has a sale. Get my oil and fuel filter from the local auto parts. Bearings and lip seals i source from the local bearing supplier. Same bearings and lip seals but half the price of the dealer. Parts i usually order online from golden eagle or messics. Of course that depends on what the part is starters and altenators i send out and have them rebuilt through a local armature company that we use at work. The hydraulic fluid i get from kubota. I just use what they recommend for my tractor and mine has a serviceable screen instead of a hydraulic filter, so i just pull and clean it

 

[Billdog350]

For online, Messics or Golden Eagle, just check each to see which shipping and price is more reasonable, sometimes one is way more than the other. I also use a dealer here in CT East PBE which has great prices and very polite staff. For those in NH, I highly recommend Townline Equipment which is another great dealer and one I used to do contract service for.

Townline has all of the fiche online and they're happy to drop ship things to your door...

Like others said, a good quality diesel oil (I prefer to use 10w30 diesel Rotella) works fine. Doesn't need to be Kubota, however make sure to use the UDT/SUDT/SUDT2 in the transmissions, esp for the HST machines.

 

[RCW]

Like Billdog said - I use Rotella motor oil. Only Kubota SUDT2 and filters.


Just haven't found a decent filter locally other than the Kubota dealer, and I don't buy online.

Compared a cross-referenced FRAM oil filter to Kubota while back - staying with Kubota.

 

[Mike of Southern IL]

Thanks for everybody's advice. I'll put it to use!