Nanni Spares

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Iliade

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Got by the weed in Dartmouth and the motor overheated. I spotted it before the exhaust melted but the engine had. It was not happy on my return to home, but now find that after a week unused it has hydraulic locked.

Does anyone know a good source of kubota spares at 'agricultural' prices?
 
SAPurdie said:
Got by the weed in Dartmouth and the motor overheated. I spotted it before the exhaust melted but the engine had. It was not happy on my return to home, but now find that after a week unused it has hydraulic locked.

Does anyone know a good source of kubota spares at 'agricultural' prices?
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how would water get into the cylinder if no water cooling, was / has the head gasket gone duff
 
sailorman said:
how would water get into the cylinder if no water cooling, was / has the head gasket gone duff
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Why the cross-examination? He's only asking for Kubota spares stockist!!

And OP do your own work.
Start here:-
www.kubota.com/product/GroupTractors.aspx

Fat lot of good any recommendation from me when you don't bother to specify the area.
The one I know is in mid-Wales, and very accommodating.
 
charles_reed said:
Why the cross-examination? He's only asking for Kubota spares stockist!!

And OP do your own work.
Start here:-
www.kubota.com/product/GroupTractors.aspx

Fat lot of good any recommendation from me when you don't bother to specify the area.
The one I know is in mid-Wales, and very accommodating.
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I was enquiring why / what is the problem.
Do you have a issues with that
 
charles_reed said:
Fat lot of good any recommendation from me when you don't bother to specify the area.
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I'm assuming that the "Location: Shoreham" in the OP is a reasonable clue.

sailorman said:
I was enquiring why / what is the problem.
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A perfectly sensible question, too. The OP writes, a little cryptically, "I spotted it before the exhaust melted but the engine had."

Before the engine had ... what? Melted? Knowing the nature of the problem better would help determine whether to recommend somewhere that's good for standard service parts or somewhere good for supplying major rebuild components.
 
I think the reference to the engine melting is a joke .... in actuality a reference to the head gasket "melting" and the cylinder/s filling with water.

Parts needed will be new head gasket as a minimum, full top end gasket set as a standard purchase, and access to a machine shop for head skimming most likely. :(

Richard
 
RichardS said:
I think the reference to the engine melting is a joke .... in actuality a reference to the head gasket "melting" and the cylinder/s filling with water.

Parts needed will be new head gasket as a minimum, full top end gasket set as a standard purchase, and access to a machine shop for head skimming most likely. :(
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You may well be right, Richard, in interpreting the sentence in that way.
But if salt water's sat in a cylinder for over a week, rather more repairs and difficulty might be involved.
 
macd said:
You may well be right, Richard, in interpreting the sentence in that way.
But if salt water's sat in a cylinder for over a week, rather more repairs and difficulty might be involved.
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I was thinking more about water + antifreeze rather than salt water .... but you're right, it could be either.

Why do you think seawater after a week would be that much worse than coolant? I'd anticipate a thin patina of rust on the bores with seawater and the oil will need changing in either case but everything else should be well coated with oil and should be fine. What have I missed?

Richard
 
I know of an engine in which salt water sat in one cylinder for three weeks. Nothing, including a 500-tonne press, would shift the piston, even after copious lubrication. Of course, you'd expect less corrosion in a third of that time, but...

(In the engine in question, which was otherwise healthy, water was clearly evident in the sump oil, so that would perhaps be the OP's first check.)
 
To answer the OP's question! I've got Bryco of Daventry, a Kubota main dealer, bookmarked for spares, but I've never needed to try them out.
Ebay have some parts eg. pistons, head gaskets etc.
You might need to know your base engine identification. Nanni seem to hide this, Beta tend to use the Kubota model numbering, making cross-referencing easier.
Could always try Beta, might be cheaper than Peachment, they are very helpful over the 'phone, their spares prices aren't wildly OTT.
 
Before the engine had... overheated! (Rushed typing before going to work. Sorry.) It boiled dry and almost seized. I heard the change in note accompanying the overheating, but not the change in note, if there was any, with the absence of exhaust cooling water. It subsequently ran ok for about 60 hours over a fortnight before showing signs of serious ill health (steam, black smoke, labouring and refusing to idle)

Where is the boat now? Back in Shoreham.

From whence do I want to source spares? Anyone not in the Highlands & Islands prepared to sell genuine Kubota stuff at agricultural/industrial prices and pop them in a courier van. Osaka would be just as good as Shoreham if the price were right.

I may be in for new cylinders, cylinder heads and pistons, but hold a forlorn hope that it is just a gasket required. I plan to remove the engine from the boat tomorrow to start investigations.

The engine is fresh water cooled with new antifreeze, so coolant in the cylinder should not have caused much, if any, corrosion. The motor rotates freely (or it did on Sunday) until it meets the water or oil that stops rotation.

My motor is a 2.10 according to Peachment. I rather hope that the Kubota serial numbers have not been ground off by Nanni. We'll see.

Thank you all for your recommendations and I will no doubt be contacting them in the next day or so :0(
 
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.I may be in for new cylinders, cylinder heads and pistons, but hold a forlorn hope that it is just a gasket required. I plan to remove the engine from the boat tomorrow to start investigations.

.My motor is a 2.10 according to Peachment. I rather hope that the Kubota serial numbers have not been ground off by Nanni. We'll see.
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If it helps, I think that the 2.10 base engine will be the Kubota Z482, (best to confirm ). Beta offer versions of 10 & 14 hp, but the difference is the fuel system I believe. Manuals and parts lists can be found on-line.
I think that your hope of just a gasket failure is reasonable, but checking of the head, bores etc. is in order.

Out of interest, just checked Ebay; Head gasket £18, seems a good price. Even a s/h head for sale.
 
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