2018 Kubota U-35 Mini Excavator

There were quite a few machines to check at the site today. It took me about 30 minutes to check this Kubota U35. The first place I checked was the engine compartment.The engine bay is dry, no wet spots under the pump, coolant reservoir is at normal level and the air cleaner looks like it was recently serviced in addition to being strange that the hose connections in the area were also not dirty when I ran my hands around them. Not smoking. Engine idles at the proper speed. Meta: cab was cleaner than I had thought for a used machine, seat didn’t have any tears, joysticks didn’t have to be cleaned out, floor had light dust.

I slowed down, looked and looked hard on the tracks. That is, under there seemed dry – OK, I went down there again and looked at the travel motors all over and the lower part of the frame – just old packed dust there, no oil stains and no wet towing rings around the motor seals. Clean. Blade cylinder rod is also quite dry. Blade cutting edge has worn through the paint on the bottom face, be wary of what is bare metal scoring (normal use) but it’s been working.Bucket is interesting. The four center teeth and the bolted side cutters along with the tips are just worn down a bit, either replaced or that this machine hasn’t been used in hard material in awhile, hard to determine. Except for the Scooping Recovery Treatment on the cosmetic surfaces, Bucket Body was the same as the rest of the machine was with actual, in service digging scuffing on the wear surface at the centre curve, whatever the cosmetic work might say! They pinned on the boom and arm were tight, didn’t see any slop as I watched it go through a cycle. Overall this is an adequate machine with no apparent problems at this moment.