Kubota cylinder head

[openspaceman]

24 minutes ago, Mick Jones said:

It does look like the head gasket is damaged. If you take the head to your local machine shop and have it pressure tested. They will be able to advise you.

Easier said than done nowadays as all the local auto engineering workshops have gone locally to me. Mind this is the London commuter belt. 

[GA Groundcare]

You have two options really. Clean the head up, chuck a head gasket in and see what happens. At best it'll be a cheap fix, at worst it'll be head back off.

 

Or, strip the head down and take it to a machine shop for pressure testing and skim. We sent a 1505 head off for testing and skim recently. The Kubota engine dealer supplied the upper head set as well and believe the bill was just shy of £500 inc vat.

[spuddog0507]

TBH i woudnt just put a gasket on it as it looks like that has been leaking a while, if its a machine you use a fair bit do the job right regardless of cost, get it skimmed and valves re cut while its off, the V1205 is a good old school engine and was fitted in a lot of machines espeicialy ransom mowers,,if it had been a V1705 i could of helped you out as i have a recon head sat hear,, where abouts in the country are you based ?? i do use 2 engineering shops up hear in Lancashire and both top class places,, i have just had a head refurbed off a David brown 780 3 cylinder skimmed valves re cut and 3 new valves supplied along with all gaskets and it was £186 ,,