How to use MarineDieselXRef

Find your engine, read the base-engine line, open the industrial list, and use a part page as a lookup.

What this page is for

I've put this together so you can look up a marine diesel part and find the cheaper industrial or aftermarket number. The useful bit is a page that names that number and says how sure I am of the match. The Amazon and eBay buttons are optional. Use them if they're handy.

Here's a Beta 38 walk-through because it's a clean Kubota V1505 story. Swap in your marque.

Step 1. Open the engine page

From home, search the model name. Or open Engines. Or pick the marque card (Beta Marine) and tap beta-38.

Bookmark /beta-marine/engine/beta-38 if you like. That's the engine page.

Read, in order:

Spec chips (hp, displacement, years).
The base-engine paragraph.

On the 38, that paragraph names a Kubota V1505. That's the whole point of the page. If I haven't sourced a mapping yet, that paragraph isn't there. Then see how to identify the base engine.

Step 2. Industrial / tractor equivalents

On engines with a linked tractor catalogue, a button opens the industrial parts list. That's the tractor book for that block: pistons, filters, gaskets, bearings.

Copy a Kubota number from that list. Then check it.

If the list is empty, the base-engine line may still be there. I can know the block without having loaded the tractor book yet.

Step 3. A part page with other numbers

Search a number you already have (stamped on a filter, printed in a Beta list). A useful part page shows more than one number for the same physical part. That can be Beta OEM, Kubota, WIX, maybe Fleetguard. Each row has a grade. If it says Unverified, treat it as a lead.

Prefer to start from the wear item? Open the oil filter chart. For the 38, Kubota HH164-32430 / WIX 51307 is already on that chart. Same family supersedes toward HH1C0-32430. Fleetguard LF3706 and Beta 211-70510/02 sit in that family.

Step 4. Impeller: measure, then chart

Open the pump. Measure OD, width, blades and drive. Then use the impeller chart.

Group A (653-0001) and Group B (1210-0001) are two pump families.

Step 5. Hardware you still buy as marine

Heat exchanger, raw-water pump body, marine gearbox, wet elbow: what you still buy as a marine part. Mixing those with Kubota internals is the usual expensive mistake.

Corrections

If a number looks wrong, email the part number and what it should be. Or use the part-page buttons (confirm fitment / report error). Methodology is how the grades work. About is who's behind it.

FAQ

Why did an ad send me here? If a paid ad brought you in, start with why marine diesels are marinized tractor engines. Then come back to this walk-through.

Do I need JavaScript? Engine, part, guide, about, privacy and contact pages are ordinary HTML. If a brand page ever shows only "Loading…", that's a bug. Tell me.

Affiliate buttons? Optional. The page still works if you never click them.

I pull these numbers from public catalogues and third-party lists. They can be wrong. Check against an official source before you order. Methodology · All guides.