50 hour service...what size is that strainer head?

[Lockport]

I was doing my 50 hour service (surprised the shroud came off without removing the grill guard) and got it all done with very limited spillage. [/forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif did a genset and car just before so well warmed up]. Anyway, besides the fact I bought the Japanese filters for my Kubota Genset, $99 for a half dozen, earlier in the day and then off to the dealer where he begins explaining about how on the tractor the black oil filters are from Japan, but he has these white ones that are made in North America and they are only $5.99. Great deal. Meanwhile. back at the ranch as I removed the factory filter, surprise, surprise, I discover they are the same as those on my genset! Besides a new alternative for the genset at 1/4 the price, a closer look, however, does reveals what appears to be a quality in the blacks in unison with what one would find in a synthetic filter. I would be curious to cut each open.
So here's my question. I got everything done except refill with SUDT (dealer had the pails! 22 liters) when I realized I do not have a socket large enough for the filter screen bolt head. That is it, isn't it, gentlemen? That huge bolt head just rear and beneath the axle? Anyone know what size it is? I took a brief pull with a vice grip but dug into it and it didn't even move. /forums/images/graemlins/confused.gif /forums/images/graemlins/confused.gif

By the way, oil filter vice grips are the trick for those factory tightened filters. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[Garrabo]

i think its one inch or one and 3 -16ths

 

[Lockport]

Thanks. I'll have to call the dealer and get its specifics as it seems I will need to purchase a larger socket.

 

[strokerduster]

take a crescent wrench , put it on the nut and adjust till tight, measure between flats and thats the size socket you need.

 

[Lockport]

I don't even have a crescent wrench that large. Closest thing I have is a pipe wrench and I wouldn't trust that measurement.

 

[strokerduster]

a pipe wrench and vice grips. guess we know what to get you for xmas.........

 

[CampMan]

Back a while ago someone gave the size of the strainer bolt head in MM.. Not sure that the subject was. I read it myself and wanted to remember it... Now I've forgotten, whats new.

 

[Lockport]

It's a 27mm /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[LBrown59]

<font color="red">26 M M </font>

 

[LBrown59]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( Back a while ago someone gave the size of the strainer bolt head in MM.. )</font>

That was me.
<font color="red"> It's 26MM </font>

 

[LBrown59]

<font color="blue">1* (surprised the shroud came off without removing the grill guard)
3*By the way, oil filter vice grips are the trick for those factory tightened filters.
5* It's a 27mm

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1*Why take the shroud off? I never do!
3* There isn't enough room for the handles so how do you remove the engine oil filter with them?
I've found the best tool for that is the filter wrench that has 3 claws or fingers.
5* 27 mm may fit over the head but<font color="red"> 26 MM is the correct size.
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[Lockport]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">(
1*Why take the shroud off? I never do!)</font>

Is there room? I didn't think there would be room. I just went by the manual anyway.

</font><font color="blue" class="small">(
3* There isn't enough room for the handles so how do you remove the engine oil filter with them?
I've found the best tool for that is the filter wrench that has 3 claws or fingers.)</font>

I got it in there. 'Course I had the shroud off. There was just enough room to turn it about an inch befor hitting the hydraulic lines when approaching from the bottom. You could probably do it with the shroud on, just hard to see.

</font><font color="blue" class="small">(
5* 27 mm may fit over the head but<font color="red"> 26 MM is the correct size. </font>)</font>

Is it 26MM? 27MM worked just fine, course I had
"bit" it with vice grips that may have helped. /forums/images/graemlins/cool.gif

 

[bikemiser]

According to my BX manual you don't have to clean the strainer screen at 50 hrs.. Not until 300 hrs. /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif

 

[18KwPower]

You should really clean the strainer more often than 300hrs. The most metal/particles that wear free in the tractor are during the first 25-30 hours of use.

I like the shell rotella with soot protection for my motor.

BTW, its perfectly acceptable to just change the filter and clean the screen occasionally on the trans axle. Given the cost of Super UDT it's an alternative...

-Dave

 

[SCB]

I have 560 hours on my bx and have done all the oil changes at factory specified intervals and I have never had my shroud off. Here is the wrench that I use. And yes, It is a 26 MM head on the strainer bolt. Wrench