Accessing the oil/fuel filters with loader!

[OkeeDon]

The TC18 is so closely spaced, "hand tight"would be just with the tips of the fingers. I agree with your theory, so I tried it the first time. It leaked. I got in there with the water pump pliers, did the eye-squinting and nose-scrunching thing, got a teensy little "bite" on the ring, and just barely tweaked it tighter. Leak stopped.

Problem is, I put a fair amount of hours on the tractor -- coming up on 700 hours in 29 months. I've had problems with the fuel filters -- they get pretty crummy in 100 hours, and the recommended cleaning is not good enough, so I have to put in a new one each time. I'll be putting in my 7th filter some time next week; that's roughly every 4 months, and I hate thinking about it coming up.

It's my only complaint about the little Chihuahua tractor that thinks it's a German Shepherd.

 

[jinman]

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Don, that fuel filter change interval is really amazing to me. I check my fuel filter with every oil change and I have only changed it once. When I did, the old filter still looked fine. I'm approaching 900 hr and I'm still on my second filter. Do the gas stations if Florida have filters on the pumps? Are you buying red diesel? I've also only replaced the fuel filter on my Dodge Cummins diesel twice, and I'm less than 2,000 miles from 300k miles.