Oil & Fuel BX24 Time for new anti freeze

[RMatty]

I used the antifreeze from John Deere in my BX2350.
https://jdparts.deere.com/partsmkt/document/english/pmac/5686_fb_AntiFreezeCoolGard.htm

 

[5030]

Think I'd flush the system and switch to purple extended life and not worry about changing it again.:thumbsup:

 

[Garybake]

Any cross contamination by ethylene glycol (green) and long life (purple) will cause ineffiecency of heat transfer or cause coolant protection loss and overheating. In the engine dyno labs when automobile companies switched over to long life we had to flush the systems with water and TSP (Tri Sodium Phospate) to scrub reminants of coolant out before refilling with long life. Purple will not hurt green as much as green will damage purple. It will destroy aluminum radiators rapidly depositing the chemicals on the iron block. I do not know if Kubota uses copper or aluminum radiators but I would stick to manufacture reccomend because they run so darn hot freeze protection is not as compramised.

 

[Garybake]

Came across a cool pic from 84' of a aluminum 2.8 liter putting out 300hp. When we all jumped on turbos for power out of 4cyl. economy engines.

 

[5030]

Any cross contamination by ethylene glycol (green) and long life (purple) will cause ineffiecency of heat transfer or cause coolant protection loss and overheating. In the engine dyno labs when automobile companies switched over to long life we had to flush the systems with water and TSP (Tri Sodium Phospate) to scrub reminants of coolant out before refilling with long life. Purple will not hurt green as much as green will damage purple. It will destroy aluminum radiators rapidly depositing the chemicals on the iron block. I do not know if Kubota uses copper or aluminum radiators but I would stick to manufacture reccomend because they run so darn hot freeze protection is not as compramised.

Gee, I stated to flush the system. We use Calgon.

You can also go with extended life orange and some of those are compatible with ethylene/propolyene glycol.

Kubota's have aluminum radiators with sonic welded upper and lower expansion tanks.

 

[Garybake]

Sorry 5030!
Not meant towards your mechanical abilities (It was late, should have been asleep) but rather a mention towards the importance of good draining of block/radiator when switching what was factory fill. From what I read it sacres me to think dealers are not aware and do not recomend what is factory fill and people are using whats available. Then have trouble getting to block drain and using lower radiator hose.
You know what your talking about to me!:thumbsup:

 

[peterc38]

I used the antifreeze from John Deere in my BX2350.
https://jdparts.deere.com/partsmkt/document/english/pmac/5686_fb_AntiFreezeCoolGard.htm

Aren't you concerned that the orange paint might take on a green hue?