Do your own Fluids and Filters on a BX

[zoltanthegypsy]

Just did the 300yr on my '24. Easy peasy.

Raised the tail end just a bit and took the rear wheels off. I've got Bro Tek crunch plates and they can stay on w/ the wheels off - easy to reach the HST filter and easier to access the strainer. Didn't remove the engine shroud. Wasn't necessary to get at the oil filter.

No muss, no fuss.. the hardest part was writing the check for all that SUDT2...

Z.

[edit] 300hr, not 300 yr. These Kubotas are durable but that might be stretching it a bit...

 

[JOHNTHOMAS]

Just did the 300yr on my '24. Easy peasy.

Raised the tail end just a bit and took the rear wheels off. I've got Bro Tek crunch plates and they can stay on w/ the wheels off - easy to reach the HST filter and easier to access the strainer. Didn't remove the engine shroud. Wasn't necessary to get at the oil filter.

No muss, no fuss.. the hardest part was writing the check for all that SUDT2...

Z.

Thanks for input of how you actually done it. I also need to adjust brake pedal travel so I think I'm going to try your way. Much better contribution than look at owners manual.

 

[bunyip]

[edit] 300hr, not 300 yr. These Kubotas are durable but that might be stretching it a bit...

Bugger, think of the money I could save....

 

[columbian]

In 2004, having spent all 58 of my previous years in cities, I moved to 5 acres in SW Washington. After 2 years I figured out I needed a Tractor, and got a 2230. With no dealer closer than an hour away, and not having a trailer or a hitch, I learned how to maintain it on the fly. Doing spring maintenance with my daughter became a ritual. It was one of the best times, and I was always glad to think she was getting a great education in common sense. We did this until she went to college, and then a job in the big city, 1000 miles away.

We drive the tractor up onto 2" concrete pavers (stacked 2/wheel), put the emergency brake on and leave it in gear, and always pull the mower deck. We change the fluids and filters, according to the manual schedule. Except I still don't have a good way to change the fuel filters without getting gas all over me. We did it every year since, except the years when I've been sick after she left.

She's coming home later this month, for her first visit in a couple of years, and JT, I just sent her your picture from page 1 of this thread, of your mower deck up on its back edge, so she knows what's in her future.

Great thread, guys. Keep it up.

 

[zoltanthegypsy]

Probably already mentioned several times in this thread... these can help with the fuel mess when changing filters. Work a little better than my small vice-grips.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002YKHRUK/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1

 

[columbian]

Sweet, Zolan. Thanks!

 

[JOHNTHOMAS]

Just did the 300yr on my '24. Easy peasy.

Raised the tail end just a bit and took the rear wheels off. I've got Bro Tek crunch plates and they can stay on w/ the wheels off - easy to reach the HST filter and easier to access the strainer. Didn't remove the engine shroud. Wasn't necessary to get at the oil filter.

No muss, no fuss.. the hardest part was writing the check for all that SUDT2...

Z.

[edit] 300hr, not 300 yr. These Kubotas are durable but that might be stretching it a bit...

Have traded my 50 hour BX2370-1 to my brother for his BX1500 and cash which I'm trading to Barlows with some of the cash for a ZG724. I told my brother I'd do 50 hour service and tried the no removal of deck method and it worked. Jacked up rear tire of BX and removed hood shroud. Engine oil filter is smallest I've ever seen on any Kubota:confused2: do my filter removal tools were all to big so BIG pliers had to come out of toolbox and they worked OK. Oil pan fit under tractor fine for dropping fluids and refilled with Kubota 5/40 oil or 15/40? Removed right rear tire and could feel the hyd filter right behind a metal flat bar, removed it with filter removal strap tool and replaced it easy peasy. Greased deck fittings and removed other tire because I couldn't find the round filter screen behind the tire...on either side. There was a round sealed slot where a screen could have been installed but not there. I've cleaned a few of these over the years so yes i know what and where to look. I've actually never had one have enough filings to have made it worth removing before. The screen is/was first line filter and then the other remove and replace hyd filter is second line filter so I'm not to concerned about it's not being there.
It's a close decision whether to remove deck or not. If one wants to sharpen/check blades then for sure remove deck but if for some reason one isn't wanting to do that the tire and shroud removal method seems to work fine. I don't think I could have reached the engine oil filter without removing the shroud because I couldn't even find the filter till I did. Now that I know for sure where the tiny mini filter is hidden with multiple wires and other "stuff" up against it there is a possibility I could change it with loosening the two knobs and just pulling shroud off but I think I'll just pull the shroud and get to that tiny filter.
Wrote date and hours on both filter ends with magic marker as I always do when I change filters.
Did not change fuel filter(s) and rarely do unless they start reducing fuel flow which hasn't happened in hundreds of hours on my machines.
I have the clamp on grease tool and it wouldn't fit the fittings on the deck wheels due to the curve of fitting and straight length of my clamp it fiting so going to tell brother to grease his deck wheels with his grease gun.

 

[JOHNTHOMAS]

One of my best posts and viewed and appreciated by many. Still many BX owners out there doing their own fluid and filter service, very simple job for the slightly agile.

 

[Tractor Seabee]

Probably already mentioned several times in this thread... these can help with the fuel mess when changing filters. Work a little better than my small vice-grips.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002YKHRUK/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1

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Simple solution on fuel filter change for stopping flow of fuel.. Install a valve ahead of first filter like I did. Secondary plus is use it if tractor is unattended to prevent theft.

Ron

 

[sixdogs]

One of my best posts and viewed and appreciated by many. Still many BX owners out there doing their own fluid and filter service, very simple job for the slightly agile.

I've passed along this thread to a couple guys and they now do their own service. They were actually going to pay big bucks for things they could do themselves.

This thread is now an impressive 50 pages and 500 posts long.