Bluest
Silver Member
- Joined
- May 3, 2014
- Messages
- 235
- Location
- Whitworth, Lancashire, UK
- Tractor
- Yanmar F14D, DR Wheeled Trimmer
This'll be pretty routine tedious stuff to most of you, but as there is so little info about on the F14D I though it might be useful for any curious owners in the future.
Raising my 3ph was becoming a bit of a noisy and sluggish activity so I thought it was a good time to give the fluid and filters a refresh.
First job was to get a filter, not easy in the UK as there are no Yanmar parts suppliers to speak of, and certainly none that know anything about an F14D. Luckily, the part number was still visible so a bit of Googling found me just one UK merchant listing a cross reference with a stock item.
Original hydraulic filter: Capa CP-145VL-35
Cross referenced equivelent: Baldwin BT371-MPG made in the USA!!!
Onto finding a suitable oil. For some reason I could only find two brands of universal tractor oil widely available here, Fuchs and Morris, both reputable UK based oil blenders. I went for Fuchs Agrifarm STO Plus 10w30 in a 20 litre drum. now the maker claim you can use this as engine oil, as well as gearbox, hydraulic oil, so I'll use what I have left in the motor next time I change that.
So the onto the very easy task of changing the the oil. There are three drain plugs. On on each side of the bottom of the gearbox casing and a larger square plastic one on the left hand side further towards the front of the gearbox. As a first timer, the only thing I needed to be aware of was there is about 11 litres in the system, so have plenty of containers at the ready.
Whilst the oil is trickling out, I removed the hydraulic screen for cleaning. It is accessed from the right hand side of gearbox, thanks to TBNers for helping me find that! A large pipe enters the gearbox casing at a flange with three 10mm bolts. Unscrew the bolts, withdraw the the pipe and the screen comes out with it. You can just pull the screen off the end of the pipe and give the mesh a thorough clean. There is a small o ring that seals the pipe flange to gearbox. In an ideal world I'd have replaced that, but I didn't have one to hand, the old one looked in reasonable condition so I've reused it.
Next up, remove the spin on filter.. Located further forward under the right hand foot board. Near the brake pedals. Now my filter looked like it had never been changed and required a good swing on the chain wrench to get it to move. But move it did and once off I cleaned the sealing face to make sure the new filter wouldn't drip. The new filter went straight back on with just a smear of oil on the seal.
The only thing left is to put the screen back in, replace all the drain plugs and fill with oil. Once it's topped up to the top of the dipstick, I ran the engine and operated the 3ph for a short while. On stopping and checking the level it had dropped by about a litre, so I topped up and we are all done. Easy!
Raising my 3ph was becoming a bit of a noisy and sluggish activity so I thought it was a good time to give the fluid and filters a refresh.
First job was to get a filter, not easy in the UK as there are no Yanmar parts suppliers to speak of, and certainly none that know anything about an F14D. Luckily, the part number was still visible so a bit of Googling found me just one UK merchant listing a cross reference with a stock item.
Original hydraulic filter: Capa CP-145VL-35
Cross referenced equivelent: Baldwin BT371-MPG made in the USA!!!
Onto finding a suitable oil. For some reason I could only find two brands of universal tractor oil widely available here, Fuchs and Morris, both reputable UK based oil blenders. I went for Fuchs Agrifarm STO Plus 10w30 in a 20 litre drum. now the maker claim you can use this as engine oil, as well as gearbox, hydraulic oil, so I'll use what I have left in the motor next time I change that.
So the onto the very easy task of changing the the oil. There are three drain plugs. On on each side of the bottom of the gearbox casing and a larger square plastic one on the left hand side further towards the front of the gearbox. As a first timer, the only thing I needed to be aware of was there is about 11 litres in the system, so have plenty of containers at the ready.
Whilst the oil is trickling out, I removed the hydraulic screen for cleaning. It is accessed from the right hand side of gearbox, thanks to TBNers for helping me find that! A large pipe enters the gearbox casing at a flange with three 10mm bolts. Unscrew the bolts, withdraw the the pipe and the screen comes out with it. You can just pull the screen off the end of the pipe and give the mesh a thorough clean. There is a small o ring that seals the pipe flange to gearbox. In an ideal world I'd have replaced that, but I didn't have one to hand, the old one looked in reasonable condition so I've reused it.
Next up, remove the spin on filter.. Located further forward under the right hand foot board. Near the brake pedals. Now my filter looked like it had never been changed and required a good swing on the chain wrench to get it to move. But move it did and once off I cleaned the sealing face to make sure the new filter wouldn't drip. The new filter went straight back on with just a smear of oil on the seal.
The only thing left is to put the screen back in, replace all the drain plugs and fill with oil. Once it's topped up to the top of the dipstick, I ran the engine and operated the 3ph for a short while. On stopping and checking the level it had dropped by about a litre, so I topped up and we are all done. Easy!
