Hydro Filter help/Question

[Code54]

Today I did my 50 Hr service (At 44 Hr - it was a nice day and the cold weather is coming so I figured I would get ahead)
Anyway, when I pulled the hydro filter off my Kubota L3700 HST I had a BUNCH of metal shavings - I mean a BUNCH! Is this normal or is this a possible problem I should be concerned with. Now I do understand it is a good thing the magnet on the filter caught all the junk but there are a fair amount of shavings and some are rather large and that concerned me.
Any thoughts from the mechanics out there?

 

[InThePines]

I am close to the 50 hr as well. How much fluid did you lose and what technique did you try to avoid the loss?

 

[bp fick]

Today I did my 50 Hr service (At 44 Hr - it was a nice day and the cold weather is coming so I figured I would get ahead)
Anyway, when I pulled the hydro filter off my Kubota L3700 HST I had a BUNCH of metal shavings - I mean a BUNCH! Is this normal or is this a possible problem I should be concerned with. Now I do understand it is a good thing the magnet on the filter caught all the junk but there are a fair amount of shavings and some are rather large and that concerned me.
Any thoughts from the mechanics out there?

The "curly" ones would be expected in the machining process.

I would tell myself this is merely debris from the building process. The filter and magnets did their job.

For the cost of the filter, I'd pull it again at 100 hours. Do an additional inspection. Honestly, if your machine is running properly, there isn't anything much to do, in terms of possible repairs. If, may it never happen, that something should fail, you have the warranty for another couple years to fall back on.

If that filter looks clean at 100 hours? You're home free.

 

[Code54]

I stuck the shop vac with the "pointy" attachment in the hydro oil fill area under/behind the rear seat and just turned it on and did the filters. I lost maybe 1/3 of Qt at most. The little window still shows it is full. I also had the filters unboxed, the plastic cap off and sitting right new to where I was working so I had it back on in seconds to help control the amount I lost. Very easy

 

[E/S]

Now you know why you change the filter at 50 hrs !
Don't worry about it, that looks like mostly machine work tailings.
If it bothers you, do like bp fick suggested.

E/S

 

[Goog]

The vacuum cleaner trick worked great on my L3400 when I changed my filter. One thing that was strange on mine was that the original grey HST filter did not have a magnet. I would have liked to have seen what it caught. The new Kubota replacement filter did have a magnet so I guess we will see next time.
If your tractor were mine I would inspect your filter in another 50 hrs. and put a new one on. As others said it looks like turnings from machining. Brian

 

[brain55]

I'd say those are definitely shavings from a machining process and not from something failing. If it were mine, I would dump all of the fluid, and check the filter again in 50 hours. If it were a customers machine I would recommend the same. It is more shavings than what I am used to seeing.

Brian

 

[Chilly807]

Definitely more than was on mine at 50 hours, but like the guys have said, it's mostly machining chips. I just changed mine again today at 114 hours, and only a bit of "steel fur" on the magnet.

How hard was it to get your filter off? Mine was pretty tight the first time, I put the new filter on as per the instructions. I though I wasn't going to get the second one off today without breaking something... I expect I'll have the same battle the next time I change it. If that's the case, then I'll reduce the amount the third one gets tightened and hope for the best.

Sean

 

[tungularafishcamp]

:laughing:
I didnt know about tbn when I did my fifty hr change. I just about **** when I saw all the metal. Called the dealer on the sat. phone but he said it was normal and it was fine the other times since but was a good thrill or maybe not
Rick

 

[LD1]

Are you sure you didn't set the finter down next to the drill press of lathe before you looked at it and saw that

All kidding aside, I really don't know if it is normal but that is WAY more than was on mine @ 50hrs. But if other members have seen similar, maybe it is normal.

But I would definatally change the fluid anyway. I thought the kubota manual called to change all the fluids @ 50hrs and not just the filters????

Either way, I am not a believer in just changing filters. The oil isn't that expensive and doesn't add much to the time involved. If it only calls for a filter, I give it a new filter AND fresh oil.