Oil & Fuel L3400 100hr change fuel filter?

[Green Acres Homestead]

Do most people really clean or change there fuel filter every 100 hours. I use to bring my tractor to the dealership every 200 or 400 hundred hours. I believe they changed it once a year and I put on 400 hour per year. Now that I moved to Cape Breton Nova Scotia and the dealership is 100 km away I decided to do my own maintenance so started reading my maintenance schedule. So by the looks of this thread I should be cleaning or changing my fuel filter every 100 hours.

Any comments?

 

[k0ua]

Do most people really clean or change there fuel filter every 100 hours. I use to bring my tractor to the dealership every 200 or 400 hundred hours. I believe they changed it once a year and I put on 400 hour per year. Now that I moved to Cape Breton Nova Scotia and the dealership is 100 km away I decided to do my own maintenance so started reading my maintenance schedule. So by the looks of this thread I should be cleaning or changing my fuel filter every 100 hours.

Any comments?

Your supposed to, but let me ask you this, get down and really look at it. How nasty does it look? Some diesel is a lot dirtier than others. If it looks really good, you might let it go. If it looks anything like the one in this thread.. I suggest you change it. Retroactively.

http://www.tractorbynet.com/forums/parts-repairs/311541-keep-your-fuel-filter-clean.html?highlight=

 

[Rocky Hoffler]

Do most people really clean or change there fuel filter every 100 hours. I use to bring my tractor to the dealership every 200 or 400 hundred hours. I believe they changed it once a year and I put on 400 hour per year. Now that I moved to Cape Breton Nova Scotia and the dealership is 100 km away I decided to do my own maintenance so started reading my maintenance schedule. So by the looks of this thread I should be cleaning or changing my fuel filter every 100 hours.

Any comments?

They are not expensive especially if you use wix and not that hard to change. I buy 2 at the time and keep one with me just in case. plus these filters are not the cleanable type needs to be replaced.