Left fuel cap off 5045E---now what?

[LouNY]

Thanks Lou. I get tired of looking up stuff all the time. I considered the priming pump but with mine I don't nned it as I have the priming pump on the engine mount primary filter anyway. When I installed mine, all I did was fill the filter and attached bowl with clean filtered diesel and screwed it on to the base and then fired the engine up and opened the bypass bleed knob for a couple minutes to evacuate any air that was left.

Probably do the same when I change the filters. Bought a couple extra anyway.

I had downloaded the RACOR catalog after I got my last factory filters for my Branson I have two spares now so no hurry but at $60 for an element I have been thinking about a different setup and I like the idea of the bowl heaters that are available also.

 

[5030]

I had downloaded the RACOR catalog after I got my last factory filters for my Branson I have two spares now so no hurry but at $60 for an element I have been thinking about a different setup and I like the idea of the bowl heaters that are available also.

The ones I bought, the bottom clear bowl has a threaded (and plugged) boss for that or a 'water in fuel sensor', both of which Racor sells. I might do as you are thinking with the bowl heater this winter myself on the cab tractor as it does plow duty in the winter (with your recommended high buck chains) on the front wheels...lol ...and both mine are mounted on the frame rail right out there unprotected.

I've never had jelled fuel issue yet, but there is always a first time.

The other one never leaves the barn in the winter except for a monthly start up.

The ones on Amazon (at least the Conus ones) are a dead match for the Racor units and painted to, not mill finish.

I went with genuine Racor filters because I know they will do exactly what they are supposed to do.

I've actually got a bit of water in the bowls since I installed them I presume any tank crud is in the filter media.

I see the NWS is predicting heavier than average snowfall this winter so I expect I'll be plowing a bit and probably using the blower too. I AM NOT looking forward to any of it at all.

 

[newbury]

You are an environmental nightmare. You have now created an EPA superfund site. Think of all the creeks and water wells that your fuel is getting into. Just kidding, my fuel cap has been a zip lock bag and a rubber band for years now.

I always used a cheap sandwich bag
/edit - with a good rubber band.

 

[5030]

I always used a cheap sandwich bag
/edit - with a good rubber band.

Puts me in mind of seeing some driver going down the road with a rag stuffed in their filler neck. Usually a beater.

 

[Raul-02]

Here you go straight from Racor for $226

thanks for that.
That looks a lot like the water extractor filter that came factory installed on my koiti.

 

[Hay Dude]

thanks for that.
That looks a lot like the water extractor filter that came factory installed on my koiti.

Thats impressive. Kubota’s water removal is really weak. It needs to be re-engineered with something that gives the owner more assurance the $1,100 injectors are protected than what’s on mine. The one on my 126HP Kubota looks like a lawn mower filtration system.

 

[5030]

Thats impressive. Kubota’s water removal is really weak. It needs to be re-engineered with something that gives the owner more assurance the $1,100 injectors are protected than what’s on mine. The one on my 126HP Kubota looks like a lawn mower filtration system.

I agree and why I refitted both of mine to the Racor style separator. Having said that I understand that the new T4 final Kubota's are coming equipped with a Racor style filter. Said before, I don't know when it was added (timeframe) or who makes it for Kubota or on which T4 models it's coming on, just know it's there now. Far as I'm concerned an additional 70 bucks total for everything and a bit of time to install one is much cheaper than even one new injector.

The stock Kubota final fuel filter (brass screen in a vertical clear cylinder of limited capacity is a joke) even with the spin on cartridge primary filter that only passes down to 80 microns.

 

[workinonit]

Can you tell me how that is done. I have seen no strainer when I look in.

The strainer is on the fuel outlet elbow that screws in the tank. Mine is about 4" long and doesn't exist anymore.

 

[Hay Dude]

Kubota entire fuel system needed reengineering.
I had a fuel leak develop on one of my tanks. Dropped shields to find leak. The metal shield vibrating and shifting while going over bumps for years pressed against the plastic nipple and cracked it.
Genius engineering.

 

[newbury]

Puts me in mind of seeing some driver going down the road with a rag stuffed in their filler neck. Usually a beater.

Yup, but to me it's a big difference between a rag in a car tank filler neck and a plastic baggie over my tractor's filler neck. On both my tractors the filler neck is dead center in front of me. On most of my cars, past and present the filler tank is on one side or another, and stuffing a rag in it could be the start of cocktail hour, molotov cocktail.