little help w/ 50hr service

[Highbeam]

I changed my fuel filter once at about 200 hours. I don't know for sure if the CK30 filter is the same as the 45 but I would think the 30's filter housing looked large enough to pass a substantial amount of fuel.

Anyway, it wasn't rocket science. You first get the engine good and warm since the next time you start it may be a little rough on bearings and parts of a cold engine. Then turn the petcock to off. Remove the bowl retainer ring. Wiggle off the bowl (messy for sure). Pull off old filter, push on new filter, refill bowl with diesel and push the bowl back into place slowly so that the filter can absorb some of the diesel. The point of the prefill and slow assembly is to minimize the amount of trapped air in the filer assembly. Put the ring back on and snug it. Now turn the petcock to the "air" setting. Start the still warm engine and get about 1800 rpms so that a hickup in engine rpm won't kill it. Run for 30 seconds. Then without killing the engine, turn the petcock to "on" and let it run for 5 minutes or so at elevated rpms.

Now clean up the huge diesel fuel mess you made. Or go to work and let the fuel go away naturally.

I had no running trouble at all from the air that inevitably gets trapped during the switch. I also cleaned out the bowl before replacement but it had zero sediment.

 

[IslandTractor]

Fiddleback, you are right about the manual, it leaves a lot to be desired. I don't understand why they don't hire someone with a grasp of the English language to write these things. I suppose it all makes sense to them.

That should bring KiotiJohn out of the woodwork. Do I recall correctly that he worked with Kioti to rewrite the manuals? Actually in the US (I see Oleozz ain't) the manuals are passable. Maybe Kioti used the original KorEnglish versions down under.

 

[Oleozz]

Now, now, Island Tractor, are you saying that the state with the first: Hospital, Library, Zoo, Newspaper, Nation's Capital, all motion-picture theatre, and many more firsts (that being good ole Pennsylvania) is not a part of the United States?

 

[TBDonnelly]

Then turn the petcock to off. Remove the bowl retainer ring. Wiggle off the bowl (messy for sure). Pull off old filter, push on new filter, refill bowl with diesel and push the bowl back into place slowly so that the filter can absorb some of the diesel. The point of the prefill and slow assembly is to minimize the amount of trapped air in the filer assembly. Put the ring back on and snug it.

I also cleaned out the bowl before replacement but it had zero sediment.

By any chance..................when you were done changing the fuel filter, did you have a small 'spring' left over?

Don

 

[IslandTractor]

Now, now, Island Tractor, are you saying that the state with the first: Hospital, Library, Zoo, Newspaper, Nation's Capital, all motion-picture theatre, and many more firsts (that being good ole Pennsylvania) is not a part of the United States?

Oops . I was thrown off by the "Ozz" and didn't check your bio. Apologies from Ben Franklin's birth city.

 

[Highbeam]

By any chance..................when you were done changing the fuel filter, did you have a small 'spring' left over?

Don

No, I left the little spring where I found it. Also be sure that the O-rings stay where you find them. There are two, one for the bowl and one for the filter kneck. Just make sure everything goes back as you found it except with a new filter element. The plastic filter bowl magnifies the fuel filter and makes it look way bigger than it really is.

My Honda motorcycle has a replaceable element oil filter with a similar setup so the little spring is pretty typical.