Not so sure this is normal?

[lilranch2001]

I've been mostly lucky my whole life, so I'm not too concerned.

I never get lucky
:thumbdown:

 

[Rail Dawg]

I just did the 50 hr service on my L3800 this morning. Here's what my filter looks like. Just very fine metal on the magnetic ring and not much of it. I would say this is 'more' normal than the one Jewing posted.

That is what my L3800 filter looked like at 50 hrs.

 

[s219]

My B2920 did not have a magnetic ring on the HST filter when I did the 50 hour service, but I took the filter apart out of curiosity. Nothing but fine metallic dust mixed in with the oil, almost like the metal flake in metallic paint.

 

[Bluegill2]

There are probably many more 'normal' filters like the one I posted out there than the bad ones.

 

[lilranch2001]

There are probably many more 'normal' filters like the one I posted out there than the bad ones.

I would certainly hope so, and is that statement really a testimony to Kubotas quality control?

In my humble opinion 1 is way to many, and if 1 home mechanic found a filter like that, how many dealer mechanics found something similar or worse?

 

[jewing3227]

Went to the dealer Saturday and they had 7 gallons of the Super UDT 2 and 2 filters ready for me. I was talking to the survissup about my findings and he said Kubota is waiting to see what the next filter change is gonna bring and if there is any chips, they will "make it right". He wouldn't comment anymore as to what was to come. I have about 4 hours left until the 10 hr mark that i'm changing it at............it pis*ed and poured here today so....

 

[SantasForest]

Run it for another 50 hours....change the fliter and fluid again. Check to see what you find. It should have cleared up, although that seems like an awful lot of filling from machining. We service our tran's every 75-100 hours no matter what the manual says and our equipment runs well for it's age.

 

[moriboy]

I will be doing the 50 hr service on my new M7040 soon. If anything looks funny I will certainly post pics.

 

[don white]

If that is a new machine get it back to the dealer. Those look like machining chips to me. The case was not cleaned out properly. No way would not accept that from a new machine.

 

[Barnone]

Is this normal? I sure hope not.

I've been changing oil/filters on trucks, cars, tractors, motorcycles, and whatever for 59 years and have never seen anything like that first photo in this thread. Oh, and some have been Chinese manufactured and none had anything even remotely close to that bunch of metal.

I would be raising **** at the dealer and at Kubota. I can't believe that some say that is OK.