Oil & Fuel Oil Filter Cross Reference
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I completely agree, I never said "made". An American company assembling machinery here in America. Best you can get if you are looking to support American jobs.That was my original question is all, What drove the change from American companies to the Kubota. Just curious.
71bronco
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Kubota also manufactures in Geogia http://www.kubota.com/AboutKubota/PressReleases/KubotaNews-KIEGrandOpening-2013.aspx
Jefferson, Ga., (April 8, 2013) Kubota Corporation today announced the grand opening of its new $73 million manufacturing facility at Kubota Industrial Equipment (KIE) in Jefferson, Ga. The 522,000-square-foot plant on the 88-acre site recently began production of Kubota's 30- to 50-horsepower compact tractor models. The grand opening event was co-sponsored by Kubota Tractor Corporation, the U.S. marketer and distributor of Kubota tractors and equipment.
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Fred, I think that's an excellent and necessary place to start. Since you asked, I'd say that the next step is to get some sort of handle on the ways the different media handle flowing oil, and also take a possible error out of the bypass valve force measurement.
It shouldn't be too hard to rig up a way to time how long it takes gravity to push a quart of oil through a filter. A stand pipe with an on/off valve would do it. So would lots of other variations. I kinda like a standing pipe because it can be be pre-loaded with the same oil which could then drain into a bucket to be reused. Or the top of the pipe itself could be connected to something like a large container of compressed air so that the pressure would be more nearly constant as the oil drained. The time it takes to pass a quart of oil would then give us a starting place to compare the different filter material. It's easy to see how different media - even if they have with the same thickness, width, and length - could be wildly different in how they flow and filter based on nothing more complicated than effective pore size.
On the pounds needed to open a spring by-pass valve..... If we are to successfully relate that to the pressure necessary to open a valve it's necessary to include area of whatever the fluid is pushing on along with the real pressure differential over that area. It can fool you; it sure has fooled me from time to time. Pounds on a spring is a good place to start, but keep in mind that to get a real force number out of fluid pressure you need to also look at the area of what is being pushed.
The online debate (ebate?) about the value of being made-in-USA versus out-of-USA manufacturing makes me wonder how future generations will view the regionalism that has become such an important rallying cry for our own generation. Will our children's children see our values as being the "good old days"? Or will they think of our regionalism in the same way we have come to view racism?... Will they look back on regionalism as a kind of "ism" which failed because it emphasized the differences between people instead of the things those people have in common? Or is regionalism a necessary part of what makes us creative?
just wondering,
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tjkubota93
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Deere just seems like a middle man for yanmar, like cub cadet is.
I always try to buy American. Deere is American and they make money when you buy a tractor, so does Yanmar, not American.
mkreitler
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Myself I run PURE POWER FILTERS on EVERYTHING INCLUDEING the race car with a 427C.I. small block CHEVY. The engine in it cost a small fortune to build so why not use the best FILTER.All my other cars,'05 JEEP with a hemi,and the tow vehicle '07.5 CHEVY DURAMAX run them also the best thing about their FILTERS is they are all lifetime and all you have to do in clean them in a parts washer and follow that up with a round in the dish washer and your good to go. The way things are being made cheaper and cheaper(INCLUDEING the PAPER FILTERS) in this country to be more cost effective is not worth it to me.I will spend my money on the best FILTER (PURE- POWER) and OIL (SCHAEFFER'S)
Rocky Hoffler
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Wix filters is IMHO is as good as can get web site is wixfilters.com for cross reference and they are made in N. C.
Rocky Hoffler
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I would not use a fram filter anyway you ask for cross reference here it is in wix who also make napa and carquest filters usally the first 2 numbers are different
OIL 51311
air 42985 and 46438
fuel 33507
trans 57616
hyd 57098
OIL 51311
air 42985 and 46438
fuel 33507
trans 57616
hyd 57098
LD1
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Nothing at all wrong with the higher end fram filters. DG, TG, XG, etc
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Your watch. I wouldn't spend the time on that unless it was dead of winter and I had absolutely nothing else going on in my life.
But some folks just have to know. Just kidding Fred. Your comparison is about the only real world one I've seen so far. :salute:
But back to the original topic, here's one of the best cross reference sites that I've found and it can be used for many types of filters - not just oil.
http://www.michelecaroli.com/donaldson_filters.asp
Even used it once to find the correct hydraulic filter for an Altec AT200A aerial lift because the one on it had been painted over.
