Painted filters

[Deano]

The two spare filters I have on hand-
a grey trans filter and a black oil filter-

Neither has anything printed on the filters themselves. Both were bought sometime after I bought the tractor in July 07....so yes there are genuine Kubota filters new with no writing on them.

Thank you Skyco for clearing that up. As I said in my first post, I kknow my tractor and my neighbors had GRAY filters installed on them at 50 hours (I changed them myself) and were NOT painted on the transmission at the factory.:thumbsup:
As I said before, that does not mean they were NOT changed....

Deano

 

[bp fick]

Bottom line, since you bought the tractor second hand without a meaningful service history, you'll never know one way or the other.

As you said, you'll change everything, including the tar like oil, and move on. It'll likely be just fine. Changing the engine oil a bit early next time also seems like a very good idea. How about those fuel filters?

 

[helvit]

We have reliable reports here that sometimes plain gray replacement filters come in part-numbered branded boxes these days. I'll go with the positive probability that rational maintenance was not neglected after all. "Never know" is right. I'll take the fact that nothing's wrong as a good sign.

I changed the fuel filter under the hood (looked crappy) now with links to the parts manual exploded diagrams I see the second is the same part. Ordered a couple, and that will get done when I install the Bro-tek front and rear plates, on order. My woods is rough with down branches, ancient cedar stump remnants, boulders and rocks. Cleaning up, especially working out ancient clumps of briar and rosa rugosa, the BX1500 maneuvers well in there and is doing everything I need her to do. Great little machine! You'd have to be crazy to not keep up with your basic maintenance .

 

[BeezFun]

I'll give you another data point for grey filters from the dealer. My first hydraulic filter came in a box with japanese writing all over it, and it was grey. Parts guy said it drove them nuts because if it wasn't in the box you couldn't tell what it was for because there was no writing on it. The HST filter bought at the same time was blue with white writing.