I'm an "old guy". Got to love those old experienced guys. Just have to. We stand up for "this is how my grand dad did it, this is how my dad did it and by golly this is how I'm going to do it and my kids and grand kids and every body they know is going to do it the same way because it has always worked.....except for the times it didn't.
I'm an "old guy" by the calendar. If I were a "real" old guy I'd still change my car/truck oil at 3000 miles and cringe now when I don't. Start sweating at every mile over 3000. Can't hardly sleep, can't quit watching the odometer and every mile over 3000 makes my heart skip a beat. I've also won't get in a car with over 60000 miles and for sure will never drive one. I see ads for vehicles for sell with over 100,000 and even over 200,000 miles and I just start laughing that anyone would believe that anyone would pay a cent over scrape metal money for them. My younger friends, aquaintenances just shake their heads and line up for my used vehicles when I decide to sell them. I remember when a vehicle with 60,000 miles had to be pushed just about every time you wanted to start it, smoke boiled out of the tail pipe and those new fangled automatics took about 12 guys pushing at 45 mph to ever get one started. Course we all changed our oil at or before 3000 miles. Wonder how vehicles are getting over 60,000 miles now and idiots only changing the oil at 4500, 6000 and even 7500 miles????
My daughter told me a guy at a gas station told her to quit filling her gas tank when it automatically shuts off and don't keep trying to get more gas in it. Some men think women are stupid and will believe anything and that's what I told her when she told me about it.:thumbsup: BUT.....later I was watching Motor Week and Pat Goss the Master Mecanic that studies, apparently, new ways instead of sticking with the old ways said to quit filling your gas tank when the pump kicks off
because the dreaded EPA doesn't want gas fumes polluting the air and made auto manuf remove the drip tube at the gas filler hole and make the over flowing gas return to the engine via a tube that goes thru a filter (a very expensive filter) that gets ruined if it gets saturated with gas thus stop filling the gas hole when the pump quits.:ashamed: :ashamed: I did tell my daughter that I was giving her good advise but the stranger at the pump gave her more up to date advise.
Now I'll listen to "old guys" and often times will ask them the basis for their sage advise, even when they do it for a living and have for years and may even be the head mechanic, computer master, etc, etc. They often times get hot with me and then I know that mostly they don't really know why they do it other than they always have or someone told them to years ago that knew what they were talking about.
Now we can blame the government, enviromentalists, money grubbing Companies, aliens, karma, Mom, Dad or even sister but we have to listen to someone concerning "stuff" we don't know about. I've bought 17 Kubotas in 11 years and I've read a lot about Kubotas and talked a lot with owners and a dealer and the dealers mechanics and still feel I'm not as knowledgeable about Kubotas as I would like to be and hope to eventually know more. How many people have given me "crap" advise as if they rec'd it from God Himself.... several, so I'm a skeptic when listening but I will listen along with research and asking more than one person and then sit down and ponder the info I've come up with.
Guys, things change and at such a rapid pace that a specialist that's all knowing is lost in tall cotton a year or a few months or a few days later if they don't do constant ongoing learning.
I change my motor oil, front axle lube, hyd fluids and all filters when the owners manual that was printed for my specific machine and hope it's not just a universal reprinted owners manual that hasn't been revised since 1983. I've only changed one fuel filter and it was because I could see the dissolved parts of the black rubber ring that fell into the fuel tank from around the fuel lid and the motor would keep dying.
Any way, all you "old guys" stick to your story that you learned from a master when you were a teenager and do those changes and what the hay it's cheap insurance especially after paying so much for the machine.:cool2:
