Shortest oil filter for Yanmar?

California · Jun 19, 2014

Bah. Stranger and stranger. The guy I bought this YM186D from said he had just put on a Hoye oil filter. He included an unopened new one.

Today I discovered the generic white filter on the tractor is an inch longer than any common filter for this model. Likely its a Wix 1568 (4.072") mentioned by Winston. No wonder the power steering cylinder bumps it.

Meanwhile the Hoye filter that the seller included is just under 3 1/4". I'm pretty sure its a 1334 (3.194"). When I put this correct filter on, the interference problem will go away. Thanks everyone for the good advice and please excuse me for starting a snipe hunt.

And (way off topic

) the reason it took so long to identify the dented filter? I was stuck at home in town tracing why the upstairs lights had quit. I spent part of several days in the hot attic, 3 ft of headspace down the center, raising the plywood flooring and pulling up insulation to see where the wiring went. I finally discovered the feed ran to the center of the attic for distribution rather than starting at the edge by the panel. The specific problem was a wire nut - installed by a licensed electrician - that didn't have its feed wire twisted around the other wires. The feed wire had simply fallen out. Glad I didn't hire a professional electrician at commercial rates to troubleshoot this. That would have been expensive and pointless when the job was 99% moving around too many boxes of Christmas decorations and 30-year-old kindergarten drawings to reach and remove the 4x8ft flooring panels; 1% real electrical work.

Then I get out here to the ranch last night ... no water. The well pump was last replaced in the 70's so this looks expensive. Poking around with a voltmeter I noticed the pressure switch was stuck open and then noticed with zero water pressure, the pressure gauge was stuck on 60 psi. Rust had blocked the quarter inch pipe up to the gauge and pressure switch. I replaced the little pipe. Water was back on in under a half hour. Wife thinks I'm a genius, two pro-grade repairs in two weeks.

Then this morning I discover a new spring watering the garden. Broken pipe underground. I can put a clamp on it, but maybe I should have followed Dad's advice. He often advised just bulldoze the old simple structures here and start fresh. I like the 1920's feel of this farmhouse but it sure takes a lot of maintenance. I learned carpentry here helping maintain it but years later things are still failing apart about as fast as I can repair them.

[Later] I dug through the boxes of inherited treasures and junk in the back of the barn and found the pipe repair clamp I needed. Dug out and fixed the underground pipe. The washing machine now has water. Wife is happy. And I have a few more gray hairs. Maybe I should have rolled in a double-wide prefab home here instead of this endlessly repairing cute fragile stuff.

Don't think I'll buy a lottery ticket soon.

What the heck did I do to deserve this karma?

normde2001 · Jun 23, 2014

"The specific problem was a wire nut - installed by a licensed electrician - that didn't have its feed wire twisted around the other wires. The feed wire had simply fallen out."

When I was in the cash register/computer biz we were taught to make a good mechanical connection, (twist), then solder, all permanent wire connections, then tape or wire nut, as appropriate.

careyo63 · Jun 23, 2014

Having worked in the Graphic's Printing Ind. for over 30 Yrs. As a Multi color sheetfed Pressman I've printed a few 100.000 books.

with most of the equipment in the shop made in Germany you learn not to through anything away that still may be needed. Rained in so just ran to the shed and found a old Orig. Filter that was still in my Parts box. for the 2000. So I'm sure it came from fredricks most likely. White with Grn. overspray.
B52779C Made in Thailand. 3"

California · Jun 23, 2014

normde2001 said:
we were taught to make a good mechanical connection, (twist), then solder, all permanent wire connections, then tape or wire nut

Apparently that was once the standard here. The barn has junctions of woven-cover Romex up in the rafters that are twisted, soldered, taped. Some of the tape-covered connections are out in the open.

More way-off-topic.

Like I said, what did I do to deserve this?

The pipe I repaired with a clamp in the post above, leaked at another spot the next morning. Digging there I discovered massive rust and two leaks, a foot away from a repair clamp I installed in 2002. That line was new about 1978 so I expected it would last longer than it has. It served only the inactive vegetable garden so I just capped it.

Then I noticed water under the car. Broken radiator hose? No, its another underground pipe leaking. This is the water main feeding the barn (& washing machine) then onward to the garden. The old work here was so half-a**** that the only shutoff is where it enters the barn, none where this line branches off from the house line at the pump. I will have to kill the house water to work on it.

I wonder if all this damage - four underground leaks - was caused by overpressure last week when the pump's pressure switch couldn't sense line pressure, all caused by that rust-plugged stub pipe feeding the pressure switch. But overall, the ranch plumbing is falling apart. Clearly galvanized pipe isn't standing up to conditions here - high iron content, high acidity. Neighbors who built in the 70's say they have already replaced their entire systems. Maybe schedule 80 plastic works better? I should start a new thread to learn modern piping standards.

Carey - if that YM2000 oil filter is from Fredricks its probably part # 1334 in their catalog. I assume that's a standard Wix etc 1334 (Honda, Nissan, Subaru) filter.

careyo63 · Jun 23, 2014

OF-1334 Oil filter, spin-on – 3.19” tall F20, F175, 135,
155, 195, 240, 1300, 1301, 1400, 1500, F18
Repl. 119660-35150, 129150-35150 &
129150-35151

FWIW here's what they show now. Mine is closer to 2.7/8" It's over 7yrs. old and Spalding may have put it on. It was Bought ASIS. so who knows were the overspray came from? I kept it because I switched to a Fram Steve gave me the # for. You had to take the Side cover OFF to get to the old filter. I have a pair of Filter Pliers and it was still hard to get to.