What brand filters and engine oil in your kubotas?

   / What brand filters and engine oil in your kubotas? #81  
C4Ranch, thanks for the link to Wix, I wonder if I can trust the fit with the cross ref. no., on the oil and fuel filter, looks like a $30.00 dollar experiment.
Know wonder we go to the Kubota dealer's, just take 2 hours of time on a Sat. morning, go up to the desk, wait in line, then tell the expert desk jockey I want this that and the other thing and wah-lah all the filters for my tractor are on the desk and guaranteed to fit.

Next ?, does anyone change the oil plug washer gasket, the last time I changed the oil, I had to tighten one oil plug really hard to stop the oil from seeping out, don't like tightening the plug that hard.
 
   / What brand filters and engine oil in your kubotas? #82  
C4Ranch, thanks for the link to Wix, I wonder if I can trust the fit with the cross ref. no., on the oil and fuel filter, looks like a $30.00 dollar experiment.
Know wonder we go to the Kubota dealer's, just take 2 hours of time on a Sat. morning, go up to the desk, wait in line, then tell the expert desk jockey I want this that and the other thing and wah-lah all the filters for my tractor are on the desk and guaranteed to fit.

Next ?, does anyone change the oil plug washer gasket, the last time I changed the oil, I had to tighten one oil plug really hard to stop the oil from seeping out, don't like tightening the plug that hard.
 
   / What brand filters and engine oil in your kubotas? #83  
Oldpath05, I would be very surprised if they don't fit perfectly. Wix has been around a LONG time to risk their reputation like that. There is probably a cross that details exact thread, holes, and pressures on the web, but cannot give you any URL. I used to have a pretty large set of books that did that, but they are long gone!

When I have to start cranking down on the oil plug is when I change the washer. Otherwise it can lead to you finding out there is a heli-coil made JUST for stripped oil pan threads! :duh: Willing to bet it is a standard thread that you can find in any auto parts store and you might consider one of their nice magnetic plugs, usually comes with a new gasket.

George
 
   / What brand filters and engine oil in your kubotas? #84  
A wix oil filter on mine right now. Been there for 80 hrs and fits like OEM.
 
   / What brand filters and engine oil in your kubotas? #85  
Well WIX still has not fixed the WRONG FUEL FILTER for my BX2230, G2160, and RTV1100 that I have. They call for their 33972 fuel filter to fit in these applications and it is 50 Micron plastic mesh and not anything like the water blocking paper element that is a whole lot tighter then a 50 micron screen.

This is why WIX still FAILS on their crossover list.

David
 
   / What brand filters and engine oil in your kubotas? #86  
I discovered that Messicks usually quotes UPS shipping, because they figure most customers want whatever they order ASAP, but they can ship for less with USPS if you can wait. eBay is good for finding genuine Kubota filters. Wallyworld for Shell Rotella diesel oil.
 
   / What brand filters and engine oil in your kubotas? #87  
Well WIX still has not fixed the WRONG FUEL FILTER for my BX2230, G2160, and RTV1100 that I have.

I have no problem using wix on oil and air filters but I too have seen what I would call not to spec crosses on hydraulic filters and fuel filters on Kubota and other equipment.
 
   / What brand filters and engine oil in your kubotas? #88  
Ok, I did not want to be the one to start this, but, what the heck, here goes.

ALL diesel fuel, and gas, has trash in it, all of it has some water in it. I had to deal with 90,000 gallons of fuel for the generators I've mentioned above. Naturally, we had water/fuel separators on them, and the filtration system was huge in each machine. My pickup truck has a water separator.

It is not a good thing for significant amounts of water to slip past. If you are reasonably observant, the condensate in your tank will not harm your engine. I still have, and use, water paste to check it about twice a year, I'd do it more often if it were used daily, but then I would have already replaced the CRUMMY fuel filter system Kubota put on the BX-25, and still may one day soon.

Water rides on TOP of the tank, so don't let your tank get low is one tactic, so now you're dealing mostly with the trash one finds in fuel.

The Wix fuel filter prevents anything 50 microns, or larger, from entering the stream. I'm willing to hazard a guess that 50 microns is also the level of filtration on the Kubota filter since that is one fine level of filtration. I don't have my books anymore though, so am hampered there.

It has been proven to me, several times, that the paper element in the Kubota filter will totally plug with a half eye dropper of water in freezing weather, leaving you laying in the snow trying to change a filter! Now, understand, this half eye dropper of fuel doesn't slug all at once, but is cumulative.

The most fun was the first time the front filter stopped me dead in my tracks (the only time) I went and got the book and read 'How to change the front fuel filter' which starts out, use the loader to raise the front end so you can get the hood off! Well, that would be great IF the dam#^% thing would run!

I am using the Wix fuel filters happily, BECAUSE they don't have the paper element in them. 2 years, no hazard, white smoke, or exploding engine, and willing to bet mine will be around as long as anyone's.

Change them annually, because diesel fuel is trashy stuff, even if you're very careful where you buy it.

Probably will upgrade to a for really, real filter system one day, but as it has been said before, that is something Kubota should have done instead of sticking us with lawnmower filters! My one and only complaint with this machine.

George
 
   / What brand filters and engine oil in your kubotas? #89  
You are incorrect on several points, water is heavier and diesel floats on the top. A 50 micron filter is not a diesel filter in any of the diesel engines that I have and is made for non injected gasoline use in my book. But go ahead and use whatever filters WIX thinks that "will fit " in your applications, I know that ever time I get the correct fitting and spec filter and not one that WIX is guessing at.

David
 
   / What brand filters and engine oil in your kubotas? #90  
You are incorrect on several points, water is heavier and diesel floats on the top. A 50 micron filter is not a diesel filter in any of the diesel engines that I have and is made for non injected gasoline use in my book. But go ahead and use whatever filters WIX thinks that "will fit " in your applications, I know that ever time I get the correct fitting and spec filter and not one that WIX is guessing at.

David
 

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