Anyone find the operators manual for the LX2601SU online? Found almost all the others but none for this or any of LX series.
LX2601SU operators manual
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Orange man
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Kubota L2501 LA525 loader , woods prd6000 mower, Land pride RB 1672
If you go to the Kubota usa web page you can download it , look under the service & support heading.
No, but I have a hardcopy.
BTW, what you're going to find is that the illustrations for the hydraulic filter and the HST filter are backward/swapped. Don't ask what happened when I found out the hard way. I was pretty sure I'd taken off the filter that was CALLED the Hydraulics Filter first. It bothered me that it was the lowest point on the tractor, and I was eyeballing that 1" line going back to the front of the tractor, but I let what I saw on paper override common sense and proceded as described by the directions. The directions are good, but they point at the wrong filters. I got a good oil bath for not trusting my instincts.
Hopefully Kubota has corrected this somewhat angering error.
There are some tricks to avoid handling the oil, but the first time is the only time you'll need those tricks. Being a hydrostatic tractor does indeed have its shortfalls, but the advantages far outweigh the disadvantages. One trick is to connect a shop-vac to the fill port on the trans/diff (in the back next to the top link pin. Turn on the vac, and it'll keep the oil sucked in without jacking the tractor up on stupid (and probably deadly) angles. My only concern is if it reverses the flow in the filter while removing it and pulls some of the crud back in that you're trying to get rid of by changing the filters.
BTW, what you're going to find is that the illustrations for the hydraulic filter and the HST filter are backward/swapped. Don't ask what happened when I found out the hard way. I was pretty sure I'd taken off the filter that was CALLED the Hydraulics Filter first. It bothered me that it was the lowest point on the tractor, and I was eyeballing that 1" line going back to the front of the tractor, but I let what I saw on paper override common sense and proceded as described by the directions. The directions are good, but they point at the wrong filters. I got a good oil bath for not trusting my instincts.
Hopefully Kubota has corrected this somewhat angering error.
There are some tricks to avoid handling the oil, but the first time is the only time you'll need those tricks. Being a hydrostatic tractor does indeed have its shortfalls, but the advantages far outweigh the disadvantages. One trick is to connect a shop-vac to the fill port on the trans/diff (in the back next to the top link pin. Turn on the vac, and it'll keep the oil sucked in without jacking the tractor up on stupid (and probably deadly) angles. My only concern is if it reverses the flow in the filter while removing it and pulls some of the crud back in that you're trying to get rid of by changing the filters.
I think that's the only real complaint about the parts I got to do my maintenance. I had to lookup which filter went where, and that includes the oil filter because all were painted grey. 
. Next time will be easier since I can just match the model numbers.
. Next time will be easier since I can just match the model numbers.
Orange man
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Kubota L2501 LA525 loader , woods prd6000 mower, Land pride RB 1672
It is free to download, after you put in your cart click download not printed copy, and they will send you a link to download.
Yeah, that can be problematic. The threads are different, the nipple is different size, and the filters are nearly the same size, but just enough you can tell if you're paying attention. After taking one off and having your tractor bleeding to death and realizing you have the wrong one is the WRONG time to be realizing it. I got in the habit of marking the outside of the box. The numbers for the filter are correct on the boxes, but they're completely backward in the book. Bottom filter on RH side is Hydraulic return filter, and the one up high on the LH side is the Hydrostatic filter, but the diagrams in the book say the opposite. I wasn't happy when I had to get another bucket of SUDT. Fortunately, I'd put down a very large pan to capture any drips while I was doing this. They're really not very hard to get to, but WOW, those things were tight from the factory. The paint on the seals probably didn't help either. The good news is the first filter change is the only one that I'll have to worry about that. According to the maintenance schedule, from then on it's fluid and filters both for service, so draining makes the misinformation a non-issue. It's a lot more casual when you're trying to put something on that doesn't fit and oil isn't pouring out.I think that's the only real complaint about the parts I got to do my maintenance. I had to lookup which filter went where, and that includes the oil filter because all were painted grey.
Just trying to give a little heads up to those with new LX models that may decide to do their maintenance themselves. THE BOOK IS WRONG!
Maybe if you just loosened the filters a little bit before putting the shop vac on the fill would keep the thing from sucking oil back out of the filters? On a video showing a guy changing them quickly, looks like little to no oil came out until he loosened quite a bit.
Actually, thinking about it. Don't know why it would suck the oil backwards through the filter. It'd be sucking on both sides of the filter in sucking on the reservoir. No way is it going to suck oil through the filter.
Holy moly. What a circus to go through to get the PDF. Just got notification of download link.
Did same for the B2301. Really tricky. Kept cancelling out my download. So, I ordered the paper manual ($10). However, the email telling me I had a download appeared as well. Got both.
Jchonline
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Man I thought I was loosing all 15 gallons when I did the M62 filters...it gushed something fierce. The filters are right next to each other right beside the subframe plate under the machine so I to get the back one I had to have the front one off first...
I put the old one back on before I made too much of a mess and went to get more replacement fluid first. Dealer said yes you just have to be fast....lol Then I came back, took them off in a rush again and of course the flow petered out after another gallon or so. I lost maybe 3 gal in all. Those M62 filters weigh over 15lb a piece filled and they were slippery!