Recent content by goodcleandirt

Slight improvement on your suggestion, learned from an expensive visit from the service department of my local Kubota dealer: Go ahead and tighten the ring nut but pop the tubing off the air return port [that brass nipple at the top of the filter housing] and wait until no bubbles come...

I ran my L3240 out of diesel [its easy to do if you have the engine revved way up to run a PTO wood chipper and you are not in the seat looking at the gauges]. Put in 10 gallons, opened the bleed valve. It would cough a few times and then just turn over as if it had no fuel. I knew better...

It says a lot for those tractors that I don't have a problem more often than once a decade...doesn't say much for me that I let things go until it just quits. I only have a bit under 800 hours on it.

The fuel filter was caked with rusty looking gunk, not changed in 10 years. If I were patient I could have got only the bowl and filter cartridge and o-rings from Amazon for maybe $16. I begged for a filter from the local Kubota dealer and got $120 kit with the valve housing/filter base. Put...

BTW, the way I ran mine out of diesel was a new attachment that gets you out of the seat while the engine is revved way up: a PTO wood chipper. Works great but you have no idea how fast you are emptying the tank.

I suppose that bleed valve locations wander around the engine from model to model. for a particular model [L3240 in my case] a particular picture saves me from twiddling with everything that looks like a screw or a valve.