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    Advice on Diesel / Bio Diesel

    Well I just ordered a 4 ounce bottle of the Biobor JF biocide and this syringe which should work well.
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    Advice on Diesel / Bio Diesel

    Id rather have the smaller bottle honestly, as It wil take me forever to go through it. I will have to throw it out before I get to use it all already I think lol
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    Advice on Diesel / Bio Diesel

    My wife is a cardiac ICU RN, I wont have any issue with syringe's :D
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    Advice on Diesel / Bio Diesel

    I dont question its effectiveness really as Ive seen other chemicals in super small doses serve their purpose (non fuel related stuff) But to measure this and get it right you would really want to use a syringe I think. Pour it into a cap or small cup, then draw up through the syringe the right...
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    Advice on Diesel / Bio Diesel

    Anyone have any experience with this product? https://www.amazon.com/Biobor-JF-Diesel-Fuel-Biocide/dp/B001HWT1XW/ref=sr_1_8?keywords=Diesel+fuel+biocide&qid=1561125290&s=automotive&sr=1-8 Its a small 8oz. bottle which suits me best given I will go through it VERY slowly. The dosage is so small...
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    Advice on Diesel / Bio Diesel

    Thanks for that Wolfman, I do have the Stanadyne product. One of the first things I did after I got the tractor home was look for a good diesel additive just to boost cetane, and help keep injectors clean, reduce water etc etc, and the Stanadyne product came up as a top pick everywhere I looked...
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    Black stuff in fuel filter

    Interesting. I have no experience with the issue as Ive never seen it first hand. I had just always read people call it "diesel algae". Thats partly why I was confused, because I know algae really well having been heavily into aquariums for years and in managing a swimming pool. Algae, like you...
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    new to kubota

    Im attaching a picture from the owners manual for the 1750 hst. Hope this helps. If youd like to donwload the full owners manual you can find it here...
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    Filters

    I saw the messiks video a while back where they compared the OEM Kubota oil filter to three Napa oil filters, Silver, gold and a platinum level napa filter......The OEM kubota filter had a MUCH larger filter element in it than all 3 of the napa filters. It was a big difference. The platinum...
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    Advice on Diesel / Bio Diesel

    If 90% of fuel pumps (as seems to be the case in the ones Ive been checking around me) have stickers indicating biodiesel blends of 5-20%, and kubota is saying they recommend nothing over 5% biodiesel in their engines, and even suggesting 5% isnt ideal, then what is the consumer to really do? Im...
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    Advice on Diesel / Bio Diesel

    Does that mean that non bio-diesel is a thing then? I have seen some diesel pumps that had no sticker about it being a bio diesel blend. I think proper labeling at the pumps is required by law, but I wish I knew for sure, i hate to trust the absence of a sticker. The girl behind the counter in...
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    Maintenance questions

    Thats kinda where I am leaning. The owners manual has 15w-40 as one of like 3 suggestions, and I just was unsure what was the best to use. I need to just go research engine oil standards so I know what the numbers actually mean better. Thanks for the suggestion!
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    Advice on Diesel / Bio Diesel

    As Ive stated recently in other threads on these boards Im a new L2501 owner. This is my first time personally owning a diesel engine machine, so I have never paid a lot of attention to diesel fuel pumps at gas stations or the different types of diesel. Since I got my L2501 just a month or so...
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    Black stuff in fuel filter

    I was talking to a co worker of mine the other day about this issue -algae in diesel. He has been a tractor collector and restorer for his whole life, along with his father. They owned over 100 tractors at one time, down to about 60 now. He tells me he has never had algae in his diesel that he...
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    Maintenance Schedule L2501

    Im a new owner of L2501 also, and I feel need to clarify based on the other posts so far. What you are supposed to do in this tractor is change the oil and 3 filters at 50 hours. So you will be replacing the Oil Filter, Hydraulic oil filter, and transmission oil filter. You will also change the...
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    Maintenance questions

    Ive been curious about this as well, as I will have to do my first 50 hour maintenance before long. I live in North Florida. The tractor will never operate below 32F likely. In the summer of course it will operate a lot around 90F. What is the absolute top of the line oil I could put in this...
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    proper operating RPM

    as a novice tractor owner I have read a lot on this topic as I was curious about this as well. All the reading and research I have done has suggested to me that you are better off to run at higher RPM's rather than lower RPM's. One reason that I dont think has been mentioned here yet, but that...
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    Kubota stopped moving while I was mowing?

    obvious things first, cause it happens to all of us.........sure its not in neutral?
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    Need help identifying a part

    Looks kinda like a spray nozzle too. Did you have a sprayer of some sort on the trailer?
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    My First Tractor!

    Nice, welcome. Im with Bmbbm, I would change everything right out of the gate - all filters and fluids, and grease up every zerk nipple you can find with a high quality grease. Zerks on your FEL and any around the 3 pt. hitch you should grease every 10 hours of operation or so. You may already...