BX fuel filter replacement

[cerlawson]

I have been researching what to do about frequent need for fuel filter replacement. Old threads show a filter from Hastings model GF2 has been used. It is mainly an automobile filter, but they show i for reveal off road manufacturer.

I will be testing one to see if the flow of fuel through it compares to the Kubota filters, which think may be too fine. I'll post my results when the filter arrives.

 

[GWD]

Can it be concluded that the fuel filters on your BX become clogged with just a few hours? Is the engine becoming fuel starved?

It sounds like a fuel problem rather than a filter problem. Finding a filter that has less filtering ability than the OEM will likely cause more problems than it solves.

How is the fuel stored? How is it pumped (if done)? Is it pumped into the tractor through a filter?

Filtered pumps are quite expensive but I'd bet it would solve the problem.

Something similar to this:

http://www.northerntool.com/shop/tools/product_200304242_200304242

 

[Wildfire]

I'm not sure your going to gain much if anything going with that filter. It's not much different than the ones on the machine now. There are two of them. It's the lower one that gets all the dirt. I pulled mine off at 70 hours and found it full of crap. I ended up putting the same filtration system that's on the Kubota Grand L's. I had to do a bit of modifying and then fab up a guard but I'm glad I did it this way. I did two videos on it as well.

Part 1. http://youtu.be/QcQUgl8rNIg

Part 2. http://youtu.be/JMj_jVemILU

 

[dmanlyr]

Well since there are literally thousands of BX series tractors out there running fine with the factory filters, there is no way that the factory filter is too fine. If you are plugging up the filters in a hurry, then you need to get your tank cleaned out and make sure that the fuel supplier is providing un contaminated fuel.

If you decide to put on a less fine filter, say a 15 or 20 micron (I am taking a guess that the factory filter is a 10 micron) then where do you think all that crud that was going to plug up the factory filter is going to go? Right into the rest of the fuel system, so rather than plugging up a relatively cheap filter, you can count on potentially damaging hundreds of dollars or injectors, or a few thousand dollar injection pump.

If you do want to replace the factory filter to get a longer MTBF, then a Racor style spin on filter with at least a 10 micron element would be good. Of course they are a bit larger, and harder to squeeze in the space available.

Personally I would not spend the money and time to install the Racor, I would just clean out the tank and make sure that the fuel that I am buying is clean and join the rest of the BX owners who can get a hundred or more hours out of a factory filter(s). No sense recreating the wheel, Kubota already built it, and did a nice job at that!

Just food for thought.

David