M4500 Hyd Filter

[Kubota Newbie]

Ok, I need to clean the hydraulic filter on my M4500, just because I have no idea when it was done last, and I see no way to do it without all the tranny/hyd fluid running out while I clean the element. Anybody have any experience with this model? I'm thinking maybe if I park it on a steep incline while the bottom is off the hydraulic filter canister that I would only loose what is in the filter housing, but not sure. Ideas?

 

[meanjean]

How many litres of fluid are we talking here?
I'd be tempted to drain then re-fill.
Get dicking around and you will make a mess.

 

[Kubota Newbie]

The line to the filter pretty much comes off the bottom of the tranny. So, it looks like it would be pretty well empty 48 quarts/ 45 litre. Fluid on the tranny dipstick looks like new, see no reason to waste it. RC