We had a big John Deere tractor and it was too big for our land, so we bought this little B600E Kubota on Craigs list ($2,500.00)and not knowing enough about tractors, even after doing extensive research, we realized this one had been cannibalized!
But it turns out that there were reasons for the change in equipment , we are in the process of changing all the fluids (engine oil,transmission,crank case) so we know a starting point, and changing out the air filter and the two inline diesel filters.That alone cost about $200.00.
We wanted a Garden tractor because of the uneven terrain that would not be kind to a finish mower. Here is the 4 foot wide shredder, perfect for what we need.
This is where an oil bath air filter is suppose to be. I found the original equipment in a old tractor parts place out of Minnesota for $200.00 . After doing some research on them I discovered they are very messy, the oil has to be changed every use and for $200.00 we could find something better. I did find out that Kubota changed the air filter after this model, it was the only model to have used the oil bath system.
The other part the previous owners did was to change the fuel filter to an in line filter. You can see that originally it had a apparatus that unscrewed so you could wash the filter and return it to this place. It also had the shutoff valves as well.
We will just use standard inline filters and crimp the hose (which it turns out need to be replaced) when we change the filters.
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