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Neil, from Messick's here.
We're out today with the Kubota BX series tractor
to talk about a simple little upgrade
you could do to the air cleaning systems on these.
These tractors from the factory will have
single stage air filter boxes on them
and if you go to parts some other
product lines that Kubota has,
you can actually add a secondary
air cleaner inside of the primary one
to help protect your engine.
The reason why you typically would want
to do that would be, if you're working
in really dusty environments
or if you're a guy like myself who says,
"An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure,"
putting this simple little inexpensive
air filter inline with your engine
helps give it a further protection
against the elements.
If you come here with me,
we're going to flip the hood open on the tractor.
Right here, you can see where our air cleaner is.
The air cleaner on this tractor
runs in reverse for most machines,
the radiator drawls this direction,
so all of your clean air is actually drawn off
the top up here.
We take the cap,
we open this up,
we take out our air cleaner you'll see.
It's a single stage filter
made by Donaldson,
stamped right there on the end.
We have off the shelf here
that we found another Kubota part number
K7561-82360.
We'll link that down here in the bottom
of the description of the video.
If we open up this
safety filter,
this guy will fit right inside
the air cleaner box over here.
You can take this,
the open end of the filter
line it up on the inside of the air cleaner
and give it a little bit of a press
you see it sits right there in the middle
and then this filter will go over top of it.
Those secondary filters are typically
called safety filters.
Their purpose is that if you get
dirt that passes through one of these
and gets on the safety filter--
you know that this is completely short--
the recommendation at that point generally,
is that you take both
filters at that point
and replace them both together.
It also enables you if you're a guy
that wants to try to clean these things out --
low pressure air something to blow
some of the dirt out of it--
if you're doing those kinds of things
really, really smart to have
a safety filter in place
so that you don't put a small tear in here
and create a place for dirt
to get sucked down into your engine.
So gives you an extra
added element of safety
just by having that there.
Once you push that guy in,
you can take the cap here,
line the clips up,
snap it over top,
you can see that guy
snaps right back in place
just like it's supposed to,
so absolute perfect fit.
Another series with the same
practice is the standard Ls,
the L2501, 3301, 3901
and the standard Ls before it,
3400 and 3800, 3200
those are all in there.
All those tractors have
single stage air cleaners as well
so when we flip the hood up down here,
these are easy to get to because
they're right in the front.
See, there's a large
air filter canister here in the front.
When we pop that canister open,
we have a large,
single air filter.
Nothing there on the inside.
We can do exactly the same thing
here with this tractor that we can do on the BX,
in this case, we're pulling Kubota part number
TA040-93220.
We'll link that in the description.
When you pop this guy open here,
you can see we've got another safety filter.
This guy here can fit
back inside the can
and inside this.
You can see how these nest together right here.
Here's our regular filter,
this one just slides inside of it
and nest together,
giving you that added layer of protection
for your engine.
Those are safety filters.
If you've noticed any other models
that have the same scenario
with only one filter,
do let us know down the comments
will do some research for you
and find you safety filters
that are going to fit that machine.
To my knowledge,
BX series and standard L are the first
to the come to mind
and like I said,
if you're working in a dusty environment
where you're concerned about
the long-term health of your engine,
adding one of these to the inside
of that air cleaner canister
just gives you that added layer of protection.
If we can help you with any parts
or service needs for a tractor,
give us a call at Messicks,
we're available at 800-222-3373
or online at messicks.com.
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