Do your own Fluids and Filters on a BX

[sixdogs]

Maybe double check the parts list on Messick's site?

 

[Poopdeck Pappy]

Got to ask... Does the '23 have a locking tab and small bolt next to the strainer like my '24 does? It comes out first...

Mine also had a locking tab and bolt. Maybe yours is covered with gunk?

Maybe double check the parts list on Messick's site?

Nope, the BX23 doesn't use a locking tab like my BX2660 does. I doused it with some Kroil today, and I'll give it a go again tomorrow. I would hate to change the hydraulic fluid and not be able to clean the screen.

 

[sixdogs]

Be careful and make 100% sure what you are doing so you don't have an unexpected disaster. Maybe ask JOHNTHOMAS or check a shop manual or something. Sometimes, things can be unexpected because of a serial number break or design change or reverse thread. There is a thread around about a guy that had to drill a hole to install a block plug heater on a Kubota--no big deal--but went a whisker too far and drilled into the cylinder. Not that you could have this problem but you never know and it seems unlikely a bolt would be on that tight without an explanation. Just my two cents having been in this situation before--and taken the wrong path.

The screen will likely be pretty clean anyway.

 

[Poopdeck Pappy]

That's good advice, and I appreciate it.

 

[Poopdeck Pappy]

Here is a pic of the bolt head for the filter screen on the BX23:

 

[sixdogs]

You could also stop by a Kubota dealer and ask a guy in the shop. I have done that.

 

[JOHNTHOMAS]

If you feel you have to do it then use an impact drill/air wrench.
I wouldn't worry about it myself if the drained oil didn't have metal particles in it when feeling of it with your hand. My belief is the strainer is of most value at the first fluid change when it catches the metal particles from the manufacture of the machine and also/then the filter is the catcher of metal particles which would only be there if something has gone wrong after the first time. :2cents:

 

[sixdogs]

Do BX trans/hyd filters have a magnet in them like bigger Kubotas?

 

[dodge man]

That pic doesn't look like mine but it could be different than mine. Maybe it's different because of the subframe for the backhoe.

 

[JOHNTHOMAS]

Nope, the BX23 doesn't use a locking tab like my BX2660 does. I doused it with some Kroil today, and I'll give it a go again tomorrow. I would hate to change the hydraulic fluid and not be able to clean the screen.

Did you get it off?