Oil & Fuel Fuel Filter

[B58Hustler]

Here's my tool for the tough filters. As long as you have enough space...you have max grip and max leverage.

Reminds me of the first Crocodile Dundee movie when the NYC punk pulls a switchblade on Dundee, who then pulls out his 16" Bowie knife. Then he says to the punk "you call that a knife...THIS is a knife".

 

[beenthere]

It is the spin on fuel filter,not the sediment filter.

Greg

Thanks Greg. I missed that in your earlier post. Didn't realize the 2520 had the separator prior to a fuel filter. That sure looks to be an awkward place to reach with a filter wrench.

 

[RoyJackson]

Thanks Greg. I missed that in your earlier post. Didn't realize the 2520 had the separator prior to a fuel filter. That sure looks to be an awkward place to reach with a filter wrench.

Surprisingly, the operator's manual doesn't show the fuel filter (other then the one at the sediment bowl).
The only thing the (online) manual states about the fuel filter in the hours interval...at least that's all I could find.

 

[beenthere]

I think the pic Roy put up does show the fuel filter as well as the separator (sediment bowl and screen) but the writer of the manual didn't get it straight.
Here is jdparts.
#23 being the fuel filter
# 9 being what they call the 'separator'
#11 referred to as the filter element.
#21 the fuel pump.

 

[glc24]

Here's my tool for the tough filters. As long as you have enough space...you have max grip and max leverage.

Reminds me of the first Crocodile Dundee movie when the NYC punk pulls a switchblade on Dundee, who then pulls out his 16" Bowie knife. Then he says to the punk "you call that a knife...THIS is a knife".

I think I'm going to invest in one of those. Sometimes the strap wrench wants to slip and in the case of the 2520 spin on,it is very difficult to get the channel locks on the filter without screwing something else (fuel lines) up.

That sure looks to be an awkward place to reach with a filter wrench.

Yeah, they (JD) couldn't have made it more difficult if they had to. As for the manuals,it's too bad they don't revise the darn things. It's not like there aren't enough "mistakes" to correct to warrant the new manual.

Greg

 

[chevy]

I think I'm going to invest in one of those. Sometimes the strap wrench wants to slip and in the case of the 2520 spin on,it is very difficult to get the channel locks on the filter without screwing something else (fuel lines) up.



Yeah, they (JD) couldn't have made it more difficult if they had to. As for the manuals,it's too bad they don't revise the darn things. It's not like there aren't enough "mistakes" to correct to warrant the new manual.

Greg

I cannot find anything in my 2720 manual that shows that the spin on fuel filter should be changed. The only fuel filter they give an interval on for changing is the filter in the sediment bowl & that is at 400 hours. Using my diesel truck as a guide, a spin on fuel filter will last a long time. The spin on filter is a secondary filter, it should never get dirty fuel in it unless someone forgets to put in the sediment bowl filter. Maybe that is why it is not made easier to get to.

 

[glc24]

The spin on filter is a secondary filter, it should never get dirty fuel in it unless someone forgets to put in the sediment bowl filter.

I disagree. The sediment filter isn't going to catch evrything.
That's why it's called a filter. It filters. If they didn't want you to change it,I'm thinking it would be a permanent thing. Never read such a thing anywhere, that it was unnessessary to change a replaceable filter. Wonder what a JD tech would say if you told him that.

As for where it is,looks to me that is the only place for it within reason.

Greg

 

[chevy]

I disagree. The sediment filter isn't going to catch evrything.
That's why it's called a filter. It filters. If they didn't want you to change it,I'm thinking it would be a permanent thing. Never read such a thing anywhere, that it was unnessessary to change a replaceable filter. Wonder what a JD tech would say if you told him that.

As for where it is,looks to me that is the only place for it within reason.

Greg

I did not say it was unnecessary to ever change it. JD would not sell replacement filters if it was not to ever be changed. I am sure there are times when it would need to be changed. Since JD does not list it it in the regular service schedule, I take that to mean it is an as needed part.

 

[glc24]

Point taken chevy. Can't argue with a person that has a user name chevy.:thumbsup:

I was thinking too,if you strickly used the "off road" diesel, that probably would get your filters dirtier more quickly.

Greg

 

[smalltown]

I thought the high sulphur diesel was no longer available in the USA. ???

 

[Mace Canute]

........I was thinking too,if you strickly used the "off road" diesel, that probably would get your filters dirtier more quickly.

Why would off road diesel be dirtier from the refinery than on road diesel? I would believe handling of the fuel whereby they introduce dirt into it could be an issue but I still can't see why off road diesel would be more likely to be contaminated than on road diesel.

 

[kuboman]

The spin in filter is the one that does the real work of filtering. It will be the fine micron filter. The sediment bowl filter is just that. It catches the large particles that will settle out and trap most of the water.:thumbsup:

 

[topstoy]

Why would off road diesel be dirtier from the refinery than on road diesel? I would believe handling of the fuel whereby they introduce dirt into it could be an issue but I still can't see why off road diesel would be more likely to be contaminated than on road diesel.

Off road diesel is higher in sulfur but is no dirtier than low sulfur Diesel or Ultra Low.

 

[glc24]

Why would off road diesel be dirtier from the refinery than on road diesel? I would believe handling of the fuel whereby they introduce dirt into it could be an issue but I still can't see why off road diesel would be more likely to be contaminated than on road diesel.

Well,maybe I'm wrong but I thought the red off road,isn't processed "refined" as much as the diesel I buy at the Sunoco station,so isn't it going to be just a bit dirtier of a fuel.

Greg

 

[BigD9]

Boy I'm learning all the time. I always thought "off road diesel" was the same as "On Road Diesel" except for the lack of taxes and the additional of red dye. Kind of figured a fuel tanker arrived at the station, filled up the gasoline tanks and the diesel tanks and left. The station, by law, adds red dye to the off road fuels and that is that.

I just Googled this issue and looks like there is a web page kind of answering this question.
Does John Deere allow the use of Ultra-Low-Sulfur diesel fuel? : Ultra-Low-Sulfur diesel fuel in John Deere Engines.

The information contained in this web page looks like its old but still relevant, I think.

 

[Mace Canute]

Well,maybe I'm wrong but I thought the red off road,isn't processed "refined" as much as the diesel I buy at the Sunoco station,so isn't it going to be just a bit dirtier of a fuel.

Greg

Do you have anything to support that statement?

 

[glc24]

Do you have anything to support that statement?

I'm not making a statement as much as I'm asking a question.

Greg

 

[chevy]

In my area, heating oil & off road fuel are the same thing. Other than being dyed red & having no road taxes on it, I do not know what the difference is between it & road fuel.