next mod for the BX

[graybeard451]

Picked this up today in my travels at a bike shop. It's a full port ball valve made for motorcycles. The next time I have to crimp the fuel line with vice grips to change the fuel filters will be the last time.

 

[Junkman]

Vice grips and a piece of cardboard are still cheaper and just as good in my opinion. A valve is just one more thing that can get caught on a twig and ripped off. I like the KISS method whenever possible.... /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[LBrown59]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( Picked this up today in my travels at a bike shop. It's a full port ball valve made for motorcycles. The next time I have to crimp the fuel line with vice grips to change the fuel filters will be the last time. )</font>

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<font color="green">I just bought 2 shut off valves similar to this at tractor supply.
They are for B&S ENGINES but I'm going to put one on my 1986 Dodge D-50 pick up and the other one on my MTD lawn tractor. </font>

 

[theboman]

I just stick a small bucket under my filter when I change them out... Use what comes out to wipe things down (tools etc) to the the gunk off.

 

[LBrown59]

Vise grips and buckets don't cut it in small awkward hard to reach places.

 

[Junkman]

That is because you don't have the experience that is necessary to master this technique. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[David_G]

I just stick an appropriately sized centre punch up the pipe like a plug.

 

[Junkman]

Spoken like a true mechanic.......... improvising at its best....... You sure that there is no Yankee blood in you??? /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[LBrown59]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( I just stick an appropriately sized centre punch up the pipe like a plug.
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So how do you insert the filter into the pipe with the punch in there????

 

[LBrown59]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( That is because you don't have the experience that is necessary to master this technique. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif )</font>

How much experence do you have changing the fuel filter on the Dodge D-50 pick ups.

 

[Junkman]

This is a tractor site and the original poster was referring to using this valve on a tractor, which by his profile is probably a BX23, not a Dodge. Now, go stick that valve into your Dodge..... /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[Muleskinner]

I'm not sure why Kubota does not put fuel line shut off valves on all of their tractors??? The L series has one. /forums/images/graemlins/confused.gif

 

[Junkman]

That question can only be answered by the bean counters... My best guess is that they don't see this as a necessary item, just like the high output generator or engine block heater. If they were to add both of these items to the tractors as standard equipment, it wouldn't add $200 to the list price of the tractor. For some unknown reason, Kubota seems to want to nickle and dime you for every little thing. /forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif /forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif /forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif /forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif

 

[Muleskinner]

I've changed the fuel filter on my B7800. A shut off valve would be handy, if for nothing else the safety aspect of it.

 

[LBrown59]

I installed one on my
66 Bolens
67 Bolens
86 D 50
95 M T D
and just got one for the 89 D 50

 

[Junkman]

Guess that the Kubota BX must be the orphan....... or it doesn't need one if you use my method...... /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[LBrown59]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( Guess that the Kubota BX must be the orphan....... or it doesn't need one if you use my method...... /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif )</font>

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AW Junkmind.