Filters - where do you get yours?

puntabrava

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Location
Wiltshire
At a guess i suspect its something like a MLT 634 with a merc engine. The air filters on that are expensive IMO and he's asking for 2 hydraulic filters which there both expensive BUT imo 1 of them is just a pilot filter and i rarely bother changing that one, nothing bad happens to machine if it blocks other than controls stop working. it wont damage anything.

I only fit the genuine engine oil filter, any aftermarket merc ones i have bought are missing the fibre seal on the bottom of the element! in my mind that is important 🤔 that one isn't over expensive anyway.
The merc parts would be much cheaper bought from a merc dealer if you knew other engine fitments.
 

ACEngineering

Member
Location
Oxon
Turf? No, not me. That means there must be two of them still about then.

I was in contact with you about carriage parts for ours. I managed to get them off a burned out one being broken on eBay. If ours is serial no. 03, and there's one on a turf farm somewhere, and there was a burned out one one eBay, maybe that's all of them? I'm tellin' ya, she's a rare classic in the making.

ETA: See your point about hyd filters. Just read a different part of the (crap!) manual, and found out about two of the ones you mention. Local dealer didn't know about them.

There are a few about but not many, lot more that 3 though😆 chap local had 2 of them!
Yes I remember someone ringing about tilt linkage and I said to contact that ebay advert. Was also I guy wanting the gearbox cause his shaft was knackered and manitou and turners that make gearbox couldnt supply it!

It might be a classic but it'll never be worth anything🤦‍♂️

99% of main dealers will have zero knowledge of them machines!

I dont have hands on experience myself other than supplying a few parts and some limited tech info. What I am familiar with is it was a Redrock Prototype of which only 2 were made. Manitou bought one and the other vanished! Possibly in to Europe somewhere? Denmark being a good bet as they loved Redrocks!

I sold a few of the older model new back in the day before they went bust.
 

rick_vandal

Member
Location
Soft South
Air filters make me laugh
Most tractors /machines have a light on dash to tel you when to clean /blow it out
loads off people change em just for changing them
When i was spreading lime i could blow them out a few times a day but still worked and lasted for years
Buy my truck tractor and vehicle filter from the likes off auto parts etc
but as above it helps to have a good bloke to cross reference filter numbers etc
I write al filter numbers down in service book for vehicle so can always nearly cross ref them ny self
Remember oil-bath air cleaners? Long life and cheap to run.
 

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