Changing fuel filters

[Bob lincs]

How often do you change fuel filters on machines ? . We have always changed the filters at every service as i have been it the mindset that i dont want to be doing it in the middle of a field on a sunday afternoon , but now some of our tractors the fuel filters are in the region of £170 a pair . we have a good filter set up on our tank so im starting to think we may be able to change them less often .

 

[Farma Parma]

Luck of the drawer 400 or 600 hrs on masseys but ive pushed them too 800hrs no issues Storage tanks have 10micron filter on also mind.
If your diesel has no bugs in it thats the secret, chuck some Bio-cide in the tanks best way
3 oem fuel filters on most masseys £125 right enough there no cheap anymore

 

[Bob lincs]

500hrs service on all our JDs

 

[bobk]

200 hours , fords are a fiver , fastrac £11 .

 

[yellow belly]

Dusty conditions combine struggles to get to the hours
tractors now on 600 hours
do wonder now diesal is so clean and clear how much longer they could go

 

[nick...]

Do mine at 200 hours when changing engine oil filters.normally every other year.
Nick...

 

[Northeastfarmer]

Every 1000 hours on the loadall

 

[moretimeforgolf]

We recently switched from gas oil to gtl. It’s a bit dearer but I’m expecting fuel filters to last a lot longer especially on the newer machines.

 

[Mur Huwcun]

Some cars have ridiculous service intervals and my car is lucky if it gets a fuel filter every 50k miles and it’s still very clean them, not like a lot of tractor ones with muck on the top of them and sediment bowl and primer pump filter full of gunk!!

 

[kill]

Loader tractor was going fine the other day when I done her a full service including fuel filters. Shock Horror when saw it had actually done 2000 hours since last fuel filter change but I use a little fuel additive in every tanker drop and suffer from no fuel bug problems and tractor went no better after the change.
Fuel filter was purchased for the last major thousand hour service but afterwards remember not fitting it due to an issue with the filter.
Really wonder how long it would have been fine for.
Talking to an ex neighbour a month ago and he said his main tractor had a call out within a hundred hours of-being dealer serviced due to only a blocked fuel filter and I think after our conversation he was going try additive rather than dealers call outs.

 

[ACEngineering]

Dad changed his oil and fuel filter on old leyland yesterday. Old ones has 2003 scratched in them??‍

 

[Mur Huwcun]

Dad changed his oil and fuel filter on old leyland yesterday. Old ones has 2003 scratched in them??‍

I should think dad could easily beat that!!! I actually remember starting up an old Fiat that had been standing for years only for it to burst the screw on oil filter as it had rusted so thin ???

 

[balerman]

If you are going to skip a few filters,fuel filters would be the ones,specially if you have a filter on the bulk tank.Only caveat is the tank filter is probably 10 micron,wheras common rail engine filters can be down to 2 micron.

 

[milkloss]

Change the primary filter annually or thereabouts secondary would be when something has trouble/lack of power. Always have a spare on the shelf though.

 

[JD6920s]

How often do you change fuel filters on machines ? . We have always changed the filters at every service as i have been it the mindset that i dont want to be doing it in the middle of a field on a sunday afternoon , but now some of our tractors the fuel filters are in the region of £170 a pair . we have a good filter set up on our tank so im starting to think we may be able to change them less often .

Don’t buy from the JD dealer, go to an independent filter specialist and buy Donaldson or Baldwin, They will be a fraction of the price and you can change as often as you like, same for the oil and air too.
One of the above makes the filters for JD so I believe as well as others, as tractor manufacturers don’t make their own filters regardless of what they tell you about only using genuine.

 

[Pistonbroke]

Dad changed his oil and fuel filter on old leyland yesterday. Old ones has 2003 scratched in them??‍

Hours or year?

 

[bobk]

Hours or year?

Don't be daft , everyone knows a Leyland can't do 2000 hours

 

[ACEngineering]

Hours or year?

sorry that was the year last changed

 

[feilding]

No longer than 250 hrs, along with engine oil and filter. Got a filter on bulk storage tank as well, filters are a lot cheaper than repairs to tractor fuel system,

 

[Farma Parma]

am convinced the fuel storage tank makes a heck of a diff
But even changing them ones on the 6480 at 800 odd hours they were spotless & so was all the diesel i tipped out of the lot
But thats as long as id go.