Wrenching on the Diesel Kubota RTV? Already?

hey there folks this is Josh Stoney Ridge farmer welcome back to the farm it's another beautiful day here in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains and fall is in the air today we're going to be working on our Kubota x 1140 we've got to change the oil we've got to change the oil filter and we've got to change the two hydraulic filters in the rear of the machine we're gonna have a little bit of fun we'll walk you through this process if you're considering getting one of these Kubota X 11 40s we'll talk a little bit about it and we're going to have a comparison video and a full review on this versus our John Deere Gator 825 I soon so come along today as we do a full service on our Kubota X 1140 alright [Music] okay guys so first things first let me show you this is the manual and I had the guys when I bought the machine to flag the manual where we had our different service points on this machine and basically we're supposed to change our oil change our oil filter check a few things and do a little lubrication at about 50 hours we're supposed to lubricate the whole machine around every 50 hours and then the oil changes will be a 200 hour interval so it's pretty simple pretty easy what we're doing right now is getting that break in oil if it has any break in oil in it and we're changing the filters on the hydraulic system because they're more likely to get trashed within the first 50 hours or so and then they'll start running smooth so we're going to change all those filters now behind me here I have the specific types of oil that are required on this machine this machine has two hydraulic filters and if you're doing this yourself you can pause it right there that's your part number that you'll need and this is the other hydraulic filter pause it there's your hydraulic filter number and this is the oil filter and we got the genuine Kubota type oil filter if we weren't using genuine Kubota we'd be using wicks filters I'm a big fan of Napa and a big fan of wicks filters we also have the super UDT which is recommended by Kubota for hydraulic fluid and we have Shell Rotella t5 which is a synthetic blend typically I'll put a synthetic or synthetic blend in every piece of equipment that I have and on the back of this you have a little label that tells you the certifications of the oil and whether it's appropriate for your machine and we looked up all those numbers and the cj4 is or CI four is what we're looking for and that's what this is good to go just a little point I'd like to make with the new hydraulic systems and the newer engine systems in the tight tolerances on newer vehicles like this you need to use the recommended oils don't mix oils don't put some old whatever hydraulic fluid in this machine because you got to protect your investment this is an expensive machine close to 20,000 bucks so we're protecting our investment and we're putting everything right as best we possibly can now I'm no mechanic so if you have any suggestions or any questions or any helpful advice please post it down in the comment section alright guys once again I want to give a huge shout out to Northern Tool for giving me a veteran discount on this clutch toolkit right here this is an awesome clutch toolkit we're going to go over it we're going to do a review on it pretty soon and we're going to give one away to a very special individual so be sure you stay tuned to the channel pound that like button subscribe the channel jump in there follow us on Facebook and Instagram if you can we're going to be giving away an awesome $300 tool set pretty soon so I'm going to show you how I set up for oil changes and we have a lot of vehicles here on the farm this may help you in your struggles of trying to organize yourself for your services on your tractors trucks cars or even if you just live in a neighborhood and you have a lawn mower and a couple cars this will help you so what I do to stay organized with Mike vehicles and with my cars and with all my tractors and lawnmowers and all that stuff as I have a tote with all of my oil change goodies in there and if ever I need a specialized filter removal wrench I buy it and I keep it in there and I keep an adjustable wrench in there everything should be in there that I'll need for performing this oil change aside from pulling the protective pan underneath this machine so keep an oil change bin and keep a car wash bin in your garage it's an easy way to organize all this stuff also keep a little book in there that tells you everything you've done and everything you've serviced so here's our new clutch tool kit and you can see all the sockets we'll need everything is nicely organized in this tool kit pretty cool we want to organize your life organize your shop definitely organize your shop in your garage very very cool tool kit right here and there's all your wrenches so we're gonna get up underneath here with a 12 millimeter which I've got in my hand and we're gonna use our little Milwaukee impact we're gonna remove the pan underneath Kubota I will tell you this I'm not a huge fan of having to remove a guard up underneath my UTV to change the oil it seems like a hassle that there should be a solution too I should be able to access the oil drain plug without having to remove this but such is life all good probably should have some safety glasses on because it's gonna rain down on my face there we go easy enough to remove this pan and here's what the bolts look like we'll just stack them up right over here there are three bolts towards the front of the machine and two bolts towards the rear aside from tasting up all the goodies that we're up in there so here's our guard we've removed that five bolts very easy right here is our oil pan into the front of the oil pan right here is our drain plugs we'll remove that drain plug gently and we will not overtighten when we put it back there are a few other things that we need to do with this 50 hour service and I'll explain those to you in just a second here's our drain pan here's our fourteen millimeter bolt we'll loosen that guy up and drain all the oil out hopefully we don't make a big mess but I tend to make a big mess just kind of my thing now there's a little copper washer we want to hang on to here go awesome there's the mess we were looking for so I got my finger right here because there's another guard pan directly in front of our oil change our oil drain plug so evidently we need to remove both guards up underneath here in order to drain the oil let all that oil drain out now we've got two ways we can access our oil filter we can either go in beside the battery and remove the oil filter which is a fairly tight space or we can go in from beneath I'll show you real quick there's a cover here we've removed the battery cover and you can go in right here and you can see there's an oil filter down there that grey thing is the oil filter now it's much much easier to access that from down beneath right here you can see it right there so that's how we'll go in one step I may not have mentioned is we want to warm our engine up to about 110 degrees or so so I let this machine run for somewhere in the neighborhood of Oh eight minutes or so and we'll just replace our drain plug there doesn't appear to be a magnet on the end of this drain plug which is kind of nice to have sometimes okay make sure we hang on to that little copper washer that's in there and you definitely don't want to hear grit while we're tightening this down so I cleaned it off really really well and we'll just snug it down not Superman tight but just snug you don't have to get all fancy with rocket science but I'm sure there's a spec for how tight that gets all right so here's our oil pan just to the driver side of the oil pan is the starter and the oil filter is directly above us right here so here I am on the side where the battery is again I honestly think it's going to be easier to go in this way but it's really tight quarters in here seems as though this is going to be the easiest way there are a couple lines underneath and I did not want to disturb those lines one of them I'm sure is a brake line I don't want to go bending and moving lines out of the way so this is how we're gonna access it it's a little cumbersome to do an oil change on this I'm not gonna lie moderately cumbersome okay so the filter wrench that you're gonna need is an 80 millimeter filter wrench just so you know 80 millimeter probably should be the same for most of these little Kubota three cylinder diesel engines good deal out comes the oil filter this is the factory oil filter and you can tell cuz it's great it's been painted with the engine alright we'll take our new filter we'll put a little bit of oil on the seal right here and then we'll go up underneath and reinstall okay so I'm going hand tight but my hands are kind of in a bind down here so I'm gonna put my wrench filter wrench on here I'm gonna get it as tight as I can with my hands I'm gonna go about a quarter turn tighter just to make sure we don't have any leaks hard part's over alright we need to torque our wheels down that's part of the 50 hour service we're gonna tighten them down to about 95 foot pounds which is a lot and we'll repeat this process all the way around the whole vehicle nice torque range I'll post the link down the video description to a decent torque wrench that won't break the bank all right so we're down here to the rear of the machine for the next part of this project there are two filters in the rear of this machine they're both transmission filters we just take one off and lube up the gasket and put it back and then we take the other one off lube up the gasket and put it back should be pretty simple I'll show you all right there two filters yellow and then there's a black one right here and it takes the same eighty millimeter for the yellow filter the black one is different lefty-loosey righty-tighty that's snug from the factory man very snug now before you do this you want to have your other filter ready to rock and roll so when you get this off you can zip the other filter back on you don't want to go losing a whole bunch of hydraulic fluid not this thing again we're gonna rub a little hydraulic fluid right here on our gasket we'll slip this guy back on I'm gonna say we had minimal loss probably lost somewhere less than a quarter of a quart of fluid a little hand tighten this guy now we get the black one off to remove the black when I have the claw so we'll get in here with the claw and it doesn't matter if we dent this thing up a little bit so we'll get in here and twist it off I hope boy that's tight from the factory quite a booger because they put him on so tight from the factory this was the same way with my John Deere Gator it took me like two hours to get the oil filter off because it was so tight from the factory I guess they didn't want Lika a little more fluid coming out of him because he's a little bigger filter the old filter out little oil on there new filter back okay and then we'll just hand tighten both of these guys and then we'll give him one quarter turn after a hand tighten them one thing I failed to mention you to make sure your dump bed is all the way dumped back before you drain the oil out because you have to use the hydraulics in order to raise the bed that means you got to start the engine so you can't start your engine without any oil in it cool the last step in the oil change is replacing this pan just put those five bolts back in very simple we get it done all right cool let's fill it up according to the owner's manual we're at 4.1 quarts now I'm not gonna take this gigantic 2.5 gallon container and try to pour an exact amount in there I've got a transfer container right here that says at full it's at 4 quarts I'll post a link to one of these down in the video description very very handy to have I'll actually post links to all this stuff in case you're servicing the same Kubota that way you'll have it all will just pour in 4.1 quarts so it takes 4 quarts when it's full we'll just go right up to the field line and then a skosh more that's a Canadian term so let's talk about this in my oil change band our funnels each funnel gets wiped out before I use it again in other words I use a degreaser like Toba towels to wipe out my funnel before I put a different type of oil through it so I can be especially obsessive about my oil I don't want any trash or any goop in my oil now I'm gonna wipe off the outside edge of the oil filler neck it had plenty of dust on it and actually have a rag right here wipe that guy off now the filter should catch all that dust and then I'll put our funnel right in place and then we'll pour our oil in okay I'll give you a piece of advice for free right here it's best to not fill up this transfer container all the way full is it makes it quite a bugger to pour your oil in and you run a risk of spillage but this is doing great so we'll put in our 4 quarts fire it up check the oil make sure we're good to go and then there is a cover that goes over top of this take my funnel out I have a rag handy I'll lift my funnel to my rag and replace the cap I always stored this container just like that with a rag right on top of it so we don't get micro dust particles in there I'm working in the shop always like to have a flashlight to look down in here so I'm not taking my dipstick and going bang bang bang bang bang and banging it around in there and getting dirt all over it inevitably a tractor dipstick hits the dirt sometimes it just does so does a UTV dipstick and we don't want to do that if we can help it it's not checking that the oil level is at the exact appropriate place what we're doing is checking to make sure that we're not starting this vehicle with no oil in it so force a habit always check your oil even though you know exactly how much is supposed to go in there as per recommended by the factory so we are totally within tolerance here now this is the X 11:40 which has four seats or two seats so the bed folds up and shortens to make four seats I'll fold this back down and put it back into the to seat configuration which is mainly what we use here on the farm but we needed a four-seater for transporting people in case we wanted to show somebody the place or ride people around we had the little two-seater John Deere 825 I and it just wasn't big enough we couldn't haul people around in it so that's why we got the Kubota and I like it we'll start the machine up real quick raise the dump bed all right so we dumped the bed back for a purpose there's some lubrication points underneath the bed that we need to address and I'm going to check the oil one more time just to make sure the engine oil filters done transmission filters are done we checked the brake pedal parking brake adjust if needed we're good to go on that brake light switch it works front brake case all that stuff is just inspection stuff basically here and then there's some lubrication points on the chassis that we need to get into parking brake lever battery terminal needs to be checked cargo lifts cylinder pivot and that's why we had the bed of the Kubota up and we have drive links that need to be done four-wheel drive link all kinds of stuff that needs to be done here if you're not up for this take it to your Kubota dealer front a arm suspension and rear a arm suspension lots of stuff we're going to get underneath here and start greasing well guys according to this book I got about fifteen or seven tene more lubrication points so I'm going to say goodbye for now because you don't really need to know all that where they all are you're gonna have to look on your own machine I just want to give you guys an idea of what it's like the service this machine if you're considering purchasing a Kubota X 1140 or an RTV 900 or I think there's another 1140 model that came out before this it's all pretty similar so if you're considering the purchase of a Kubota UTV now you know how the first service goes there are some services that you might want to have performed at the dealership if your dealership is close is it worth 50 bucks to have the oil changed in this thing yeah I don't know is it worth 50 bucks to spend 20 minutes of your time to get underneath and learn a little bit about how your machine works I think it's worth 20 bucks it's well worth the life lesson so don't spend the money just pay attention do a good job and take care of your machinery guys thanks a lot for joining me here on the Stoney Ridge farm I hope you enjoyed this little video it's a how to service your Kubota x 1140 this is a 2019 model brand-new 50 hours and we love it thanks a lot guys we'll see you next time on the Stoney Ridge farm all right [Music] here in sweet and some ways those Denise Tony Reed [Music] so we wipe the spot clean we're gonna put the type of oil we used and how many quarts right here with the label maker just makes life easier and as this label wears out we'll just replace it but I find it easier than digging for the book trying to figure out how much oil this thing holds I'll always have it underneath the hood and I do this with all my vehicles just makes good sense 4.1 quarts well change due of 200 hours