[Full Moon]

Any advice for removing the drain plug on a BX2360 radiator? Looks very difficult to get to. Manual just says remove it without more information. I did a search and noted a lot of people have had this question but didn't see a solution other than to ignore it and remove the house and block drain instead. I'd rather do it the correct way if possible (not to mention I'd have to figure out where the block drain is?).

Thanks in advance.

 

[Knott]

The way l did mine was to get the pinch clamp tabs to the top, 12 o'clock position, then pinch the tabs with an 8" waterpump plier. Slide the clamp to the end of the spigot cap then pull the cap off. It is a tight spot but take your time & don't break the spigot off.

 

[Full Moon]

Thanks Knott. After my post, I looked at it further while I was changing the fuel filters. Thought getting to the plug looked even worse than I originally thought.

Funny that you mention getting the clamp to the 12 position because right now they're in the six, and I was guessing they'd need to be moved somehow to get it. To me it looked like coming in from the passenger side with a really long pliers (hadn't thought of a water pump pliers) would maybe be the way. You did it from the top though huh...Good to know.

 

[orangetractor]

I've flushed my radiator 4 times so far. I pushed the tabs around to 10-11 o clock position and squeezed them with long handle channel locks. If you squeeze the clamp all the way you can slide it all the way off. I do this laying on the floor under the tractor, MMM and FEL off. Takes a couple tries going off and on, so be patient. Then I use a wide flat screw driver to push the cap off, that's not too hard. Reposition my catch pan cuz its alway not quite in the right place, then I get a rag and wipe the antifreeze off my face and floor.

 

[Full Moon]

Wow you had me laughing there OT. I told my family we will need to do an extra well water test after all this tractor maintenance and everything that leaked no matter how careful I was (I have to do mine on the gravel drive so no easy clean up).

My gosh trying to imagine how you did that from under the tractor. I don't think I could even find the plug from there.

So a couple days ago I stopped at the dealer to ask their opinion and see if they had a tool they may let me borrow (doubtful but for the thousands I've spent there thought worth the try). I don't have any of these tools you guys used (that would work) and hate to buy one for such infrequent use.

Anyway, service guy told me he doesn't bother with the plug and takes off the bottom hose. I had read a coupe negative opinions about doing it that way and he pointed out its the lowest point so would get all the coolant out.

That's what I ended up doing. Total ridiculous mess where I ended up with almost none in the bucket, but otherwise went ok. I admire you two for doing it the correct way though.

 

[orangetractor]

Wow you had me laughing there OT. I told my family we will need to do an extra well water test after all this tractor maintenance and everything that leaked no matter how careful I was (I have to do mine on the gravel drive so no easy clean up).
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That's what I ended up doing. Total ridiculous mess where I ended up with almost none in the bucket, but otherwise went ok. I admire you two for doing it the correct way though.

Oh, well let me, tell ya, that's just the beginning of my mess. I Start my major maintenance, (radiator flush, engine oil, tranny oil, fuel filters, air filters, axle gear oil). on a nice clean garage floor and 3 fresh rolls of Bounty quicker picker uppers and end up with a nice sheen of antifreeze, diesel fuel, super duty hydro oil, engine oil, gear oil, and a pile of used highly flammable nasty paper towels, and a tee shirt and shorts i have thrown out cuz my wife won't let me back in the house. I always start saying "this time i'm going to be real careful and not make a mess", never works. After the radiator mess. I do the tranny mess. But my oil pan I'm never going to get rid of cuz i used it since my first car and am too cheap to get a new one isn't big enough so I have to dump it 3 times to empty the tranny. I pull the drain plug and the hydro comes out like , bloop, bloop, bloop.
Then i pull then dip stick to let it out faster and it blasts out like a fire hose. After about 4 seconds i pick up the plug to put it back in and the steam of oil blasts it out of my hand and its in the bottom of the pan, I grab it out and get it in to stop the flow, but not before the pan is over flowed. 2 more times, thats the first roll and half of bounty and 2 coats of floor semi gloss sheen. Next is the diesel fuel sheen. I cannot figure out how to get the bottom filter off and a new one on and not poor a quart of diesel on my face, then on the floor. I do the bottom one first since its harder, buy the time I get to the front filter on the engine, i just say F it, i just pull the lines off and dump the filter out on the floor, what difference does it make now. That's a big mess, and a whole roll of Bounty, and the diesel coat is high gloss. 1/2 roll of Bounty left but the rest is not too bad. There's some mess from the engine oil cuz I'm quite sure when i take the filter off where the oil is going to dribble down the side of the engine. 1/4 roll cleaning engine and floor and back to semi gloss sheen. The axle gear oil, dribbles out and I just can't get the pan pushed tight enough against the inside of the tire, so it dribbles on the top edge of the pan, about 1/2 goes in, 1/2 on the floor, but what the heck i'm happy its not on my face and i got 1/4 roll of bounty left. Then I start it up, check its not leaking stuff, never does, put then engine cowl and grill guard on, and roll it out. Then take my tee shirt off and use it to make the floor sheen a constant semi gloss over the whole stall. I have epoxy on the floor so it doesn't soak in and looks nice and new and the BX is happy.

See how happy he looks.

 

[Full Moon]

Oh my gosh I was laughing so hard I just about cried. Literally. I can totally identify with that.

Every time I think it will be different and I start out and always the same. I think about what my skin has soaked up and it makes me cringe. Here I always feel stupid like I'm such an idiot and the only one that had these problems! I went through about three rolls of paper towels too. Let me tell you how much fun this is on gravel!

This was actually the first time I'd ever done a coolant change. I'm all worried about if the bucket is big enough and what I'm going to do with the used coolant. Well I ended up with about a teaspoon in the oversized bucket so not much left to worry about.

One thing I can tell you is for the bottom fuel filter I used a straight pliers to clamp the line from the tank and hardly had much of a spill.

Anyway, yes our tractors love us for the mess even if our wives don't. ?

Nice looking tractor!

 

[APinNY]

:sidelaughFunny stuff! I posted a question about changing the antifreeze a while back, but no one had a good solution. From your posts, it seems nothing has changed. I still haven't changed it. I have changed the fuel filter and engine oil without too much of a problem. My manual says 400 hours for the hydro fluid.

 

[Nouveau Redneck]

If there's enough room you could install one of these in line with the lower radiator hose:

 

[RDM]

Oh, well let me, tell ya, that's just the beginning of my mess. I Start my major maintenance, (radiator flush, engine oil, tranny oil, fuel filters, air filters, axle gear oil). on a nice clean garage floor and 3 fresh rolls of Bounty quicker picker uppers and end up with a nice sheen of antifreeze, diesel fuel, super duty hydro oil, engine oil, gear oil, and a pile of used highly flammable nasty paper towels, and a tee shirt and shorts i have thrown out cuz my wife won't let me back in the house. I always start saying "this time i'm going to be real careful and not make a mess", never works. After the radiator mess. I do the tranny mess. But my oil pan I'm never going to get rid of cuz i used it since my first car and am too cheap to get a new one isn't big enough so I have to dump it 3 times to empty the tranny. I pull the drain plug and the hydro comes out like , bloop, bloop, bloop.
Then i pull then dip stick to let it out faster and it blasts out like a fire hose. After about 4 seconds i pick up the plug to put it back in and the steam of oil blasts it out of my hand and its in the bottom of the pan, I grab it out and get it in to stop the flow, but not before the pan is over flowed. 2 more times, thats the first roll and half of bounty and 2 coats of floor semi gloss sheen. Next is the diesel fuel sheen. I cannot figure out how to get the bottom filter off and a new one on and not poor a quart of diesel on my face, then on the floor. I do the bottom one first since its harder, buy the time I get to the front filter on the engine, i just say F it, i just pull the lines off and dump the filter out on the floor, what difference does it make now. That's a big mess, and a whole roll of Bounty, and the diesel coat is high gloss. 1/2 roll of Bounty left but the rest is not too bad. There's some mess from the engine oil cuz I'm quite sure when i take the filter off where the oil is going to dribble down the side of the engine. 1/4 roll cleaning engine and floor and back to semi gloss sheen. The axle gear oil, dribbles out and I just can't get the pan pushed tight enough against the inside of the tire, so it dribbles on the top edge of the pan, about 1/2 goes in, 1/2 on the floor, but what the heck i'm happy its not on my face and i got 1/4 roll of bounty left. Then I start it up, check its not leaking stuff, never does, put then engine cowl and grill guard on, and roll it out. Then take my tee shirt off and use it to make the floor sheen a constant semi gloss over the whole stall. I have epoxy on the floor so it doesn't soak in and looks nice and new and the BX is happy.

See how happy he looks.

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ROTFMAO - you guys are funny. I think this is the beginning of the next prime time most watched TV show. What a topic for a great show. With a little creative video camera work, you guys could be the SCUT gods!

 

[RDM]

If there's enough room you could install one of these in line with the lower radiator hose:

Hey Nouveau - is that real, or the byproduct of a little creative air brushing? Never seen anything like that, but I sure has heck like the idea.

 

[orangetractor]

ROTFMAO - you guys are funny. I think this is the beginning of the next prime time most watched TV show. What a topic for a great show. With a little creative video camera work, you guys could be the SCUT gods!

I don't know why everyone thinks this is funny, we do serious businesses here and this is serious sheit.... I mean, look at the picture of that thing NR posted, that's a serious looking thing.

 

[orangetractor]

Oh one thing I forgot to say about the radiator flush, is I did find an easy way to flush out the expansion bottle. Just disconnect then hose to the radiator cap at the cap end and un thread it, let it drain out into the pan. The first time I un bolted the bottle and poured it out, but this way is easier I think.

 

[APinNY]

That's a good idea orangetractor, and it isn't even funny. :thThumbsU

 

[Full Moon]

Yes I think many of you that have experience would find great joy in watching me do many of these things!

Apiny I am at 350 hours and was going to do the hydraulic fluid a bit early with everything else. However once I bought it and realized how expensive it is I decided it will wait till spring and won't do it early. I did the filter though. As for the radiator, I'm not telling you to do it the way I did it (wrong way) but there really was nothing to it other than the mess. How get from what I'm reading even doing it the right way leads to mess.

OT - I didn't know the bottle was a separate flush. When I removed the bottom hose everything emptied out.

Interesting NR. If the coolant change was something I needed to do more often that would definitely be something to consider.

 

[Nouveau Redneck]

Hey Nouveau - is that real, or the byproduct of a little creative air brushing? Never seen anything like that, but I sure has heck like the idea.

Yes, it's real:

JEGS Inline Radiator Hose Drain | JEGS Performance Products

 

[Full Moon]

Just curious, how would one install that? I get the hose would be cut, but I would think something hard would need to be added to the ends of hose for this piece to connect to? NR do you use something like this? Such a simple yet good idea.

 

[Nouveau Redneck]

I have used something similar in an upper radiator hose to connect a temperature sender to run a temperature gauge in a tractor that did not have one.

Cut the hose and the cut ends of the hose go on the outside of the in-line drain device, and then you use regular worm gear style hose clamps to clamp the hoses down tight.

 

[Knott]

If spillage is an issue for you get some spill kit pads from your local ag or truck shop. I put two down on the floor under my catch pan to soak up any spills. They only soak up oil & fuel not water. I have been using the same two pads for 6 months, under any thing that can splash over the catch pan, car truck mower ect.

 

[orangetractor]

I'm waking up this old thread because I just turned 500 hrs and did the full maintenance again. I'm getting better at it, this time much less mess, still messy but not the total environmental disaster I usually do. Here's what i did different. On the Hydo change, before the oil gets too close to the top of my pan, I stick the dipstick plug back in, that slows the flow way down so it's just going blup blup blup... instead of blasting out, makes it easier to get the plug back in so in can dump the catch pan before it overflows. On the bottom fuel filter I used a vice grip to clap the hose shut upstream of the filter to shut the flow off, some diesel still got on the floor but only about 5% of what I did before. Only needed about 1/8 role of bounty for that. No improvement in my radiator change that was still a mess. Engine oil same but that's not too bad.

One thing that's seems like everyone has trouble with is filling the axel gear oil back up after draining because it's hard to get the air out. What I did here was using the 1 quart gear oil squirt bottles from Kubota. I first filled up the final drive gears at the wheels by squirting gear oil in the vent holes on top of each wheel hear housing, then fill up the axel in the regular place, this seemed to work much better.

Also I found if you wax the inside of the cowling where the bugs get splattered on from the fan you can wipe them off easy with a paper towel.

No pics this time because it looks just like the old pics.

500 hrs, 6.5 years, 0 issues.