L-2201 Engine Oil Capacity HELP!!

[MrChuck]

Hi there,

I'm brand new to this forum and located in Australia--and yes, it looks like I have a grey L2201DT. This is a lovely little tractor (we call him Sid) but the only manual I have is a battered photocopy for an L245. We acquired the tractor with the olive farm we bought in central Victoria (that's a State, folks).

I've seen some articles about similarities between the 245 and 2201 but I went to change the oil today--hasn't been done in five years it turns out--and I think the similarities may have ended.

The 245 manual states that the crankcase takes around 6 litres of oil, but I only got about half that out of it. OK, perhaps it's used a heap of oil and this job is seriously overdue after all. I put 6 litres in and the oil level is waayyy up the dipstick so I thought I'd better stop there and get help. Since the 245 manual is also telling me the transmission takes 23 litres, things get a bit scary...though that could be the right amount for all I know.

Does anyone know the _right_ amount of oil to put in the crankcase and transmission, and does anyone know why those b*****ds at Kubota won't post PDFs of their manuals on the net? Even better, does anyone actually have a PDF of the correct manual for this most excellent tractor?

Since I need to slash the grove right now (we've had heavy rain and hot weather, the weeds are shoulder high), any help will be most appreciated as I'm more or less stuck unless I can get some right advice.

MrChuck

[pat331]

MrChuck, I'm not familiar with the 245 or 2201, but this reply will pitch it to the top of the heap and maybe someone who is familiar will respond! Good Luck!

[Service Dept Vic]

Back in 1979 waaaayyyyyy before the gray market tractor bullsh*t was born, Kubota published an L-Series Tractor Maintenance Schedule and fluid capacities chart for the benefit of their newly minted franchise dealer network.

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Printed in full color on stiff glossy cardboard the backside of the maintenace schedule contained in both Imperial and Metric, the fluid capacities of the individual tractors built to date.

Listed among it's brothers the L-185, L-235 and L-245 Kubota tractors, was the the L-2201!!

You've got to remember that this was 'back in the day' and before Kubota corporate made the marketing decision to banish several of their JDM models to relative obscurity by insisting that the gray market models were 'different', which we all know now is total crap.

Here's a copy of a very rare document that records a time in recent history when all Kubota tractors were equally loved and were the pride of the KTC regardless of the country they were shipped to.

L-2201 capacities in second to last column. The cooling system on the L-245 and L-2201 are 6.6 litres, both have identical crankcase capacities at 4.9 litres.

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[MrChuck]

Thank you Service Dept Vic! Interestingly, though, the L2201DT doesn't seem to exist according to the Capacities chart--nevertheless, I have one! However I see that between the F and the DT models the difference for the transmission is pretty consistently 1 extra litre in the DT, so that should be close enough.

This forum totally rocks.

[Service Dept Vic]

"F" is the 2 WD version of the L-2201, so the only capacity missing from this chart is the front axle and front bevel drives.

Everything else is same-same.

[MrChuck]

OK, job done: oil changed (oil level now spot on), filters changed, Sid the tractor is working and happy. So am I.

Thanks again OTT and Vic!

[buildspacetrains]

Hi MrChuck,
Just been reading your post. I'm out in Redcastle (near Mt Camel on the Heathcote-Colbinabbin Rd. Small world a. I've got a L2402 DT tractor. Your right, this is a great website and I've learnt a lot about these Kubota's.
Cheers, Richard.

[Service Dept Vic]

That looks like a unit that came from Bill Koncz at Diesel Traders!