Komatsu 600-211-1340 Engine Oil Filter

The Style Word That Decides the Order

Komatsu calls 600-211-1340 an Engine Oil Filter in Element style, 330 mm high, dual media, black. Read that against the other numbers in the same 40-tonne service set and the difference is obvious: the fuel pre-filter is Cartridge-Element at 343 mm, the main fuel filters are Cartridge-Element at 278 and 285 mm, the hydraulic element is Glass Fiber. This one is a bare Element, and Komatsu does not even publish a protective cover field for it.

In practice that means the element goes inside the oil filter housing on the engine, and the gasket supplied with it is the one that matters at the sealing face. It also means this number cannot be visually checked against the fuel elements in the same delivery: two black cylinders, 330 mm against 343 mm, thirteen millimetres apart on a bench in poor light. Keep them in their packaging until they go on the machine, because the difference is not something a mechanic should have to measure at 6 a.m.

500 Hours, With the Oil

The maintenance selector prints engine oil change at 500 hours and engine oil filter change at 500 hours as separate lines — same figure, two operations. Komatsu's PC400-8R brochure maintenance table carries the same pairing. The full default set from the machine's monitor:

Item	Default interval
Engine oil change	500 h
Engine oil filter change	500 h
Fuel pre-filter change	500 h
Fuel main filter change	1,000 h
Hydraulic oil filter change	1,000 h
Hydraulic tank breather change	500 h
Corrosion resistor change (machines with corrosion resistor)	1,000 h
Swing machinery oil change	1,000 h
Final drive oil change	2,000 h
Hydraulic oil change	5,000 h

Source: Komatsu PC450-8 operation and maintenance manual, maintenance selector defaults (same 8-series 40-tonne family as the PC400-8); Komatsu PC400-8R brochure CEN00273-05. Read 5 November 2026.

The oil element sits at the bottom of that list in hours, and that is deliberate: the oil is doing the hardest work in the engine — soot from combustion, heat from a machine that pulls at full load for ten hours, and whatever dust gets past the air cleaner. A filter that is changed with the oil is cheap. A filter that is changed every second oil change is a decision someone made to save one item, and it usually shows up later as wear rather than as a failure.

Dual Media, and What Is Not Published

Komatsu's media field for this article says Dual, which tells you the element uses two media layers rather than one. It does not tell you the micron rating, the efficiency, or the beta ratio, because Komatsu does not publish those figures for this number — and we do not borrow them from a filter maker's cross-reference. A cross-reference tells you what an aftermarket supplier believes fits; it is not the OEM's specification.

That matters when a fleet is comparing quotes. Two suppliers can both print "replacement for 600-211-1340" and ship very different elements. What you can check without a lab is the part itself: height at 330 mm, dual media construction, one gasket, black exterior, and the number on the box matching the number in the parts book. Beyond that, buy from a supplier who will tell you which factory made the element rather than which catalogue listed it.

Matching It to the Machine, Not the Model Name

The Komatsu part page for 600-211-1340 is a specification page — it prints dimensions and media, and no fitment list at all. That is normal for the brand: fitment lives in the parts book for the serial number, not on the public catalogue. So the sequence is fixed. Read the machine serial prefix from the plate, find the oil filter line in the parts book for that serial, and confirm the number. If the machine has had a short block or an engine replacement, the engine serial is the second thing to check, because the oil filter follows the engine.

Two shortcuts that work in the field: the old element's height (330 mm for this number) and the housing it came out of — an Element-style filter seated in a housing rather than a can threaded onto a stand. If the element you removed has a thread in its base, you are looking at a different family of machine and a different number.

Building the 500-Hour Kit

For a PC400-8 or PC450-8, the 500-hour service is engine oil, this oil element, the fuel pre-filter 600-319-4540 and the hydraulic tank breather. The 1,000-hour service adds the main fuel element and the hydraulic element. Most of the fleets we ship to order the two services together and hold one spare oil element per machine, because the 500-hour item is the one that arrives while the machine is working and the store is closed.

Send the serial prefix and the machine hours, and the kit can be priced as a set with the intervals marked on each box. It is a small thing that stops a 343 mm fuel element going into an oil housing.

FAQ

Q: What is the Komatsu 600-211-1340 engine oil filter?
A: Komatsu publishes 600-211-1340 as an Engine Oil Filter in Element style: 330 mm high, dual media, black exterior, one gasket. Note the style word — Element, not Cartridge-Element. Komatsu also publishes no protective cover field for this number, unlike the fuel and hydraulic elements in the same service set. It is the oil element on the 40-tonne SAA6D125E-5 class.

Q: How often is 600-211-1340 changed?
A: Every 500 hours, together with the engine oil. The maintenance selector on the 8-series 40-tonne machines prints engine oil change 500 h and engine oil filter change 500 h as separate lines but the same figure, and the PC400-8R brochure maintenance table agrees. The 500-hour items are the tightest group in the whole schedule — oil, oil filter, fuel pre-filter and hydraulic tank breather all sit there, against 1,000 hours for the main fuel and hydraulic elements.

Q: Is 600-211-1340 a spin-on filter?
A: No. Komatsu lists the style as Element, and Element means a bare element that goes into the machine's oil filter housing rather than a canister that threads onto a stand. The gasket count is one. The cartridge-style numbers in this engine family — the fuel elements at 278 and 343 mm — are a different style and live in different housings, so the word on the catalogue page is worth reading before you order.

Q: Will the PC300-8 oil filter 6742-01-4540 fit?
A: No. The PC300-8 on the SAA6D114E-3 engine uses 6742-01-4540 for engine oil. It is a different engine family with a different oil filter arrangement, and the number belongs to that machine, not to the 40-tonne class. Komatsu's part page for 600-211-1340 publishes no fitment list at all, so the parts book for the serial number is the only reliable check.