[AT] tractor oils maintenance?

[Dean Vinson]

How do folks keep track of engine hours on old tractors?   

Dean Vinson
Saint Paris, Ohio


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Every hundred hours for me.   The recent hay making put me at 95 hours.  The tranny and diff were due within 50 hours so I just changed all the fluids.   I change hydraulic fluid more frequently than recommended since I use the county's rented grain drill and and other borrowed/rented equipment that have hydraulic cylinders.  Since there is no telling the condition of the fluid in that equipment, I feel like I am giving my hydraulics a dirty fluid transfusion every time I am use them.

Spencer Yost

> On Jun 5, 2016, at 7:25 AM, Stephen Offiler <soffiler at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 100 hours is a good oil change interval.  That is the specified 
> interval for my modern-ish diesel tractor as well as my very modern 
> zero turn mower.  If this were an automobile, 100 hours translates 
> into roughly
> 3000-3500 miles.  Old tractor engines have rings that just don't seal 
> as well as modern equipment, so the oil contaminates quicker.
> 
> SO
> 
> 
>> On Sun, Jun 5, 2016 at 6:48 AM, Dean Vinson <dean at vinsonfarm.net> wrote:
>> 
>> Herb, interesting question.  I just bought two oil filters for my 
>> Super M and two for my 620, with the intention of changing oil in both of them now
>> and then having a filter on the shelf for next year also.   But as I think
>> about it they are each unlikely to see more than a hundred hours in 
>> that year, maybe not even that much.
>> 
>> "Once per year" appeals to me because it seems like it would flush 
>> out any accumulated condensation water, and because it's easy to 
>> remember, and because it's what my dad does.  But I don't know that 
>> it's strictly necessary, probably very conservative given the tractors' actual usage.
>> 
>> Dean Vinson
>> Saint Paris, Ohio
>> 
>> 
>> -----Original Message-----
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>> at-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com] On Behalf Of Herb Metz
>> Sent: Sunday, June 5, 2016 6:14 AM
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>> Subject: [AT] tractor oils maintenance?
>> 
>> Cecil & Others with seldom used antique tractors, What rules-of-thumb 
>> do you follow for oils changes on old tractors still in good 
>> condition but only get used less than one hundred hours per year? I 
>> have a couple Allis G’s in this limited use situation; none are 
>> heavily loaded. Also an Allis
>> D-14 gets less than two hundred hours per year. Herb(GA)
>> 
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