[AT] tractor oils maintenance?

[Mike M]

Dean, I wouldn't worry too much about hours, even with using your 
tractor around the farm like you do, I doubt you'll actually run it 
enough hours to change it in a years time. That being said, I suspect 
the way you are using is similar to how I use mine. Sometimes when I'm 
mowing it will run for hours and get nice and hot, other (many) times it 
gets started, runs for 10-20 minutes and gets shut off. That is actually 
harder on the oil than running for long periods of time under heavy 
load. If the oil doesn't get good and hot, it doesn't burn off the 
impurities like fuel and moisture. I would go with an annual change, and 
not worry about the hours. I like to do mine in the fall after a good 
heavy run, that way all the contaminants come out with the oil, and 
don't settle over the winter.

Mike M


On 6/8/2016 7:35 PM, Dean Vinson wrote:
> 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
>>>
>>>
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>>> Subject: [AT] tractor oils maintenance?
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>>> 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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