Angus Cowman":3sdvo7jd said:
also if you run a tractor 300 hrs before changing oil I wouldn't want it anyway
Well lessee, I have a 4020 JD with 18,000 hours on the original engine, a 930 Case with 14,000 hours on the original engine, an 1135 Massey with 7000 showing on the clock, and 1130 with 12,000 on the clock, and a 2470 Case whose hourmeter stopped working at 9765. All original engines. The 24 doesn't burn a drop of oil. The 1130 uses 1/2 litre between 400 hr changes. The 1135 came to me burning 1 litre every 100 hours and its still burning 1 litre every 100 hours when haying. I change it every 300 hours because its being used more heavily. The 930 uses 1.5 litres every 400 hours. The 4020 doesn't see much use anymore, so I really don't know what its using.
300 hours between oil changes is NOTHING for a tractor thats being used. be nice, if we changed more often, we'd be changing oil constantly. We'll have 400 on the 24 just seeding, and we're not going to stop seeding to dump the oil again. It'll get done after season. My customers that seed 10 or 12000 acres sure as heck aren't dumping oil every 200 hours. Many of the 4WDs will get a change at the start of seeding and not see a change for 4 weeks of steady 18 hour days.
You can believe what you want about oil analyses. I know better. I had customers that used the $18.95 oil analyses and got false reads. I rebuilt three 5.9s because the customers had bad oil reads come back. When I pulled them down, they were PRISTINE.
Rod