Every year about this time I line up all the iron and spend a half-day working my way down the line doing oil changes, topping off hydraulic fluid, lubing zerks, etc. Every few years (this year will be the year) I also replace antifreeze while I'm at it. It's pretty efficient to do it production-line style. Does anyone else here start the spring that way?
- Thread starter Teakettle
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I do my oil changes in the fall so there is good oil in the engines while the vehicles set idle during the winter. So the corrosive material or other foreign material that had gotten in the oil doesn't sit in there all winter that could eat up aluminum parts. I also sharpen lawn mower blades or put new ones on in the fall so I'm ready to go in the spring.
TDFYeah, I do that too, but a bunch of things here don't have hour meters so it's convenient to do it in the spring all around. Also, with regard to doing it in fall, we have fairly wet winters here and if I change oil at the end of the season I end up with lots of condensation in the nice new oil when I wake up things in March.
Bob Harvey
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I change when dirty. Moisture has never been an issue. The idea of changing every year "just because" it a waste of effort and $$. My $.10
JUST what I have BEEN told ,If you have temp changes over the winter, condensation will cause water droplets to build up inside the engine. Always told to do it in the spring for that reason. Again it is yours do as you want, just what I have been told all my life (70+) years. 43 engines around here so we have to try and do it on some schedule by use or hours.
Old weldor
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First time you get the engine good and warm wouldn't the moisture be gone?
fixerupper
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I'm serious about oil changes. I have a large drain pan on wheels rigged up to a suck pump that sucks the oil out as fast as it drains and pumps it to waste oil storage. Oil is in the bulk and easily accessed so changes don't take long to do. All of the putt around tractors get an oil change once a year whether they need it or not. Two of the two bangers have been in the family since new and have had regular scheduled oil changes since new. Both are high houred but don't have the ugly wear problems other tractors the same age have, testament to the benefits of timely oil changes. The field tractors are changed every 100 hours. Oil is cheap compared to wear related repairs when you keep tractors as long as I do. My lowest houred tractor has 10,000 hours.
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