I've always gone back and forth on synthetic fluids. I've never been dissapointed in synthetics but have always doubted they were worth the extra coin. Well I change out my Kubota M7040 yesterday from whatever the dealer put in it to Super UDT2. That is supposed to be a full synthetic transmission fluid. Ok I just bushhogged some gosh awful thick stuff. Mowed about 3 hours. The engine ran cooler much to my amazment. I was mowing the exact same fields/speed/height and if anything this was thicker than usual. Engine used to run just a hair's width over a temp mark on the guage. Today it never ran up to middle of that mark. Not a lot but very noticable. In fact I never dreamed it would make the engine run cooler and actually puzzled over it a bit trying to remember if I had cleaned the radiator out or what the deal was. So since the engine is working less (apperently) there should be a saving in fuel. I imangined it used less fuel but no way to be certain. Anyhow thats it. I'm a synthetic man from here on out.
I have a Kuhn tiller that taxed my GL5040 GST tractor. Its the 84 inch tiller on a 44 pto tractor. When I first got it it would sometimes start to lug that puppy down in deep soil. Well I went and changed the side gear oil and the gearbox oil as per the manual after 10 hours of tilling. I decided to put in some Amsoil sever gear 75/90 gear oil as its a messy job and I wanted to extend my hours on my gear oil. I noticed right off that it was like my tractor had gained a couple of horsepower. The stuff that came out of it was pretty thick. It has never lugged that tractor again even in the same gardens/plots that it did before. Even with that experiance I was still surprised at today's mowing. Everything get synthetics from here on out. I'm a believer!:grinch:
I have a Kuhn tiller that taxed my GL5040 GST tractor. Its the 84 inch tiller on a 44 pto tractor. When I first got it it would sometimes start to lug that puppy down in deep soil. Well I went and changed the side gear oil and the gearbox oil as per the manual after 10 hours of tilling. I decided to put in some Amsoil sever gear 75/90 gear oil as its a messy job and I wanted to extend my hours on my gear oil. I noticed right off that it was like my tractor had gained a couple of horsepower. The stuff that came out of it was pretty thick. It has never lugged that tractor again even in the same gardens/plots that it did before. Even with that experiance I was still surprised at today's mowing. Everything get synthetics from here on out. I'm a believer!:grinch:
