jdom84
Gold Member
If I were one who rarely changes fluids I would have an oil analysis program going on.
This is exactly right and what industry/commercial does, and what we do at the mine, otherwise you would go poor changing fluids all the time. But that's industrial settings and things are done much different... I do find it interesting though, when people recommend there way of doing things based on just because they do. How can you trust anything anyways says who doesn't have an investment in your expensive machine? That's why I think its best to just follow the manufactures recommendations, because if something goes wrong... its on them.
It might be rare that this will happen but you should keep in mind that if you do change your fluid more often then recommended and air is introduced to the system and the pump or hydrostat is ran for periods of time with out any fluid, damage can occur. Each time you change your fluid and this happens, you can incur damage and shorten the life of your hydraulic system. I have seen it on this forum where people have changed their fluid and afterwords the machine will not move or hydraulics do not work properly, that's usually because air is in the the system and parts are spinning without proper lubrication... if this happens, turn off your machine immediately and figure out what needs priming.
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