Thanks grm61! I'm amazed at how difficult it is to find this information. In my area, none of the recommended fluids are available. We do have a Napa store and I'll be stopping there for my fluid change.
Yep, same here but we do have a Napa.
Remember to do the finals as well, before you do your Hyd service, run the tractor around a bit and get everything stirred up, so that the crap that's in there gets suspended in the oil.
For a drain pan for the trans, I cut off a 35 gallon plastic garbage can about a third of the way up, I jacked the tractor up 4 inches or so to get it under the trans. It holds a lot of oil and it comes out in a hurry.
I used a smaller pan on the finals.
I used a 80/90 synthetic blend for the front axle and finals since I had it on the shelf. (pull the front tires off, it makes it alot easier to do the finals)
The manual says you can use 80/90 or tractor fluid..My thoughts are the 80/90 may give a little more cushion to the gears when the front end is in a bind etc.
The napa oil buckets are white, I poured the the old oil back into the pails to take to the recycler.
The pails sat in my shed for a couple weeks before I took them to dump the oil.
Quite a bit of crap had settled out.
Sometime when I'm thinking about it ,I'll take a couple pictures of the bucket bottoms for the non believers that choose to skip doing the HYD fluid at 50, and just change filters.
Oh, and I used 5w40 Shell Rotella T6 synthetic in the motor, it seems quite happy with it, cold weather starting is excellent:thumbsup:
