Field work

[repete]

Wife caught me working on 5 of the 40 acres today with the faithful little L2550DT. Turned 6,330 hours today.

 

[5030]

Up there with me and my M9's in hours. Kubota's are very reliable in my view.

 

[tacticalturnip]

That sure is a solid little tractor.

 

[Thomas]

Like the old saying goes..."If you take care of it,it will take care of you" and by the looks you have.

 

[repete]

Like the old saying goes..."If you take care of it,it will take care of you" and by the looks you have.

Oil change every 100 hours and regular grease. Two clutches I believe, a lot of $ in the front axle from asking it to lift too much and reinforcing of loader arms. Fortunately, beyond the valve covers being off for valve adjustment I have never had the engine apart including fuel injectors etc.

It is a tough little guy and will serve well with some care.

 

[Slowpoke Slim]

Oil every 100 hours?

Wow.

 

[workinonit]

Yeah, I don't do that either. That would be a lot of oil changing for me.

 

[Rockbadchild]

100h sound like a lot but I change mine once a year at the end of the summer ( I don't use it during the winter or very little) regardless of the hours I change it at that time, it's mostly would be anywhere between 100h to 200h. My owner manual ask for every 200h I believe.

 

[repete]

I look at the posts about electronics and air pollution stuff and a host of other items that may cause a new tractor to go to the shop for repair so for about the same cost as 15 minutes of shop time I can do an oil change to keep this purely mechanical tractor running.

 

[scootr]

Oil costs too much to throw it away unused IMHO 100 hour oil changes are not needed but won't hurt anything but your wallet. lol
Neighbor has had a 30 hp Kubota for about 20 yrs now. .. I 've told this before but last year I asked if he was doing his own oil changes. He said no, I've never changed the oil.
One extreme and the other yet both tractors are running.

 

[repete]

Oil costs too much to throw it away unused IMHO 100 hour oil changes are not needed but won't hurt anything but your wallet. lol
Neighbor has had a 30 hp Kubota for about 20 yrs now. .. I 've told this before but last year I asked if he was doing his own oil changes. He said no, I've never changed the oil.
One extreme and the other yet both tractors are running.

Same number of hours?

Since my used motor oil becomes furnace oil it is not really being thrown away.

 

[sea2summit]

6.3k hours, glad to finally have her broken in?

 

[JONNY BOYYY]

Wife caught me working on 5 of the 40 acres today with the faithful little L2550DT. Turned 6,330 hours today.

dam--do you allow deer hunting there by a non smoker and non drinker there ?

 

[Hay Dude]

Yeah, I don't do that either. That would be a lot of oil changing for me.

I’d have 10 oil changes per year!
4 is enough for me.

 

[Darrellq]

Oil costs too much to throw it away unused IMHO 100 hour oil changes are not needed but won't hurt anything but your wallet. lol
Neighbor has had a 30 hp Kubota for about 20 yrs now. .. I 've told this before but last year I asked if he was doing his own oil changes. He said no, I've never changed the oil.
One extreme and the other yet both tractors are running.

Not doubting what he told you, but I call BS on that. 20 years, no oil change, it wouldn't still be running.

 

[Rockbadchild]

Not doubting what he told you, but I call BS on that. 20 years, no oil change, it wouldn't still be running.

you would be surprise some of these old equipments are very tough, although there is probably some exaggeration but I can believe it … especially if it doesn’t run a whole lot in that 20 years.

 

[TerryR]

Not doubting what he told you, but I call BS on that. 20 years, no oil change, it wouldn't still be running.

Couldn't tell you about no oil changes in 20 years, but I bought my JD 870 new in 1997, and have had the oil changed three times, most recently last year. It runs fine.

 

[sportscarclinic]

I do 50 hour oil (100 oil filter) changes on my 1993 B2150, just like the guy I bought it from. Takes me less than 15 minutes and $20-25 (Valvoline Premium Blue on sale) to suction the old oil out through the dipstick tube, and dump new in. Might need it, might not, but I'm guessing the guy that buys it when I'm ready to sell, will give me most of my oil money back.

 

[scootr]

I have always wondered if you remove oil through the dipstick hole are you leaving sludge and debris in the pan that would flow out had you warmed the engine and pulled the plug?
P.S. Neighbor is a cheap oddball and he did tell me the 20 yr no oil change story. I can confirm the tractor runs less than 25 hours a year IMO.

 

[sportscarclinic]

I always suction it out when the oil is hot, takes a lot longer otherwise. The original owner did drain plug changes at 50 hours, and the tractor was around 2000 hours when I purchased it. I've done a couple since. On that frequency of changes, I think it's highly unlikely there's any sludge in the pan, but I honestly haven't bore scoped it to check. My feeling is that thickened sludge in the bottom of the pan isn't a problem in general, in any case, as long as it's undisturbed and below the pick-up of the pump. It's not coming out when you pull the drain plug either, and isn't circulating when the engine is running.