Oil Change intervals?

[DarkBlack]

I go strictly by my manual’s stated hours , which is 150 for mine. It ends up being about every 2 years. It’s stored inside.
400 hours is a lot of diesel burned in your engine on one oil change. If it was a car doing 65 mph, that would be 26,000 miles

I’m not a big believer in changing oil by elapsed time because of condensation. You have the same condensation in your oil, whether your oil is new or old. Every time you run it up to temperature, it evaporates out , and the process starts all over during engine cool down, if the weather conditions are right.

 

[BnRidge]

Something I wonder about (guesse I'm not the only one), 200-400 hrs in a road vehicle, at 60mph, would equate to 12,000 to 24,000 miles. Is that a legit comparison? If so, who changes their oil at 24,000 mile intervals. Doesn't sound reasonable. Manuals here say 1yr or 400 hrs. I go with the 1yr or 150hrs.

 

[RjCorazza]

Something I wonder about (guesse I'm not the only one), 200-400 hrs in a road vehicle, at 60mph, would equate to 12,000 to 24,000 miles. Is that a legit comparison? If so, who changes their oil at 24,000 mile intervals. Doesn't sound reasonable. Manuals here say 1yr or 400 hrs. I go with the 1yr or 150hrs.

I believe hours to miles in the average non commercial vehicle is generally estimated at 35 mph. So 200-400 hours would be more like 7,000 - 14,000 miles.
I routinely go over 20k miles on two of the three road vehicles that I maintain. My personal truck gets changed with the other two cars, but it usually has 10k or less in several years.

All that said, there are many factors to consider, with level of comfortability being one of them. To each his own.

 

[5030]

Oil & filters are cheap compared to engines.

There you go.

 

[dodge man]

I hate to go much over a year on things. I have a low use car and went quite a bit over a year once, car probably had 3000 miles between changes and it looked pretty black. If in doubt you can send in a sample for analysis but unless your tractor hold a lot of oil it’s probably more cost effective to change it.

 

[Tpondel]

Have a Deere tractor and Zero mower. Annually I run them each about 50 hours. I Change Oil and filters every September when weather still nice.

I enjoy working in the barn with the music cranked! Then celebrate with a beer and cigar.

 

[Quickster2]

Cub Cadet oil & filter every 50 hours, Kioti every 75. ATV's (all Honda's) every 500 miles. Cars & trucks every 5000 miles. I usually buy filters in advance and mark on each one the hours of the next oil change (s). That way I can see when they were installed and when the next interval is.

 

[nickmags]

is your tractor stored inside ?

Yes, but an unheated garage. Our winters do not compare to Ontario. It gets cold here, even down to zero Fahrenheit, but does not last more than a couple of days then warms back to near or above freezing. Really cold days I put a work light with (don't tell Joe Biden or his EPA cronies) an incandescent bulb on the motor.

 

[Williy]

I didn't know that it came in a 16 gal keg

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willy

 

[1Mech]

Something I wonder about (guesse I'm not the only one), 200-400 hrs in a road vehicle, at 60mph, would equate to 12,000 to 24,000 miles. Is that a legit comparison? If so, who changes their oil at 24,000 mile intervals. Doesn't sound reasonable. Manuals here say 1yr or 400 hrs. I go with the 1yr or 150hrs.

It all depends on your driving. If you start your car and get on the highway, drive for a 1/2 hour or more is a lot easier on your oil, engine and transmission than the person who gets in their car, drives to the grocery store, shops, then drives to the hardware store, then maybe the donut shop, then heads home. Never fully heating up the engine and other components. For cars and trucks, I usually recommend an oil & filter change twice a year, regardless of milage. The first driver in my example may end up with 10,000 mile oil change interval with no degradation of the engine components. The second driver might only have 1000 mile oil change interval, but already used up their oil's life.
Same with a tractor. If you get on it and work it all day long, you can safely use the 400 hour interval. But if you get on it and only use it for a short while each day, you would want to change oil more often, especially in the winter!
Modern engines have much more efficient crankcase ventilation than the older engines (pre PCV days). Remember the old road draft tubes with an open filler cap for adding oil!