50 Hr Service

[THEPARTYHOUND]

Yeah wooly, no problem. I changed filters at 50 and oil at 85. I saw another post where someone had found a bunch of shavings that settled to the bottom of their oil after changing it and that made me decide to change mine. I had shavings settling to the bottom as well, but I didn't give it much time to fully settle out. It was much darker than I had expected.

 

[THEPARTYHOUND]

That Amsoil is pretty good stuff too. That is one nice thing about running a synthetic...hydraulics don't take forever to warm up and work right when its sub zero and the cows are hungry!

 

[Diggin It]

Anyhow, on to the point of this post. I drained and refilled my transmission/hydro fluid tonight with 85 hours on the clock and I'm reporting back. I found TONS of shavings on the magnet

I think I'd be showing that picture (and the shavings if you still have them) to my dealer. All I found on my magnet was what looked like mud, fine shavings more like metal dust off a file or sandpaper. Yours looks like something off a metal lathe or drill press.

 

[THEPARTYHOUND]

I was thinking that they were left in there from the manufacturing process. I just cant figure how some gears meshing together and breaking in would cause the spiral metal worms like you would get when drilling a hole. I do not have the shavings but I do still have the oil.

 

[Diggin It]

^^ I still think I'd send them the pictures just to have a note on the file in case something comes up later.

 

[woolyAcres]

Yeah wooly, no problem. I changed filters at 50 and oil at 85. I saw another post where someone had found a bunch of shavings that settled to the bottom of their oil after changing it and that made me decide to change mine. I had shavings settling to the bottom as well, but I didn't give it much time to fully settle out. It was much darker than I had expected.

So even that change to Rotella HD quieted down your machine? Just think how smooth and quite it will be when you get your Engineered oil in there. Again, thanks for posting back and letting us know what's working (and not) for you.

 

[THEPARTYHOUND]

Yeah, no problem wooly, glad to give back what I can! I'd give it a try in yours too if you haven't already. That was money well spent in my opinion! I do look forward to seeing if it quiets down even more with the Lubrication Engineers fluid in there, but it would surprise me as it was already a night and day difference swapping out the factory fluids!

 

[Freep]

Yeah, no problem wooly, glad to give back what I can! I'd give it a try in yours too if you haven't already. That was money well spent in my opinion! I do look forward to seeing if it quiets down even more with the Lubrication Engineers fluid in there, but it would surprise me as it was already a night and day difference swapping out the factory fluids!

Please give us an update when you change it again. I've acquired 10 gallons of Rotella HD for my initial change and will be doing it soon as well.

 

[bvajgrt]

I have a question, I have a backhoe attachment with my CK35. How would I go about flushing out the fluid in the backhoe when changing out the hyd fluid ? I know changing out the hydro fluid wont get all the old fluid out, but the backhoe holds quite a bit of fluid, and I would rather know I am running most of the same fluid anyway.
Thanks in advance.

Brian

 

[Diggin It]

You don't.

If you have reason to suspect it may be contaminated, the only way I know of is to change it, run everything through all the motions a few times, then change it again.