Bobcat CT2025 50HR Maintenance question

Bobstercat · Aug 13, 2021

Hello, I have a Bobcat CT2025, coming up on 50 hrs. The manual isn't really clear but I've contacted Bobcat and the dealer- I'm due to change the front axle gear fluid, the hydraulic fluids/filter, and engine oil/filter. I ordered all of this from Bobcat (nearly $275) just for parts. I have a manual gear driven version- anyone had any issues doing this yourself? I'm fully comfortable doing the engine oil/filter and gear oil. Just have never done hydraulic fluids change.

Also, does this seem extremely excessive- it states the next full fluid change is the next 100 hrs? Seems like a huge waste of fluids as I thought most tractors goes 1000 hrs before changing hydraulic fluids? My commercial John Deere mower hydrostatic transmission calls for the first change at 750 hrs?

Thank you very much for input!

MoKelly · Aug 13, 2021

My CT 235 calls for oil/filter change every 100 hours and hydro/filter change every 200 hours.

MoKelly

MIkeWard · Aug 13, 2021

Bobcat does for no charge to you. Keep the stuff you bought for next time and have them do it
check attached pdf file

DieselBound · Aug 13, 2021

Look closely. Maintenance tends to go: 1) filters only ; then 2) filters AND fluid. I remember doing a double-take with the 50hr maintenance on my NX; specified filter only (pretty sure it was hydraulic filter(s)- Kioti didn't require the fluid to be changed). I think there's something similar with engine oil and filter: I know that the oil change interval is a lot longer on the newer, cleaner-burning diesels.

MIkeWard · Aug 14, 2021

I had the 50 hr service done in April. I have a HST so they did that fluid and filter too.
When I called about it they told me engine oil only at 50 hrs but when I checked online it said a lot more/ Had to argue with the dealer/

ROUSTABOUT · Aug 14, 2021

Our newest except one cab tractor is 1994. Never changed hydraulic oil. We have so much hydraulic attachments, they have so called old fluid, it mixes back in. We do change filters. We do change it in the skid steer, but we had four layer houses to clean out. But I'll save that oil and put it in a tractor.No problems. I'm on a working farm. 50,000 chickens laying 30,000 eggs a day. He runs 100 head of cattle. Plus few acres of garden. I work with another that has 3,000 cattle. Another that has 75,000 birds and 100 head. Took his Bush Hog back yesterday. It needed a new stump jumper and blades. Plus I welded several cracks up. Bush Hog brand is not what it used to be. That stump jumper and blades was over 500 dollars. I may take the old one down when it's bad weather and press it out and weld. Then put some road grader blade on the wore out blades. Key is to make them weigh the same. Hanging cotton scales will do it. Oh yeah, our oldest tractor is 1981, still can crank and go right now. My 71 year old mother uses it to plow the garden. Dad leaves the cultivator on it.

Bobstercat · Sep 12, 2021

Thanks for the responses, as best I can find and according to the dealer- I'm die for engine oil and filter, hydraulic fluids and filter, and front diff change fluids. Any advice on how I perform the hydraulic fluid change?