Hydraulic fluid

[blueman2]

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Looks good. It's $89 on amazon. Tractor Supply has Mobil Delvac for $60 and their Travelers premium for $48, and O'Reilly's is $58 but they don't want to sell it to me for some reason. Friday, they had 1 5gal in stock and said they would call and have more on Tuesday, they didn't, and trying to buy online, I could get one pickup in store but not 2, said it's unavailable. Weird, that's a very normal, typical thing they do. Try to buy on line have it shipped, it says 'eligible for free shipping', go to checkout and it says 'not available for free shipping'. I hate it when stores do that, they need better shopping software. Especially considering when I tried to keep going to see what shipping would cost, it crashed and sent me to an 'oops' page, so, oops, I'm going elsewhere.

Bait and switch

 

[ismilelots]

Soon I'll be changing my fluids, 3520H, and planned to go with what I used last time, O'Reilly Premium Tractor Fluid. At the time, when I was looking for what to use, I distinctly remember it needed it to be 'antifoaming' and that significantly narrowed the choices available, but when I checked the manual, all it says is "Quality tractor fluid." Is antifoaming important? Any idea where I could have gotten this idea that antifoaming was a requirement? "Quality tractor fluid" ain't exactly the most specific of specifications, anything I should really look for or avoid?

I buy mine from the dealer. It's till under warrantee and I don't want to give the manufacturer any excuse to not cover a failure and no excuse for the dealer to not do the work. The comfort is worth the little extra it costs.

 

[mechtheist]

My dealer is gone, the closest two official Branson dealers are actually different locations of the same RV dealership, Branson doesn't show up on their main web page, there's an actual tractor dealership not much farther. Although this area is very rural, it's mostly ranch land, not crop land, and ranchers don't use tractors as much as farmers do, I'm thinking that's why there aren't many dealers around here. I'm well out of warranty so it's not a concern.

 

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I got some JD dye and it's amazingly colorful. My previous refill after knocking loose a pipe resulted spilling some unknown amount and I couldn't see the oil in the sight glass and overfilled.

Not to worry if this happens; worst case is a waste and a mess as the excess comes up the fill tube and spills.