Mix hydraulic fluids ?

[Soundguy]

you can use UTF in the hyds, diffy, and trans on a NAA. 3 sumps. generic utf is fine for most temperate climates. If you are in an area that gets to 0, I'd spring for the 35$ + utf oils.. not the 19$-25$ utf oils due to the viscosity #'s. I've yet to find a seller ( botteler actually ) that does not have published specs.. even the cheap 303 pure flow and accell stuff, if you do a 1 minutes search onlne, you can get their specs. ( and yeah.. those are the cheap ones.. )

 

[fortec]

Personally if I were getting a UTTO I would get one that is reputable such as Mobil 424 for instance. I'm a little biased because that is one of the fluids that I happen to know the formulation.

 

[Soundguy]

I guess it all boils down to application.

If I'm refilling the loader hyds on a 70 year old 1500$ farm tractor that works in florida.. 19$ oil is fine.

If I'm changing out the oil in a 2014 40,000$ 100hp tractor with wet brakes and wet clutch packs... I'll use the 60$ dealer stuff.


All application...

 

[fortec]

Just be careful what you buy. There are indeed a number of Universal tractor fluids around but not all are made equal, regardless of the claims on the label. I would advise that you stick to reputable brands, such as Mobil, Shell, etc.

 

[Soundguy]

If you know of many that don't meet their advertised specs, why have you not gotten rich filing class action lawsuits?