New Tractor Break-in procedure

[sixdogs]

The thing that always caused me to do the 50 hour service was the fact, not only of small metal and sand particles but also solvents and lubes used in assembly. I had a larger Deere once that required the break-in oil to stay for the first 100 hours but I wanted to do a change at 50 hours. I just changed with fresh Deere break-in oil and went to regular oil at 100 hours. Worked for me.

 

[Quebecguy]

BTW, I haven't seen special "break-in oil" used in about the last 50 years. I do remember it before then. But today I would simply use the recommended oil.
rScotty

This is from the Operator's Manual of my John Deere 5205 which I bought new about 10 or 11 years ago:

"New engines are filled at the factory with John Deere ENGINE BREAK-IN OIL..... Continue to use ENGINE BREAK-IN OIL until 100 hours is reached." (those capital letters are from the original text)

It goes on to say to keep using break-in oil for 2 or 3 oil changes if the engine has been under light load.

 

[Catman8]

This is from the Operator's Manual of my John Deere 5205 which I bought new about 10 or 11 years ago:

"New engines are filled at the factory with John Deere ENGINE BREAK-IN OIL..... Continue to use ENGINE BREAK-IN OIL until 100 hours is reached." (those capital letters are from the original text)

It goes on to say to keep using break-in oil for 2 or 3 oil changes if the engine has been under light load.

Part # YT26661. TY26663

 

[sixdogs]

You have to give credit to Deere for having the best of quality in lubricating oils and greases. They seem to have every base covered and I think that's a good part of their following. BTW, Quebecguy, the 5205 is a nice tractor and getting hard to find.

 

[ray66v]

My thoughts exactly I can just here it now, your tractor failed because we found tiny metal partials in the system, did you by chance do your 50 hour service

Are their threads on TBN, where this type of failure has happened? Or, threads where any manufacturer, disputed any owner on their maintenance, resulting in refusal of a warranty repair as a result? I'm not seeing them.

We are not seeing any number of oil related failures, even on older machines.

Early catastrophic failures, are the result of manufacturing defects. There isn't anything to debate when parts fail that early. It would be ludicrous for them to even suggest it.

And they also know, when it got out on internet, it would cost them 1000 times more in business, than they could ever loose on the repair.

 

[Catman8]

I bought HY-Guard trans/hydraulic fluid and it's clear in color, my tractors sight glass is red and I looked at all the tractors on the JD lot and the sight glasses were red also. The parts guy said he does not sell red dye. So why is the HY-Guard clear and the sight glass red.

 

[rScotty]

This is from the Operator's Manual of my John Deere 5205 which I bought new about 10 or 11 years ago:

"New engines are filled at the factory with John Deere ENGINE BREAK-IN OIL..... Continue to use ENGINE BREAK-IN OIL until 100 hours is reached." (those capital letters are from the original text)
It goes on to say to keep using break-in oil for 2 or 3 oil changes if the engine has been under light load.

Well, there you go... O).. I haven't bought a new JD in a long while. In fact the last 3 new tractors I bought were not JD* and they did not specify any special break-in oil. So I haven't had occasion to use it. But I agree it's hard to go wrong using the oil recommended in the manual...
rScotty

*although I'll confess that I went to look at JD's offerings first, as always....and decided against them reluctantly. Although we were not price shopping, we noticed that a person does tend to save money with some other brands - except for Cat.

 

[Catman8]

I bought HY-Guard trans/hydraulic fluid and it's clear in color, my tractors sight glass is red and I looked at all the tractors on the JD lot and the sight glasses were red also. The parts guy said he does not sell red dye. So why is the HY-Guard clear and the sight glass red.

:anyone:

 

[RLstangs]

The factory uses a leak find dye to find leaks on the final assembly line inspection.

 

[rScotty]

:anyone:

From the way your question is worded I'm guessing that the sight glass isn't normally red color. It sounds like you are saying that it looks like something has dyed the sight glass red.
If that's so....well, this is just a guess....but are all the other tractors you are looking at with the red sight glass used tractors? The reason that I ask is it used to be pretty common practice to mix ATF with the hydraulic fluid - there are even some folks who still do - especially in the winter or real cold climates. And ATF has a stong red dye.
You'll get the full range of opinions on whether mixing was a good thing to do or not. BTW, it wasn't done to save money; ATF tends to be more expensive than most hydraulic fluids.
Now that there are more reasonably priced low viscosity hydraulic fluids and even some reasonably priced synthetics I imagine the practice will die out.
rScotty