New Tractor Break-in procedure

[RalphVa]

Extremely conservative. Any cars or trucks you buy today, you just drive them normally and change at the normal interval. On the last 2 new cars I've bought, that interval has been 10k miles.

Don't see why tractors are any different in the engines.

 

[5030]

Wow, 50 comments and all one has to do is follow what is stated in the owners manual. Sheesh.

 

[LouNY]

This is the recommended operating procedures for my Kubota M6040. Right out of my Op Manual.

The last paragraph is the one I go with,
any new engine gets it's first oil change around 500-1000 miles 0r 10-20 hours, on rebuilt engine I change the oil after a 30 minute breakin run.
Then when it goes in service the next change is about 500-1000 miles or 10 hours or so. Then they go to normal change intervals
which for me are less then the maximum specified in any owners manual.
I also know that my vehicle milage is all considered severe by the manuals definition, dirt roads and field roads, short trips, high idling times.

 

[LouNY]

Wow, 50 comments and all one has to do is follow what is stated in the owners manual. Sheesh.

And several years!!!

 

[5030]

And several years!!!

Kind of like the other forum you and I are on.. Bringing old posts back to life for more hashing over...lol

 

[LouNY]

Same questions, same answers and opinions, just new readers.

 

[5030]

Same questions, same answers and opinions, just new readers.

Not exactly. Bill is a much better moderator than the ones on here. Much fairer. More old junkers on there too. Some of the threads I read, I'm amazed at the junk they buy.

 

[sixdogs]

Kind of like the other forum you and I are on.. Bringing old posts back to life for more hashing over...lol

I read once that magazine articles were mostly forgotten after six months and could then be repeated or rewritten. New people start and old people stop.

This thread is 9 years old so oil requirements and procedures have expired and changed several times since then. Everyone has been at least momentarily right.

 

[RalphVa]

The last paragraph is the one I go with,
any new engine gets it's first oil change around 500-1000 miles 0r 10-20 hours, on rebuilt engine I change the oil after a 30 minute breakin run.
Then when it goes in service the next change is about 500-1000 miles or 10 hours or so. Then they go to normal change intervals
which for me are less then the maximum specified in any owners manual.
I also know that my vehicle milage is all considered severe by the manuals definition, dirt roads and field roads, short trips, high idling times.

No. Last 2 car engines got their regular oil changes at 10k miles. That's what was in their manuals. Do not think tractor engines should be any different. Should be able to go 400 hours like all changes.

 

[LouNY]

Maybe your manuals read different then mine,
look at your severe engine operating conditions and then tell me what conditions your tractor runs at.

If you want to go 400 hours between changes go for it,
but I never will.
And, as far as I'm concerned you are doing anyone who reads and follows your directions
a huge disservice.

But that is my opinion, and what I will recommend,
you are entitled to yours (as wrong as it may be to me)