Pre 50 Hour Service Benefit
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JerryG
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1. In years past it was easy. The tractor was worked or was run in on the dynamometer. The way that the majority of compact tractors are used for mowing or light stop and go work with blades etc it isn't as easy to be definite. The surest way is to take compression a reading on these tractors or the easiest way is to run it the way the manufacture says to with the suggested oil for at least the 50 hours recommended. As far as I am concerned, I would never put synthetic oil in anything that didn't have it as a factory fill until at least a hundred hours. It is much much cheaper to be safe than sorry.MikePA said:
2. I think that Amsoil is a good oil, but I wouldn't believe anything on their site or in print or maybe I should say very little. That is a personal thing so take it for what it is. In more and more cases it is safe. The problem is we don't know which ones except where it is a factory fill. Most of the higher tier tractor companies as well as auto companies, I am sure have changed over to the type of machining and ring material that is needed to use synthetics, but it is hard to tell for sure. Again safe or sorry. I have seen owners told that their engine is smoking and is using oil because of what they have done. It isn't a cheap fix. I personally don't see what the big deal is to wait to 50 or 100 hours. BTW, I do use synthetic oil in my tractor and also in all of our autos.
The reason that I piped up was the blanket statement that synthetic oil was safe for all new engines.
I said it was OK to use it from the first oil change forward.