daugen
Epic Contributor
Buppies, good luck today, hope everything goes easily. If you are stuck inside, might as well be raining.
Wow, lot of rain North of me. We are getting on and off showers here but not very much yet.
I will be going out in between the showers today to try to do a little more hoeing.
Am also going to transplant several dozen Hale cantaloupe plants that I planted by seed to
some areas in the fenced garden that either didn't produce or like pak choy are all done.
got the oil changed in the Kubota tractor yesterday, that was easy. Hardest thing is carefully pouring old oil into recycling containers.
Pan is pretty heavy with 2 gallons of oil in it.
For over five years most of the time this tractor has had too much oil in its crankcase. Done by two different Kubota dealers.
They always overfilled, at least a half inch above the line, and there is already a full two inches below that in the low to high range.
Just zero reason to overfill unless they are just dumping what the manual says in there and not even checking the oil level.
I figured half an inch over wouldn't hurt anything but just surprised me dealers would consistently do this.
So it was nice when I was done to pull the dipstick out and see the oil level where it should be, just a hair below full.
I've never ever had to add oil to this tractor, it was overfull enough...but I doubt with 475 hours it uses any oil at all.
Today in the rain I hope to crawl around under the Super A and try to tighten some pan gaskets and whatever else is leaking under there.
I also bought some straight 40W oil at TSC, the conventional old stuff, and will do an oil change on that at some point. Until then I need to
refill it with 30 weight to replace what leaked out in my corn field. Thankfully with the offset tractor frame, the leak was to the left of most of the corn.
And it couldn't have been too much, just annoyed that this was the number one priority when it went into the shop for repairs, stop the leaks.
They did, for five hours. I think the engine got hot enough that things expanded and gaps were created.
A dumb question...if you mix straight 40 weight oil with straight 30W oil, what do you get. I doubt 35W but would an old wide tolerance engine like
this care having slightly different viscosities flowing through it? The current oil is clean, wondering if I can dump 40W on top of 30W.
More concerned with downsides...
Wow, lot of rain North of me. We are getting on and off showers here but not very much yet.
I will be going out in between the showers today to try to do a little more hoeing.
Am also going to transplant several dozen Hale cantaloupe plants that I planted by seed to
some areas in the fenced garden that either didn't produce or like pak choy are all done.
got the oil changed in the Kubota tractor yesterday, that was easy. Hardest thing is carefully pouring old oil into recycling containers.
Pan is pretty heavy with 2 gallons of oil in it.
For over five years most of the time this tractor has had too much oil in its crankcase. Done by two different Kubota dealers.
They always overfilled, at least a half inch above the line, and there is already a full two inches below that in the low to high range.
Just zero reason to overfill unless they are just dumping what the manual says in there and not even checking the oil level.
I figured half an inch over wouldn't hurt anything but just surprised me dealers would consistently do this.
So it was nice when I was done to pull the dipstick out and see the oil level where it should be, just a hair below full.
I've never ever had to add oil to this tractor, it was overfull enough...but I doubt with 475 hours it uses any oil at all.
Today in the rain I hope to crawl around under the Super A and try to tighten some pan gaskets and whatever else is leaking under there.
I also bought some straight 40W oil at TSC, the conventional old stuff, and will do an oil change on that at some point. Until then I need to
refill it with 30 weight to replace what leaked out in my corn field. Thankfully with the offset tractor frame, the leak was to the left of most of the corn.
And it couldn't have been too much, just annoyed that this was the number one priority when it went into the shop for repairs, stop the leaks.
They did, for five hours. I think the engine got hot enough that things expanded and gaps were created.
A dumb question...if you mix straight 40 weight oil with straight 30W oil, what do you get. I doubt 35W but would an old wide tolerance engine like
this care having slightly different viscosities flowing through it? The current oil is clean, wondering if I can dump 40W on top of 30W.
More concerned with downsides...
