Thanks for the thought but at $18.00 a quart Ill pass..... :wink:[/quote]
No kidding! Price sound reasoning why it is that much more expensive than conventional. Consider that it might be that much better or that much more worth it.
Kind of like the silicone brake fluid story.
The first liter of it I bought was Cartel and it was $60.
Turned out to be more than worth it!
Next brand I saw come along was Dow Corning.
Now everyone from Harley to Canadian tire sells it and way cheaper.
I wouldn't use conventional brake fluid ever again if I didn't have to.
Look at your tractor dilema this way. I remember reading where synthetic gear lube could drop the temperature of a fuller transmission in a Kenworth up to 70 degrees on a highway run.
Remembered I mentioned my late Dairy owner friend Roger Hughes who's truck I did the Fuller and the Rockwell rears all expensive Amsoil synthetic? Well Roger told me after he got back from a trip to California that he had easily recouped any extra cash the synthetic had cost . . . it was either that or he said he got back ALL that he paid me . . . in fuel savings, Salt spring Island to California return. At this age stuff sure mysteriously drops out. But I do know he said one of those two things and that there was an outstanding difference that took him by surprise. I was just hoping when I talked him into it, that what I had read about the Fuller and other benefits of synthetic were all true and turns out they were! Obviously his equipment was running cooler, or he wouldn't have recooped any money. It was always like customers saying to me, "At this price it better be worth it." Nobody complained about the price after using it -- finding out that the rave reviews and my sales pitch based on those, weren't just hype!
So your tractor . . .
Even if you bought expensive but worth it, synthetic
and then concluded you had to do the pump, you'd still have the oil. (75W110)
I have a filter on my hydraulics that I'm hoping will keep babying my old vickers Vane and keeping the ram cylinder clean.
As far as a miracle in a bottle, results seemed pretty miraculous to me more than a few times. I remember totally silencing about 10 seriously clacking lifters.
1. My Drilling and Blasting company friend welcomed my pitch to convert his Ford truck so as clean up the engine and lifter body varnish so much with synthetic, that it would silence his 4 or 5 very noisy lifters. It did!
2. In Victoria, I had the bosses cars at Ryan Vending running on synthetic and one of their employees had a fully restored TransAm but with one very obvious sticky lifter. I did my pitch, converted his car and waited. He almost made a liar out of me but finally after a month . . . totally silent!
3. A big Ford station wagon of mine that I did oil conversions out of for a while, had 3 or 4 noisy lifters. Sounded like hammers on a cookie sheet.
After Amsoil 15W40 . . . totally silent in a few days asnd that Ford ran like silk after that. Honest to God! As we used to say.
Your tractor . . .
If the synthetic will obviously be running cooler, as a result of less friction you will have offset your oil's natural tendency to thin out with heat.
SO . . . in that case maybe stay faster flowing when cold and more heat stable when with warm with 75W110.
Then if you do redo your pump, you will still be light and fast flowing with the 75W110 (compared to 140) so you can reuse the oil.
Question . . . my Jube has the isolated oil supply as you know, so can I also run 75W110 (EP) as hydraulic oil?
Thanks,
Terry