I wouldn`t do it, but most of my side dump work has been short haul, 20-30 trips per day, with lots of spreading, and the oil gets HOT! A PTO pump is anything but cheap anymore, and as long as no one gets stupid and tears off a hose, the hyd. oil is a very small portion of the budget in a trucking fleet. Seems like too much of a risk, and it also prevents you from ever hooking on to anyone elses trailer who does not want junk oil in there rams.
If the oil will no longer serve to lubricate the engine you drained it out of, why would you expect it to lubricate a pump with as tight or tighter tolerances than an engine?
PS. SS55, a wet kit is just as you guessed, a hydraulic system installed on a truck, usually part-time, engaged off the PTO on the transmission. Usually to run either dump trailers or hydraulic low-boys.
This post was edited by sixtyninegmc at 11:53:55 02/23/12.
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