Last year I bought a 1988 tractor with only 900 hrs in an estate (deceased) sale. What I found was sludge in the bottom of the engine pan where the contaminants in the oil had settled out due to non-usage. A little snake oil and a couple of oil/filter changes and the sludge was gone and the oil stayed clean. The other fluids I changed (didn't bother checking for sludge) and they weren't all that bad. Contaminants in fluids will separate or settle to the bottom in long term sitting. Most fluids contain detergents to contain contaminants (and possibly other additives) in suspension. As a result, I try to run my seldom used tractors for half an hour about every month and that seems to keep things running for me. In short, I don't have a problem with it.
Other than the above, the only other thing needing attention were the wet brakes but a little usage and they quit making grinding noises (rust removal from parts not submerged in the oil sump) and the slight jerking smoothed out, and I had to slip the clutch a bit to get the rust worn off the flywheel. Again, not a problem.
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Today's Featured Article - More Memories of a Field Service Engineer - by Brian Dye. Introduction: The author worked for one of the largest Ford tractor dealerships in England as a trouble-shooter on tractor engines, hydraulics and combine harvesters from 1963 to 1972. In 1972 he became a dealer manager and finally left the dealer net in 1975 to run his own electronic design and manufacturing company. [Editor] We live right in the middle of Norfolk. The dealership that I worked for sold Fordson Tractors from the 1920's and some of t
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