Re: ATF vs hydraulic fluid

Posted by Bruce on February 14, 2004 at 12:28:09 from (24.213.27.142):

In Reply to: ATF vs hydraulic fluid posted by Bruce on February 14, 2004 at 09:46:35:

Here is the long story. I contacted Bobcat corperate office, after three people did not know the answer, they said " someone will get back to you." Then a contractor friend of mine stopped at my office, and he said he uses hyd oil, but he gave me the number to his dealer. Dealer looked in his service manual ( which I have too) and said " the manual says use 10w30 oil, but we use hyd oil" I pointed out that the manual says "use 10w30 then later on says use ATF" it was the first time he noticed the error in the manual. Anyway, he convinced me to use hyd oil.

Now, three hours after calling Bobcat Corp, a service person calls me, and I explain the issue, he says " boy...that machine is older than I am, I think you should use hyd oil, but then again, ATF would be better for the clutches, I don't know, let me check with some other service people..." He calls me back 1/2 hour later ( I give them credit for even dealing with my old machine) And now he says...."use ATF"

I call the dealer back and say to him..."guess what?? Bobcat says to use ATF..not hyd oil" Dealer says..." No Kidding???? why? Here I am a dealer, and I don't know what I am suppose to be using!!!! I said.. "now you do..."

So, long story, but after listening to all the differant views on this, then considering the viscosity issue, I thought I would post the question here and hopefully get the view of those with more experance than I have, because, at this point, I think either oil would work, just which one is better than the other??

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