RTV 1100 Hydraulic Oil Tank

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The RTV 1100 Transmission holds 3.2 gallons of SUDT.</P>


The seperate hyd. oil tank holds 4.65 gallons or 18.5 qts. of SUDT.</P>


My question: What is the hyd oil tank for. Just to raise and lower the bed and for the brakes? Or does it some how feed into the transmission?</P>


BTW The cost for filters 1 for engine oil, and 3 for hyd. system and 10 gallons of SUDT and 2 gallons of 15/40 oil. = $277.02 + tax.</P>
 
<FONT face="Times New Roman">It's funny that you posted this as I was just going to raise this issue about the RTV900 maintenance intervals. After the recent post about engine oil types and weight I was looking at the manual for cold weather oil weight requirements.There, the manual says to change the hydraulic fluid (I'm not talking about the transmission fluid) every 200 hours. <?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /><o:p></o:p></FONT></P>


<FONT face="Times New Roman">Frankly, I don't think that's necessary as long as you change the filters. It's easy for Kubota to state this requirement but I'd like to hear an engineering explanation that justifies this requirement. I have other equipment ( that actually uses their hydraulic systems under constant load) thathas 500 and 1000 hour fluid change intervals. In this day and age I'm not a big fan of using up petroleum products unless really required. </FONT></P>


<FONT face="Times New Roman">As I stated in earlier posts, these things sip diesel.But I'm finding out that the economy is tarnished since they are hogs on scheduled fluid andfilter changes. </FONT></P>


<FONT face="Times New Roman">They'd do us all a favor by publishing a light use and a heavy or dusty use maintenance schedule. <o:p></o:p></FONT></P>





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I agree with you 100% </P>


I do believe in changing the oil & tranny as the manual says, BUT, like you said, I myself , have alsorun onother heavy equipment way over 1000's of hours on hydraulic systems with constant loads. Now I do change hydraulic filters about every 500-700 hrs on other equipment . And has never have had any trouble !!!! As far as the hydraulic lifts & systemson the RTV's , all I would ever do is just change the filter. I believe a person would know if he would EVER have to change that fluid. And that would be WAY, WAY down the road .......</P>
 
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