Is UDT good for M5040?

[fried1765]

YOUR investment is only good, IF you sell it!
The oil has not changed in value, nor lubrication

How about if/when I USE it?
Use it today.....my cost was $100 per pail.
Buy it today, to use it today, my cost would instead be $140 per pail.
40% value increase.

 

[fried1765]

I think performance is subjective - you would assume, I know - crazy word choice - that an oil that pours a bit better in cold, and does not break down as fast WOULD in fact increase performance, that performance simply being it has a little less wear on all the parts.

Maybe.......
Maybe even more so,..... if comparing Alaska with Florida?

 

[TheOldHokie]

How would you actually be able to PROVE.... "better performance" ?

Plenty of hard laboratory testing that demonstrates oils with better viscometric properties reduce wear in engines. drivelines, and hydraulic systems.

You doubt?

Dan

 

[fried1765]

Plenty of hard laboratory testing that demonstrates oils with better viscometric properties reduce wear in engines. drivelines, and hydraulic systems.

You doubt?

Dan

No I don't doubt that!
If SUDT-2 will extend wear life from 10,000 hours to 20,000 hours, why should it make a difference to any of us?
If we were running power plants 24/7/365 it would/could make a difference.
NOBODY is going to use a Kubota tractor like that!

 

[TheOldHokie]

No I don't doubt that!
If SUDT-2 will extend wear life from 10,000 hours to 20,000 hours, why should it make a difference to any of us?
If we were running power plants 24/7/365 it would/could make a difference.
NOBODY is going to use a Kubota tractor like that!

And nobody will ever see that kind of difference in any application.so lets dispense with that silly straw man.

The difference in any tractor wiil be marginal but not negligible. If the costs of oils were all the same its a no brainer - use the oil with better properties.

But better properties come with a cost premium. That makes it a cost benefit problem. If in your opinion the added cost is not justified by the marginal performance gsin use a cheaper oil. You dont have to limit your analysis to UDT vs SUDT2. There are dozens of perfectly acceptable universal tractor transmission oil products. I am sure there are people that have made the determination that Traveler Premium UTTO from TSC is suitable for use in their Kubota snd offers the best bang for their buck. I would not tell them otherwise.

Simple enough?

Dan

 

[fried1765]

And nobody will ever see that kind of difference in any application.so lets dispense with that silly straw man.

The difference in any tractor wiil be marginal but not negligible. If the costs of oils were all the same its a no brainer - use the oil with better properties.

But better properties come with a cost premium. That makes it a cost benefit problem. If in your opinion the added cost is not justified by the marginal performance gsin use a cheaper oil. You dont have to limit your analysis to UDT vs SUDT2. There are dozens of perfectly acceptable universal tractor transmission oil products. I am sure there are people that have made the determination that Traveler Premium UTTO from TSC is suitable for use in their Kubota snd offers the best bang for their buck. I would not tell them otherwise.

Simple enough?

Dan

Yup!

 

[GeoHorn]

Yup!

Exactly the way I view Standard vs Synthetic motor oils. My 25-year-old 1992 Cherokee using WalMart SuperTech cheap motor oil and still used less than a qt between 4K mile oil-changes at 330-Thousand Miles …when it was rear-ended by a woman texting-while-driving a Class-A motorhome pulling a race-car on a car-hauler trailer.

While I cannot say that standard cheap oil enabled it to go that distance …. I CAN say it didn’t PREVENT it….and I saved a couple thou$and dollar$ in the interim.

(The most serious repairs that car underwent was a water pump/radiator at 20 years and front wheel bearings at 250K miles.)

 

[PoTreeBoy]

YOUR investment is only good, IF you sell it!
The oil has not changed in value, nor lubrication

At least his investment is liquid .