Oil weight Question

[Kubota_Man]

I see that Kubota sells both 10-30 and 15-40 Kubota brand for the BX24....

What is the difference between the two? Is one of them better than the other? And why? If you go from one to the other, what are the potentual benifits and problems?

Just so we don't open a big can of worms.....This isn't a question of brand or type as I know everyone has their favorite and are very passionate about what brand they use.

 

[hodge]

Your owners manual should have a chart, with temperature ranges and what applicable weight oil to use in those ranges. Just asess what your conditions are, and use the chart to decide which oil to use. Both are good, if they are used in their engineered conditions.
On the chart, they probably overlap- in most conditions, I would imagine that 10-30 and 15-40 will both work fine for you.

 

[GWD]

If you put enough hours on to change the oil twice a year then you might consider both.

Idaho is cold in winter and warm in summer - this is probably not a revelation to you.

10-30 in winter, 15-40 in summer. There is no problem going back and forth. Just be sure the oil is "C" rated.

If you only change oil once a year I'd go with the 15-40 seeing as how you have a lot of ground engagement implements and apparently mow. Just let the tractor warm up sufficiently when its snowblower time.

 

[Kubota_Man]

Idaho is cold in winter and warm in summer - this is probably not a revelation to you.

You nailed this one Summers around here can get up to 110°F and in the winter possible as cold as -15°F. Yeppers that is a 125°F temp diffrence, so we do have some extemes here. And yes my Kubota gets used year round.