Oil change interval on 1066

e · Jan 19, 2011

Quick question - how often is the engine oil and filter supposed to be changed on a 1066?

Thank you!

DeltaRed · Jan 19, 2011

100 hrs,or annually,wichever comes first

e · Jan 19, 2011

Thank you!

LarryT · Jan 20, 2011

I went to the Rotella T and actually I do it every 200 hours but I also change all the filters. Now most change the filters anyway but I have seen some that would change oil every 100 hours and the filters every 200 hours. Why? I don't know. but another thing I do is cut open the filters and stretch out the paper element and look at it visually and then run a magnet under it to check for metal. I try to make a record of how much metal is detected and reference it the next time. What the magnet will do is make the steel and iron filings stand up so you can see them. Now a sure thing that you should be concerned about if you can read a part number, find out what is broken or getting ready to fail.
Just some things I do. LarryT

P.S. By the way I now run the Rotella T in all my equipment and I have had real good results. It is a real stable oil and will tolerate viscosity destabilizers ,like small amounts of fuel and other thinning agents and suspends contaminates and carries them right to the filter.I really like it.

LarryT · Jan 20, 2011

And don't forget the daily check of your air filter bowl. And don't forget the air filter check every 50 hours. I blow it out with compressed air after I tap the heavy stuff out on a clean hard surface.

LarryT · Jan 20, 2011

Dirty air filter will wipe out an engine faster than a contaminated oil filter.

Brownie 450 · Jan 20, 2011

Depends if it is a work or play unit. Ours is a work hard tractor, so it gets oil & filters changed at 100 hours. Dealer says using IH oil you can go 150 hours. Any oil in hard conditions needs to be changed at 100 hours--I don't care what the dealer says.

dhermesc · Jan 20, 2011

On our larger diesel tractors (886 on up) we would go 200 hours for oil and filters. In the winter we backed it down to 150 hours. Still changing the oil 4-10 times a year depending on the tractor. We also used Archer synthetic oil. When our 1486 was tore down for an overhaul it's main bearings were still in factory spec - the pistons and cylinder walls showed "some" wear but nowhere near what they were used to seeing on a tractor with 10,000 hours. The 886 we had was overhauled twice - the first time the shop said it was almost a waste of time and money, the second time it had broken rings and the crank had to be ground - not bad for 20,000 hours plus of hard use.

The big V8 in our 4768 was only run 150 hours between oil changes - we were warned it wasn't going to stand up as well as the I6 engines. We traded it at 11,000 hours - the engine had never been cracked open and it ran "ok".

Never had a failure due to lubricant and we usually ran 10,000 hours between overhauls.

soybeanjoe · Jan 20, 2011

Op Manual says 100 hrs or annually, which ever comes first. Best bet is to have the oil sampled and go off those results. If you don't want to pull the drain plug you can buy a suction gun, looks like a grease gun with a long flexible tube that you can run down the fill spout & pull a sample.

We've found that usually we have to change oil sooner than the OEM's recomendations on newer equipment that has long interval recomendations (300-500 hrs) but can go a little longer on the shorter recomendations ( +25-50 hrs) like your 10. Really, it all depends upon the enviroment that the engine is working in.

Owen Aaland · Jan 20, 2011

When IH came out with their Number 1 diesel oil part of the advertising was by using it you could extend the change to 200 hours. By changing the additive packages to better match the engine it was being used in allowed the increase in hours. Previous to that time they had been trying to use the same oil in both gasoline and diesel engines. That resulted in serious valve problems in the gas engines.

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