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Auto Parts / shop to perform your maintenance oil too often, or indeed, not often
tasks. Make sure that your shop can enough. Either way this information
accommodate the largest piece of could save you money.
your farm equipment and that it has
suitable doors to get the equipment ENGINES
in and out of your shop easily. Also
stock up on supplies and autos that
Engines be they diesel or gas are
you are most likely to use. If you are
generally at their most powerful and
building or fitting out a shop from
scratch, designate a space in the fuel efficient when they are tuned
optimally. Your farm machinery
center of your shop for the largest
piece of your equipment; allocate a dealer will have modern equipment
to test the efficiency of your engines
five foot perimeter around that for a
service area, and a further four foot and tune them appropriately. The
cost of this should be recoverable
perimeter around that workspace to
from fuel economies and the peak
allow for workbenches. Ensure that
performance you reap in return.
you have adequate insulation,
Also, try not to be tempted to alter or
lighting, heating, and most
importantly, ventilation. modify your engines in the quest for
better performance. The likelihood is
that your engine will not have been
OIL designed for such modifications and
you could be asking for trouble
You will be changing your oil as per somewhere down the line. Basically,
your service handbook and “if it isn’t broke, don’t fix it.”
disposing of it in an environmentally
correct way, but did you know that, Reproduced with permission from
like a blood test can pick up a Southern States Coorperative, Inc.
problem in your health, an oil Winter Farm Equipment
analysis can perhaps point to a Maintenance (2011)
problem in your equipment that will
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manifest itself when you can least
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afford it? It is best to take your oil
sample when it is hot and thoroughly
mixed. So, take appropriate
precautions to prevent being
burned. Your local machinery dealer
should be able to arrange the
analysis for you or point you in the
right direction to get one. The
analysis will establish a base for
normal conditions and can alert you
when abnormal wear or
contamination occurs. Furthermore,
no two pieces of equipment are
exactly the same and the oil analysis
may show that you are changing the

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