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Tag: viscosity

Construction Equipment

Keep hydraulic fluid cool with Fecon cooler for skid steers, CTLs

Fecon’s new hydraulic coolers can be mounted on top of compact track loader and skid steer cabs for maintaining hydraulic fluid at optimal temperatures and viscosity, the company says. It uses two 11-inch cooling fans to regulate hydraulic fluid temperatures, delivering 120,000 BTU per hour of cooling capacity. It fits on most skid steers and CTLs and can handle flows […]

November 1, 2019

Fecon Roof Mounted Hydraulic Cooler

Oil analysis in the Tier 4 era

With EPA emissions compliant engines everything’s the same – just more intense.

January 1, 2013

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Maintenance

Cool, Clean and Dry Knowing how to keep your hydraulic fluid healthy pays big dividends Today’s construction machines perform at levels unheard of only a few years ago, thanks mostly to advances in hydraulic pumps. But with their high pressures and close tolerances these pumps require you to step up your game when it comes […]

December 9, 2011

Filtration caddies can clean and recirculate hydraulic fluid without having to drain the reservoirs.

Maintenance

5 Questions you should ask before launching an extended drain interval program By Tom Jackson To meet the many new exhaust emissions regulations, diesel engines have undergone more changes in the past eight years than in the previous 50. The good news is the new engines still crank out plenty of torque-heavy power and do […]

September 4, 2011

The new American Petroleum Institute CJ-4 standard meets a higher spec than any other lube oil that came before it, but it does not by itself allow you to extend drain intervals.

Gear Oils

While gear oils don’t fight combustion heat, soot, high acid levels and fuel dilution as do engine oils, they nonetheless operate in environments where there is extreme pressure and shock loading.

June 11, 2009

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