Went to a JD construction dealer (Brandt) today to buy Hygard transmission/differential oil for my 310D. To my surprise they didn't have any. The stock man said they now only sell Valpar oil. I have never heard of that oil brand and was leery to switch. After calling 2 other Brandt Tractor stores I was told the same thing. They claim it's just as good and it is specifically labeled as J20C transmission/differential oil for wet brakes and all. I went online and found only information directly published by Valpar. The price is about 20 or 30 % less so that is good. What do you guys know about this stuff?
If it meets the standard, I don't see any reason it won't work. Ford has 134 oil for the whole tractor; hydraulics and the trans and rear axle. When I didn't know better 25 years ago, I topped up the axle with 'Universal' tractor oil. That caused the wet brakes to chatter and groan, so when enough leaked out, I bought the 134 at the dealer, even though it was twice the price of the 'Universal' oil. I can use the 'Universal' oil in the hydraulics and steering, but the trans and axle get the Ford stuff.
Same poop ,different pail...Brandt buys it in bulk and rebrands it.....get used to it
I've that is an accurate answer I like it. To bad someone at Brandt didn't tell the people in the 3 Brandt stores I called.
The Valpar fluids sounded great for the price. Too bad it's only available in Canada and it's equal to –Low Vis Hy-Guard. I use regular Hy-Guard since the Tundra is far from me.
Hosspuller, can you elaborate a bit about Valpar's equality to Low Vis vs regular Hyguard. You know more about oil than I. Please educate me. Never mind. I went on the Deere website and read all about the Low-vis and all but how do we know if Valpar is actually repackaged Hi-Gard or at least equal to it.
From the Valpar site ... http://www.brandt.ca/SiteCollection...ansOil-AllSeason/TransOil-AllSeason-specs.pdf If you click the link above ... look at the heading "Applications" It lists John Deere J20D, J20B, –Low Vis Hy-Guard From that I infer that Brandts, transoil-allseason is equal to Low Vis Hy-Guard. I use the regular Hy-Guard. Not likely I'll see more than a week of freezing temperatures in my neck of the woods. :woohoo:woohoo Since Brandt only sells the stuff in Canada, likely all their customers NEED Low-Vis :canada
Try D-A Lubricants Inc. the ship to Canada. http://www.dalube.com/pdfs/Hyd100.pdf