Ford 4000 Select o Speed

SOS? Yuck simply horrible! You had better bring it over to me right away. I wouldn't want you to suffer with it for the next 5000 trouble free operation hours.

But seriously, If it's working now, it will probably be working when your grandkids inherit it. Just change the fluid and filters like twice as often as needed, keep the bands adjusted and your good to go.

Early ones were junk. The 3 cyl series 4000's had all the bugs fixed and they are good. You do hear about some duds, but mostly that's from 30+ years of failure to maintain it correctly (or at all). Like all automatic transmissions, it does not like dirty fluid.

jb

>Use the right stuff. Dont take a chance >on "same-as" oil. The select-o-speed may not >forgive you for it. Get New Holland 134 fluid >and the right filter

Soundguy

Besides.. generic utf oils , if you read the labels, are complying with the older spec oils.. though some do have viscosity differences.. in any case.. just about any oil you can buy today.. even jiffy store 84 cent per quart stuff is probably far better than any premium oil you could get in the late 50's..

I work for a general contractor.. we run many millions of dollars worth of heavy equipment.. mostly caterpillar and JD.. we don't buy their bulk oils, but instead buy fromt he bulk supplier in our town.. that happens to be fina.. and their torque fluid 56 is another one of those generic utf type oils.. we've run thousand of gallons of that.. none of our expensive trannies had had failures related to lube issues... .. so hard to point a finger at an oil and say this is 'close' to oem.. when the spec for that oil gets updated every few years, and a different manufacturer to boot...

IMHO.. good clean oil and filters will get you farther than who's name is on the label..

Soundguy

Heh...I understand there MIGHT be a difference between "good" and "good enough"...but in this case, "good enough" seems pretty darn good to me, unless one of two things happens: 1) New Holland cuts the price of 134 by 75%, or 2) someone scientifically and unequovically proves that the "or equivalent" oils actually do irreparable damage to engines or transmissions or rearends or whatever.

Thanks souNdguy...that's something I've been meaning to get off my chest for a while! =)

Pat

I've always used generic utf in my ford trannies.. back when I had my 1920.. it got either supertech or traveler utf... never blew up in the driveway... My dealer knew I used the generic utf oils.. and he still gave me top dollar on my trade in when i traded my 1920 in on my 7610s... so it can't be all that bad..

Soundguy