Here's the hypocrisy of recommending diesel fuel as a "flush" for a hydraulic system:
You complain about the "lack of lubricity" in diesel fuel, and dump all kinds of witch's brews, snake oils, and homemade concoctions in your expensive machine's fuel tank to replace this "lack of lubricity."
Then you turn around in the same breath and recommend diesel fuel to flush a system where lubrication is CRITICAL, where if you run it without oil for more than a few seconds, you burn up the hydraulic pump.
If diesel has so little lubricity, how can you recommend using it in a system where lubricity is so critical?
Plus unless the capacity of the system is only a gallon, the pump may not even pick up the diesel fuel, and WILL run completely dry.
Besides, what do you do with the gallons and gallons of contaminated diesel fuel you end up with? Dump it in the creek?
Hydraulic oil maintenance is all about dilution. Get the old oil mixed up and warm, dump it, and refill with fresh. Then start changing it regularly, or don't. Put the whole concept of "flush" out of your mind.
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