tylermckee
Senior Member
Anyone know the oil capacity for a 580L backhoe? changing the oil on all our equipment that thats the only one i dont know how much it takes.
edit: engine oil
edit: engine oil
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580L oil capacity?
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Ford LT-9000
Banned
Drain the oil into a clean bucket you can see how much oil was in the engine it will give you a idea on how many gallons its going to take.
Its a little Cummins engine it prolly doesn't take much more than 3 imperial gallons of oil. What I usually do is fill the engine up till it shows on the dip stick fill it up to the fill line. Start the engine so the filter fills up then recheck it or you may want to prefill the oil filter but then again you are running a litre of unfiltered oil through the engine.
Its a little Cummins engine it prolly doesn't take much more than 3 imperial gallons of oil. What I usually do is fill the engine up till it shows on the dip stick fill it up to the fill line. Start the engine so the filter fills up then recheck it or you may want to prefill the oil filter but then again you are running a litre of unfiltered oil through the engine.
tylermckee
Senior Member
I know how to figure it out once i drain it, i just want to know so i can run to our oil distributer and pick up all the oil i need at once. ill just figure on a 5 gall bucket for it, having extra oil around is never a bad thing.Ford LT-9000 said:
Ford LT-9000
Banned
See if the bulk station your buying the oil from will give you guys a deal on pails of 15w-40. If you have quite abit of equipment to change the oil on buy a drum of oil it should be a little cheaper.
The contractor I worked for used to buy Rotella 15w-40 5-10 pails at a time the one truck with Detroit power needed a pail for itself because it changed its own oil.
The contractor I worked for used to buy Rotella 15w-40 5-10 pails at a time the one truck with Detroit power needed a pail for itself because it changed its own oil.
tylermckee
Senior Member
we only have 3 excavators (a 140, 160, and one old POS 120 that never gets used) a mini, the backhoe, a little tractor, and the dump truck. with only 2 operators, and one of them hardly ever is in the seat, we dont have to change it that often. i just pick up a bunch of 5 gall buckets.
cat320
Charter Member
my book on engine specs says capacity with filter 11.6 quarts
tylermckee
Senior Member
Thank you sir!
cat320
Charter Member
your very welcome