Service Intervals

Trying to keep the air filter clean is a pain on any farm equipment. Lived on a dairy all my life lol, and worked for CAT and now peterbilt and international fixing them lol You can put a screen mess infront of the air intake hole for the air filter to minimize the hay and silage getting into the filter. The best way to blow the filter is from the inside out(reverse air flow)

Oil & fuel every 400 hrs 3 months this would also be a good time to blow out the radiator and stuff.
coolant i would just go to Extended life and then you wont have to worry about it for 6 years and add extender at 3 years.
Trans and diff. fluids I would do every 1500 hrs - 2000 hrs of operation your not getting the temps up in those fluids vs. on highway trucks. Moisture tends to stay in there.
every year on the air dryer
overhead every 2 years

 

Ok, never, never remove the air filter just to blow it out. Every time you remove the filter and blow it out you will get dust blowing around and no matter how careful you are it will get into the engine. There are lots of pre-cleaners for your filter. I have seen a round sponge type of filter that slips over the main element to catch the larger dirt and dust. This you can slide off and blow out. You can also mount external precleaners to help with the dust too.
http://www.donaldson.com/en/engine/support/datalibrary/055478.pdf
http://www.dieselproducts.com/enginaire/engine_air.html

 

K&N makes a washable air filter for trucks. Just Google K&N and find their website. You'll probably need to call a rep, have your stock air filter p/n ready. If you're interested in doing it, you might buy a pair. Swap them out, clean the dirty one and put it up to dry until you swap them again.

Working in dirt and dust is going to cost some bucks in oil changes. A good bypass filtration system might (or might not) help. Gulf Coast makes one, you change out a large filter by hand and top off the oil again. You'll have to decide if it's cost effective or not, it could extend oil drains. Or it could just be an expensive accessory.

 

I go 250 hrs on oil, 200 hrs on air cleaner and yearly on trans oil, diff oil, and air dryer. Earlier this year I put a Donaldson precleaner on and it has helped alot with keeping chaff out of the filter. It fit under the hood nicely. I can post some pics up later.

Where in WI are you?

 

Have your oil analyzed when you change it is the easiest way to figure out if your going too short or long on it.

 

Check with anyone, blowing out your filters "everyday" will cost you an engine sooner or later! I wasn't trying to be ignorant to you or give you a hard time. I am trying to help you. If you can't take some good, helpful advice and you already have the answers that you want to hear in your head, then why waste everyone's time here and post the questions? If you need to blow your filters out everyday you really need to install a prefilter system for sure. At least install some air filter restriction gauges. They will signal you when they need changing. I don't want to see anyone go broke by over servicing air filters, and I certainly don't want to see anyone loose an engine either!

 

I'm running a bypass filter. I change it at 15,000 miles and both filters at 30,000 but I run a sample every 15,000 and change the oil when the lab says it's dirty. I changed the oil last time at 160,000 miles even though the lab said it was still good, I just felt bad leaving it in there so long.

It sounds like you could use tighter filtering anyway, I think mine filters down to 4 microns. You probably wouldn't get the same miles on the oil that I do, but with a good sampling schedule, you'll know when and how bad it's getting.