Front Hub and Differental Oil Chages

[Lonnie Eslick]

Spartan maintenance guide says chage ever 12 months. How many owners are following this? Does your Spartan dealer offer this? What has been the cost of this?

Thanks

[Lonnie Eslick]

Spartan maintenance guide says chage ever 12 months. How many owners are following this? Does your Spartan dealer offer this? What has been the cost of this?

Thanks

[Route 66]

I plan on changing my front hub oil myself in a month or so as one year will have gone by.

I'm also curious whether anyone changes the differential lube.

[tmitchell]

I waited until I had my 2004 DSDP 3 years before I changed the oil in the front hubs, rear differential, hydraulic fluid,air filter and air dryer filter.
Once a year I do the engine oil and filter,coolant filter and fuel filter. After 2 years,I flushed and changed the antifreeze and started the change over to transynd in the transmission. I lube the chassis twice a year.
It is a pain getting the oil back into the rear differential. I tried 2 different cheap hand pumps and heated the oil up by leaving the containers in the Florida sun a few hours but still couldn't get the heavy oil to move through the cheap hand pumps. I ended up using a funnel with a flexible hose attached. I would fill the funnel 3/4 and pinch the hose, while I maneuvered it up to the fill hole. Then repeated this many times until the differential was full.
Tom