How often do you grease your blower?

[joeynbgky]

My new tm has a roots 45. With grease fittings. Its actually 2 years older than my older tm, but sat on my distys shelf brand new. I'm use to dual splash. I changed the blower oil at break in at 25 hours........the owners manual says every ten. That can't be right

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[KevinL]

Every chance I get. haha

 

[Shawn Forsythe]

Greasing:
Going by the blower manual table, it's going to be vaguely somewhere in the "ballpark" of between every 56-168 hours, depending on speed. However, a TM OEM may specify a different interval based on considerations of the particular equipment design. But, every 10 sounds a tad on the short side (unless you were referring to the initial oil side change).

Oil change:
Is highly dependent on the type of oil being used. Some blowers are initially filled with the synthetic the blower manufacturer recommends. Others are filled with a conventional non-detergent oil. You see below that calculating the interval can get a bit complicated. Often the OEM will consult with the blower manufacturer for a recommended interval after looking at temps and loading, taking also into account high-heat lobes, if present.

 

[FLYERMAN]

I would suggest that changing the oil and greasing the blower are not the same thing. There are zirks in/on my blower that I hit with the grease gun every week or two if it was a slow week. The oil however is a different matter and I do all the fluids every 500 hours. Except the engine is every 50.

 

[joeynbgky]

Well, I have not greasef it for 60 hours, so im way over due?

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[joeynbgky]

Found the book. It says every 500 seems to far out

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[BLewis]

Joey, I grease my 6008 every 50 hours or there abouts. The small bearing usually takes about 25-30 squirts the larger bearing about 5-10 more than smaller bearing. Change oil every 500 hours.

 

[dealtimeman]

The biggest thing Joey is to grease it slowly. As stated in your manual there, you need to make sure not to over grease. We put a couple shots a week with a manual grease gun. Don't use a pneumatic.

 

[Dmreed4311]

I have changed the oil twice in 11 years on my blower, i grease it once or twice a year if i think about it.

 

[Ron Werner]

my roots 59 was greased every 50 or 100hrs, I rigged it with remote grease fittings then gave it a shot or two while it was spinning.
Oil was every 100hrs, using Mineral Lube 30. Thats what the guy I bought the truck from recommended, back in 96. He'd been running it like that since 1980.

 

[rwcarpet]

The biggest thing Joey is to grease it slowly. As stated in your manual there, you need to make sure not to over grease. We put a couple shots a week with a manual grease gun. Don't use a pneumatic.

You can "overgrease" the blower fittings. Blow out a seal. I popped a bearing cap off by overgreasing.

Remember....you don't want to blow a seal!!!!

Check out seal video....

http://youtu.be/2OpuuAa7gdE

 

[GeneMiller]

i blew the seal out of mine from over greasing it . hey Marty, blow me i had to pull the blower to replace the coupler so i put in a new one without fittings.

i thought that the specks for the synthetic oil was around 5000 hrs., which is when i changed mine. it looked and smelled brand new.
gene

 

[floorguy]

not mention if you over grease, it causes premature bearing failure....due to not allowing the bearings to spin freely..(clogged with grease)

 

[CDRX]

I probably grease mine 3-4 times a year.