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Read articles →This is a real-time, hands-on 100-hour service on a 5075E at ~99.6 hours, done by an owner on his own property between rain delays. It covers checking front hub oil, draining and refilling engine oil, and swapping the hydraulic filter, including a stuck oil cooler housing and a hydraulic filter so tight it broke a strap wrench and required a hardware-store run. Useful for owners wanting an unscripted look at real service snags, not a clean tutorial.
Posted by an owner-operator (Chris at Kalevala/Colville South Farm) documenting his own tractor maintenance and farm work, not a dealer or professional mechanic.
It takes 2.38 gallons, so a full three gallon jug leaves a little left over, which the owner says is never a bad thing.
The John Deere manual says to pre-fill it, so the owner tries, even though the filter sits horizontally and loses some oil going in.
The oil filter was on so tight it bent the tool, the oil cooler housing bolt was loose, and the hydraulic filter was so tight it broke a strap wrench.
The owner's strap wrench broke from how tight it was, so he bought a larger filter wrench at a hardware store, which worked after some effort.
