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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Tazza" data-source="post: 959" data-attributes="member: 82"><p>With proper care and maintenance, your investment should last quite a few thousand more hours. Keep your hydraulic/hydrostatic oil clean, change the filters as per your instruction manual (i believe this to be 250 hours). Change your hydraulic/hydrostatic fluid after 1000 hours. Engine oil and filter should be changed every 50 hours my manual says, this seems a bit low to me.... I would check up on this. Keep an eye on your cooling system's fluids too, this is probably the most important thing, as if the engine over heats it can cause a lot of expensive engine damage. My first bobcat was an old 731, it has had an un-known number of previous owners. The hour meter hasn't been working since i got it, it read about 2000 hours and i am sure it had been around the clock at least once (10,000 hours). The engine was replaced by the previous owner, other than that the hydraulic/hydrostatic system is still in top shape even after all that work. I believe the only thing that really should wear out would be the engine, but this will take quite a bit of time to do. Just keep your services up to date and i am sure you will get quite a few thousand hours out of it.</p></blockquote><p></p>