Greenlee Hydraulic Fluid Generic Equivalent

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Anyone know what the generic equivalent is for Greenlee?s Hydraulic Fluid (4017GB)? AW-32 (~10 weight) maybe? Thanks in advance.
 
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Anyone know what the generic equivalent is for Greenlee?s Hydraulic Fluid (4017GB)? AW-32 (~10 weight) maybe? Thanks in advance.
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See if Greenleee's website has an MSDS for it. May provide better clues than guessing.
 
I don't know the equivalent but do not mix oils of this grade even if they seem to match. The proprietary additives sometimes react with one another and can damage your tools.
 
Hydraulic fluids are NOT oils, at least not in the "10W40" sense. Indeed, many of them are not oils at all.

I work with hydraulic oils every day. Some are mineral-oil based, some are glycol based, and some are even ammonia based. The only thing these oils have in common is that they all are very resistant to foaming under vacuum.

Using the wrong oil will FUBAR your seals. Introducing dirt when you change the oil will FUBAR your seals.

Considering the price of the equipment, a few extra dollars for the reccomended oil isn't a bad deal. I do suggest, though, that you pass it through a 5-micron filter before you add it.
 
My father is replacing seals & etc in a Greenlee 767 manual hydraulic unit. Figured we could save some money safely by using a generic equivalent hydraulic fluid. Did not anticipate the recommendations against that.
 
FWIW, I actually read through some of the manual, and the equivalent is listed: Mobil DTE-13. The following appear to also be equivalents, though I cannot speak to additives: Speedol HSY-T-HVI 32; Shell Tellus T 32; BP Energol SHF-HV 32; and Castrol AWH M 32.
 
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My father is replacing seals & etc in a Greenlee 767 manual hydraulic unit. Figured we could save some money safely by using a generic equivalent hydraulic fluid. Did not anticipate the recommendations against that.
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If you get one close you should be fine. That is as long as the entire system has been purged and cleaned. But also remember you are back to the original problem, from now on this unit will have to use whatever fluid you put in after the rebuild. This isn't a problem if it's the only hydraulic tool you own.

Gardner Bender HF 100 is what there tools use. It's $18.00 a quart.
 
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