I bought a 2014 John Deere XUV550 gator down here about 4 tears ago. Demo with 7 hours on it. I change the oil and filter every 50 hours, the manual says to change it every 100 hours. It has 300 hours on it. When I got here this year, there was a small puddle of oil under it. The entire engine is hidden with covers and the entire undercarriage is enclosed in skid plates. I started looking for the leak and had to damn near disassemble the whole vehicle to find it. This thing is the poorest engineered vehicle that I have EVER worked on, as far as maintenance goes. After hours of tearing shit off, I found the engine breather valve gasket was installed wrong from the factory. This POS has been leaking oil from the minuet it was built. I thought it was burning oil, not leaking it. The engine covers and skid plates kept it all trapped somewhere on the machine. What a mess. Got it all back together last night. Hopefully it is fixed now. No oil anywhere this morning. Miserable job.
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