psneeld
Guru
I hate to break it to but, your engine doesn’t know it’s the end of the season. Just change it at a proper hourly rate. In the construction business some equipment can be used for 300-400 hours then sit in the bone yard for a year not being used. There is no such thing as winter storage. 3126, 3208, 5.9 , JD’s it doesn’t matter. We charge the battery and light them up. Never ever lost an engine to oil.
Again...someone with fleet experience that echoes so many other real stories....
Engines seem to endure reasonable conditions no matter how much logic you throw at doing things "better".
There are always exceptions...but usually the "better" way of doing things pertains to extremes...not what most of us exist in...therefore the "better" way of doing things can be so incrementally small as to not even be measurable ( as people have reported in oil analysis, fleet engine issues, etc).