I switch back and forth from my brush hog to a trailer hitch 4 or 5 times a year with my old tractor. Hydraulic system was working fine just last week. I disconnected my trailer hitch bar to connect my brush hog and the arms won't lift. I looked into my hydraulic fluid chamber and no oil!!!!! First thought was "shame on me for not keeping track of the level". So I bought 5 gallons of hydraulic fluid and poured it in. Not only will the arms still not lift, but the oil is running out of the two holes in the lower body up next to the caps that are for draining the oil, I believe.
A little background. I'm not a mechanic, I'm an operator. I've owned this tractor for 23 years now. I get on it and it starts.......that's all I know about a tractor. It runs great. Never gives me any trouble......and the few times I've had any minor problems, a old "vintage tractor guy" up the road has guided me through what it took to fix it. Only problem is my old friend died a few months ago and now I'm sittin' on a stump wondering what in the heck to do!
My first thought is the pump must not be working. But I wouldn't know what to do if that was the case. But I can't figure out why the freshly installed oil is coming out of the holes. I don't know what to call the holes, but they look as if they have a heavy cotter pin inserted from the inside of the tractor body to the outside and spread apart. I've never seen oil dripping off them before. Now its a serious drip and I've had to go back and try and catch as much of that expensive oil as I can.
Any thoughts or comments from those of you more knowledgeable than I would be much appreciated.
Chris623
A little background. I'm not a mechanic, I'm an operator. I've owned this tractor for 23 years now. I get on it and it starts.......that's all I know about a tractor. It runs great. Never gives me any trouble......and the few times I've had any minor problems, a old "vintage tractor guy" up the road has guided me through what it took to fix it. Only problem is my old friend died a few months ago and now I'm sittin' on a stump wondering what in the heck to do!
My first thought is the pump must not be working. But I wouldn't know what to do if that was the case. But I can't figure out why the freshly installed oil is coming out of the holes. I don't know what to call the holes, but they look as if they have a heavy cotter pin inserted from the inside of the tractor body to the outside and spread apart. I've never seen oil dripping off them before. Now its a serious drip and I've had to go back and try and catch as much of that expensive oil as I can.
Any thoughts or comments from those of you more knowledgeable than I would be much appreciated.
Chris623