If you get into that valve systen under the kidney shaped cover, the one you stick a pencil into to get the valve out- clean around that really well first. It's an awkward area to work in and you don't need to put dirt in the system, and make SURE you have a small bucket or something to put your parts in. Don't just lay them out in the open, bad things happen, trust me!
That little screen can get plugged by a tiny bit of dirt and the lift won't work right.
You might also take a look at the the David Brown Tractor Club website, THey have a good forum and those guys know their stuff. Another thing to try and get is some of the DB shop manuals that cover the hydraulic system. I got a mess of stuff off the internet and a manual off Ebay that help an awful lot. The tractor itself is very well designed, but the Brits do things just a little different than we might. Once you get into to it it's rather simple but some of it is almost backwards of the way Case or Deere might do things.
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