Case 500B hydraulics question

colinml · Nov 24, 2010

I have a broken remote hydraulic lever on this new-to-me tractor, and I'm confused about how it worked before it was broken. There are two levers on the right side of the seat. The inside one, closest to the seat, operates the Eagle Hitch. Works fine. Goes up and down. However, the bottom of the outer lever is broken off, so it is no longer connected to the control unit like the inside lever. It looks like a simple matter to repair the outer handle and cobble together some linkage to re-attach the lever to the control unit, but I have a question about doing this:

The levers don't move independently. Is this by design, or are they just stuck?

Thanks

charley hellickson · Nov 24, 2010

Hi;

They move independently of each other on a single bolt. They both have a rod that goes up forward and connects to the pump levers. The one is moving because it is not connected to the rod which would hold it in neutral or it could be stuck a little.

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Anonymous-0 · Nov 24, 2010

They need to move seperately. They each control a different valve. The handles need to be disassembled and the pivot holes need to be cleaned & lubed a bit.

colinml · Nov 24, 2010

Thank you!

Adirondack case guy · Nov 24, 2010

Perhaps these pics. of our 500B will help. You can pick up everything you need at good hardware store. Basically you will need a 36" length of round bar stock, 2 3/8" clevises with pins and 2 jam nuts. and the tools to thread the ends. The levers were potmetal, hard to weld. If you have some enginuity I'm sure you can make it work. If you want the lever to be original, I know where there are some in a local salvage yard, along with the linkage. As previously stated the levers are independent of each other on the sholder bolt.

colinml · Nov 24, 2010

Thanks for taking the time to take those pictures. We recently bought a house and got the tractor as part of the deal, and I was fortunate to find the other half of the broken handle laying near where the tractor is usually parked. Each side of the broken handle has some length, so I thought I would use a short length of pipe that fits snugly over the broken ends, bridging the break, and adding mechanical strength to the repair, and then fill the voids inside the pipe with metal epoxy. We'll see. If that stuff can hold a boat cleat, it should be able to withstand the minimal forces involved in moving a lever by hand.

colinml · Feb 4, 2011

Sorry to dredge up an old thread, but I'm just getting around to working on this again. I know that people said that the levers move independently, and that they might be stuck, but I think this is more than your run of the mill "stuck," since I just snapped off the other handle attempting to get the handles to move independently. I also attempted to loosen the pivot bolt both handles are mounted with. Wouldn't budge.

Am I misunderstanding something? Is there a pin somewhere, or something?

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