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3400 Power Steering Issue

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Where to start.

I am working on a 3400 that I had purchased non running. We had the head rebuilt and while doing that we had pulled the separate power steering reservoir off. As preventative maintenance, we replace the hoses on the bottom of the reservoir, cleaned it and replaced the internal filter. We did not drain the rest of the system, but refilled the tank with the traveller UTF from TSC that matched the 134d. The tractor was in the warm shop and it started and ran well. Power steering was great. It has been ran for a couple of hours. My father let it sit out of the shop and when running it yesterday, it was spewing frothy oil out the top of the fill lid covering everything. Where would you start on this problem.? My thoughts are to drain the system after it gets thawed out by cracking the hoses at the cylinders to get everything out and then check my filter to see if it blew out.
Any ideas on where to head with this? I will check my hoses again.

Thanks
Jason
 
I don't have a good answer for you but think you're on the right track. It could be water/ice in the system. Get it warmed up in the shop and replace the fluid. Crack the lines, turn the wheel back and forth and keep adding fluid till you get most of the old stuff out.
 
good sign the whole tractor's ready to blow - you should let me come pick it up before something everything lets loose ;)

I know on my 3400 it had red ATF/Ford power steering fluid in the pump which I thought was thinner than UTF
 
Had a similar thing happen on my 740 a couple of winters ago. As soon as it warmed up all was well. I did drain what I could later that summer and replaced the fluid with plain old ATF. Seems to be just fine but it is a trailer queen and dosn'nt have to go out on cold days anymore.
 
I was actually going to say the same to you when I saw that
you posted that yours might become a parts machine. I have
an engine waiting to go.
 
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