JohannMarais
New User
Hi All,
Firstly, I am new to this forum. I am from South Africa and a new farmer. Recently bought my first tractor, a 1973 Ford 5000 Diesel. I bought it supposedly "reconditioned" but don't think the whole tractor was properly checked and I am not sure what was actually reconditioned and what not.
I had a front loader installed so it had hydraulics added as well as power steering and the hydraulics seems fine, the lift seems to work fine and the hydraulics lifts a full bucket on the loader so that aspect seems good.
The tractor was bought to work grass fields. Fertilizing, cutting, raking, baling, ripping, dissing etc so its important for me that everything on it works properly. I want to start working new grass fields with it intensively.
This past week I used the PTO for the first time. At first I struggled to get it going, its an independent PTO but then I got it working. We fertilized a few hectares, I disengaged it and after that could not get it engaged again no matter what I fiddled with. The next morning I fiddled with it again and got it working again. We went back to the field but after a short amount of time the PTO disengaged itself. Since then I have never been able to get it working again.
I opened the transmission and saw almost no oil in there. I could not find a level plug anywhere so I went to a neighbor to check his tractor and it had the square headed level plug on the side of the transmission so I made a dip stick to fill mine to the same level. I was under the impression the transmission took about 10 litres of oil but after adding a full 20 litre drum, the level is not going up. After some research I found that maybe internal seals are leaking and its running through to the Diff. I also read somewhere that some of these tractors had a the diff and transmission compartments combined? Is it possible that this is the case or is my tractor faulty?
If I start the tractor and look inside the transmission, I see oil flowing there, it looks like some kind of pump is pumping the oil around the transmission. The clutch and gears work properly so no problem there, so does the Diff lock and lift.
Basically what does not work is the PTO. Could this be related to the oil issue or is there some kind of trick to get it engaged? As far as I understand you switch it on and off by simply pulling the PTO level up or pushing it down.
Any help appreciated!
Firstly, I am new to this forum. I am from South Africa and a new farmer. Recently bought my first tractor, a 1973 Ford 5000 Diesel. I bought it supposedly "reconditioned" but don't think the whole tractor was properly checked and I am not sure what was actually reconditioned and what not.
I had a front loader installed so it had hydraulics added as well as power steering and the hydraulics seems fine, the lift seems to work fine and the hydraulics lifts a full bucket on the loader so that aspect seems good.
The tractor was bought to work grass fields. Fertilizing, cutting, raking, baling, ripping, dissing etc so its important for me that everything on it works properly. I want to start working new grass fields with it intensively.
This past week I used the PTO for the first time. At first I struggled to get it going, its an independent PTO but then I got it working. We fertilized a few hectares, I disengaged it and after that could not get it engaged again no matter what I fiddled with. The next morning I fiddled with it again and got it working again. We went back to the field but after a short amount of time the PTO disengaged itself. Since then I have never been able to get it working again.
I opened the transmission and saw almost no oil in there. I could not find a level plug anywhere so I went to a neighbor to check his tractor and it had the square headed level plug on the side of the transmission so I made a dip stick to fill mine to the same level. I was under the impression the transmission took about 10 litres of oil but after adding a full 20 litre drum, the level is not going up. After some research I found that maybe internal seals are leaking and its running through to the Diff. I also read somewhere that some of these tractors had a the diff and transmission compartments combined? Is it possible that this is the case or is my tractor faulty?
If I start the tractor and look inside the transmission, I see oil flowing there, it looks like some kind of pump is pumping the oil around the transmission. The clutch and gears work properly so no problem there, so does the Diff lock and lift.
Basically what does not work is the PTO. Could this be related to the oil issue or is there some kind of trick to get it engaged? As far as I understand you switch it on and off by simply pulling the PTO level up or pushing it down.
Any help appreciated!