[i:654c4848f0]"I bought the upgraded seal kit, installed it and it is still spewing fluid out the column"[/i:654c4848f0]
Questions:
What is an upgraded seal kit?
Where did you buy it?
What was in the kit?
Where is it "spewing" out of the column?
Usually there are 3 places it will leak.
Just below the steering wheel.
Caused by upper seal failure - #35 in the photo above.
From the breather in the lower portion of the steering box #18 caused by a lower seal failure #14.
Or, if some moron plugs the breather #18 it will push oil out of the sector shaft seals #51.
I would count on the pump being shot from the PO running it out of oil and using it that way.
I agree with Royse and would NOT buy a new hydraulic block.
Go through your old one and clean it and maybe replace a spring or two if needed.
Pull the tin, and pull the upper parts of the column. Mark the 4 little lines going to the steering cylinders
to save yourself some hair pulling later.
Be careful to NOT let the little springs, balls and plungers fall out on the ground when you pull the
hydraulic block.
Very unlikely it is your steering cylinders.
Buy the I&T FO-31 manual from this site. About $30
For all intents and purposes your 3400 is a 3000 with a heavier front axle.
That manual will cover 95% of your tractor.
Follow the procedure outlined in that manual for reassembly.
Not a difficult job to have it working like new again.
Those are very good, very reliable tractors.
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