Hello everyone,
New to the forum! Thanks for anyone's
future advise!
I recently purchased a 91 model 6610,
the previous owner told me it was having
steering problems and I got it at a
discount due to this. At time of purchase
the tractor wouldn't hardly steer at all.
You could top off the resivoure with atf
fluid and it would be hard to steer and
would quickly burp all the fluid out of the
cap.
The previous owner told me the tractor last
year was getting hard to steer. So they put
a new pump on it. This fixed the issue for
about 10 hours and then it started burping
all the fluid out and foaming up. They then
parked it untill the day I bought it.
So I pulled it in the shop and tinkered
with it. I read online about checking the
ps pump filter, so I pulled the can off the
pump to find it full of metal shavings.
This is a new pump but I guessed new pumps
could have issues too. Figure a seal was
out in the pump causing it to pump air in
the system.
So I put everything back together and
filled it with 10w40 just to get it out of
the shop. With the 10w40 it steered a
little better and didn't puke all the fluid
out.
But I went ahead and ordered a new pump for
it.
Before installing it I cleaned the lines on
the system the best i could. Put on new
pump, used 10w40 motor oil in it, fired
everything up and it steered great, for
about 10 hours, and now it is getting hard
to steer. And when backing up and turning
the wheel the wheels will try to go full
lock on their own unless you start turning
them the other way. So I thought maybe the
seals in the cylinder are bad?
I jacked the front of the tractor up and
you can grab the front tire and work the
wheels left to right fairly easy. Shouldn't
the cylinder hold the tires in one place
and not be able to work them back and
forth?
What are y'all opinions on what is going
on? I can't keep putting pumps on this
tractor every 10 hours! That gets costly!
Thanks
New to the forum! Thanks for anyone's
future advise!
I recently purchased a 91 model 6610,
the previous owner told me it was having
steering problems and I got it at a
discount due to this. At time of purchase
the tractor wouldn't hardly steer at all.
You could top off the resivoure with atf
fluid and it would be hard to steer and
would quickly burp all the fluid out of the
cap.
The previous owner told me the tractor last
year was getting hard to steer. So they put
a new pump on it. This fixed the issue for
about 10 hours and then it started burping
all the fluid out and foaming up. They then
parked it untill the day I bought it.
So I pulled it in the shop and tinkered
with it. I read online about checking the
ps pump filter, so I pulled the can off the
pump to find it full of metal shavings.
This is a new pump but I guessed new pumps
could have issues too. Figure a seal was
out in the pump causing it to pump air in
the system.
So I put everything back together and
filled it with 10w40 just to get it out of
the shop. With the 10w40 it steered a
little better and didn't puke all the fluid
out.
But I went ahead and ordered a new pump for
it.
Before installing it I cleaned the lines on
the system the best i could. Put on new
pump, used 10w40 motor oil in it, fired
everything up and it steered great, for
about 10 hours, and now it is getting hard
to steer. And when backing up and turning
the wheel the wheels will try to go full
lock on their own unless you start turning
them the other way. So I thought maybe the
seals in the cylinder are bad?
I jacked the front of the tractor up and
you can grab the front tire and work the
wheels left to right fairly easy. Shouldn't
the cylinder hold the tires in one place
and not be able to work them back and
forth?
What are y'all opinions on what is going
on? I can't keep putting pumps on this
tractor every 10 hours! That gets costly!
Thanks