SO, I realize I just purchased one of the most hated JD tractors but I'm going to get this damn thing running. I know little about the rig, she does start. When we tried loading up to get it home from the sellers house the hydraulics would not work. You could see the pistons try to act, but not really. She took about 3 gallons of hydro fluid and still nothing. We tried bleeding the lines at the farthest points (got a little bit of nasty fluid then the new started flowing).
So we decided to comealong the bucket and boom up to get her loaded, all the new and old fluid came back out of the fill tank along with evidence of water in the system. Once that was done, we tried to drive out and nothing. Im assuming the transmission is ran off the hydraulic system? ANYWAY, I'd like to know where to start with getting the hydraulics working, how to bleed the system. I DO have a few leaking lines that I know of.
The pump seems to be on the front of the crankshaft. There seems to be power steering but the lines come from a breather of some sort under the dash up to a pump in front of the fuel tank. I have one brake dragging would like to know how the brake system is supposed to work (there are two pedals)
ANY help would be great and YES, I know I have a battle on my hands with this rig, but its mainly to tinker on and use around the small farm we have. I did get a service manual but it hasnt answered all my questions.
So we decided to comealong the bucket and boom up to get her loaded, all the new and old fluid came back out of the fill tank along with evidence of water in the system. Once that was done, we tried to drive out and nothing. Im assuming the transmission is ran off the hydraulic system? ANYWAY, I'd like to know where to start with getting the hydraulics working, how to bleed the system. I DO have a few leaking lines that I know of.
The pump seems to be on the front of the crankshaft. There seems to be power steering but the lines come from a breather of some sort under the dash up to a pump in front of the fuel tank. I have one brake dragging would like to know how the brake system is supposed to work (there are two pedals)
ANY help would be great and YES, I know I have a battle on my hands with this rig, but its mainly to tinker on and use around the small farm we have. I did get a service manual but it hasnt answered all my questions.