MF 245 losing power steering fluid

AwL

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Hi - each time i go to use my MF 245 the power steering fluid level is low, but there are no obvious leaks from hoses/connections or pump. Anyplace else that fluid could be going? Odd mystery indeed! Thanks, Al
 

As ptfarmer said if you can't find a leak check you engine oil level and see if it's going up.

I have an old Ford Aerostar that kept losing transmission fluid. I couldn't figure out where it was going until one day driving it, it started laying a smoke screen behind it.

I drained the engine oil and it was about three quarts over with transmission oil. In my case it was a bad vacuum modulator on the trans that caused it. I thought my engine was ruined from the huge smoke screen it was putting out, but that transmission oil must have cleaned out the engine real good because it's still ticking away and that was ten years ago.

I did have to get the trans rebuilt from it running dry. :(
 
hmmm, no sign of power steering (hydrualic) fluid in engine oil. If it was leaking hydraulic fluid from power steering into engine, how bad
is having hydrualic oil in engine oil? PTfarmer - is that Port Townsend farmer? I'm south of Chimacum. Al
 
Not Port Townsend.

On another note a little hydraulic oil in the engine oil won't hurt it, a lot of it a different story. Since the power steering pump has probably been run without oil it wouldn't hurt to replace it (they don't like being run without, or very low on oil).
 
years ago we had an old case backhoe, it did the same thing.
low power steering fluid, but motor oil would be high.

so, we being the rednecks we are, we just started using motor oil in the power steering pump reservoir,

drain some oil from the motor crankcase when necessary, add the motor oil back to power steering reservoir,

the old backhoe worked great for years and steered like it should.

apparently the rear oil seal in the power steering pump housing was bad and allowed the oil to leak back into the crankcase sump,

we all knew this problem and procedure, so we insured the power steering reservoir was full whenever we used the machine.
 

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