Quality seat time last weekend: 1+ acre food plot, Dearborn 2-bottom plow, disc, etc. Put the ol' girl to work and boy does she pull.
One issue toward the end... My tube-frame disc is about the limit for the 3pt lift. As I've been working this tractor I have noticed the pump noise under load. (wuka-wuka from the scotch yoke, I presume). At the end of the weekend I picked up a screaming noise under load and it would only lift the disc just off the ground. Plow was no problem. Under heavy lift load it sounds like a poorly set-up lathe.
I don't want to do any more damage running it, but at the same time I don't want to do more surgery than needed. Is there a likely cause of this? Time for a pump rebuild?
Only other thing I've done is I throw in the o-ring piston when I had the top cover off last year. Any advice on the skreetching noise appreciated...
One issue toward the end... My tube-frame disc is about the limit for the 3pt lift. As I've been working this tractor I have noticed the pump noise under load. (wuka-wuka from the scotch yoke, I presume). At the end of the weekend I picked up a screaming noise under load and it would only lift the disc just off the ground. Plow was no problem. Under heavy lift load it sounds like a poorly set-up lathe.
I don't want to do any more damage running it, but at the same time I don't want to do more surgery than needed. Is there a likely cause of this? Time for a pump rebuild?
Only other thing I've done is I throw in the o-ring piston when I had the top cover off last year. Any advice on the skreetching noise appreciated...
