Time to change the fluids

Kirk-NJ

Well-known Member
Supposed to warm in the north east the next few days so it might be good to get your fluid change before the winter sets it. Always someone on the site in the middle of winter asking about their hydraulics stop working and if you change your fluids you may not have a problem or cause further damage.
I picked up this parts tractor years ago and the guy told me the hydraulics quite working and he couldn't get it in gear once it got cold. When I open the side cover this is what I found. This is a bad case of neglect. I'm not saying anybody's tractor on this site is this bad but any water in the system can cause damage.

Kirk
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I pulled the drain plug on the snowplow on my pickup and it dribbled out some water before it turned to all oil. I refilled the reservoir and though I had done good. A couple days later I was working on a stuck turn valve on it and when I got through I checked the drain plug and even more water came out. Gotta check that you don't have water somewhere else in the system before winter sets in.
 
When I was just a lad of 15, Me and my DAD were the PROUD oners of a TEXACO service station. Simply go thru the airplane shop door and you were in the service station.

He, DAD, showed me how to make a profit from our service station customer.

After some formal training, yip at 15 I was employed by TEXACO, to attend their school, in Harrisburg for 3 months, then come home to work the evening shift at our service station.

First of all......save the crankcase drain'Ns. and the old Prestone anit-freeze, permanent type. By the way we also had a tank full of kerosene with one of those wooden-knob pumps.

About each year around now, we used some kerosene along with the permanent anti-freeze to flush the tranny and rear end of our FORD 9N and the John Deere"A".

We would strain the crankcase oil thru a milk-house paper-type filter, first.

GET 'em ready for WINTER, were the orders from the elders.

We would put some more kerosene in the tranny and rear-end so it blended with the mineral oil 80wt.

John,PA
 
I had the same idea a few weeks ago after a road trip with my 9N, so I pulled the plugs with the engine and transmission still hot. The trans fluid was dark but no water and ran out like engine oil. The next day when I poured it out of the catch pan it was like molasses. I refilled with TSC Traveller UTF which seemed a lot thinner. I'm hoping the hydraulics will respond much faster this winter.
 

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