BrotherJoe
Member
Hey guys,
Have a 3020 that is leaking pretty badly--but I can't quite tell where, hoping for some experienced hands and eyes to give me
some frequent areas to check.
This just started a couple weeks ago and is pretty heavy when I'm using the tractor. Yesterday I dropped all the hydraulic
oil, checked/cleaned the sump screen (clean) and replaced the hyd and trans filters. Topped back up with fluid and went to work.
No change.
Pulled the cowl and the key/light panel and can see where it's coming down through, power washed inside there out as well as I
could to get a better view. At the moment there is a lot of oil around the steering cylinder, where the 4 bolts are, however,
I'm not 100% convinced that's the culprit (or maybe it's hope?). The rate that it's coming out of the tractor when you're
running it and what I see on that cylinder top doesn't seem to add up. I'd expect to see it just pouring out of there, and it's
not. I don't see any fittings leaking leading into the cylinder--but it appears that there is some sort of foam under the hood
between the firewall and where all the lines come in? That foam is saturated and so I'm suspecting something under the hood on
the other side of the FW--so I'm going to pull that today and look there.
There is a rubber line with a hose clamp on it at the top of the cylinder--what is that? I'm having a hard time orienting
myself in the deere parts diagram looking for that:
https://partscatalog.deere.com/jdrc/sidebyside/equipment/76112/referrer/navigation/pgId/229867
Any tips before I start digging deeper?
Joe
Have a 3020 that is leaking pretty badly--but I can't quite tell where, hoping for some experienced hands and eyes to give me
some frequent areas to check.
This just started a couple weeks ago and is pretty heavy when I'm using the tractor. Yesterday I dropped all the hydraulic
oil, checked/cleaned the sump screen (clean) and replaced the hyd and trans filters. Topped back up with fluid and went to work.
No change.
Pulled the cowl and the key/light panel and can see where it's coming down through, power washed inside there out as well as I
could to get a better view. At the moment there is a lot of oil around the steering cylinder, where the 4 bolts are, however,
I'm not 100% convinced that's the culprit (or maybe it's hope?). The rate that it's coming out of the tractor when you're
running it and what I see on that cylinder top doesn't seem to add up. I'd expect to see it just pouring out of there, and it's
not. I don't see any fittings leaking leading into the cylinder--but it appears that there is some sort of foam under the hood
between the firewall and where all the lines come in? That foam is saturated and so I'm suspecting something under the hood on
the other side of the FW--so I'm going to pull that today and look there.
There is a rubber line with a hose clamp on it at the top of the cylinder--what is that? I'm having a hard time orienting
myself in the deere parts diagram looking for that:
https://partscatalog.deere.com/jdrc/sidebyside/equipment/76112/referrer/navigation/pgId/229867
Any tips before I start digging deeper?
Joe