Help! I think I scr*wed up.

I just got a TO35. I ordered manuals the day after I got it but they have not yet arrived. So unless someone can lend a
hand, my tractor will sit where I turned it off until the manuals arrive.

Here's the problem, the tractor has power steering and leaks from the steering box, the steering began to make a little
noise so I decided to check the fluid. I located the power steering pump on the left side of the engine, it is topped by a
large canister with a nut on top of it. Just forward there is what looks like a fluid reservoir with a screw off cap. I remove
this cap and found no fluid. So I searched this site and concluded that I should put 90 wt gear oil in the power steering.

After putting about 1.5 quarts of gear oil/hydraulic fluid into this reservoir, there is still no visible fluid. Wondering, I
looked around and got a sinking feeling that perhaps I have been pouring gear oil into the engine crankcase! I pulled the
engine oil dip stick, and it seems to read above full!

Did I pour the gear oil into the engine crankcase?

If so I guess I'll need to drain the crank case and refill, how much does it take without changing the filter?

If the above is correct, how do I check the power steering fluid?

Still confused.

Here's a quote from BigDean:

"Jerry the same oil you run in the transmission is what Massey recommends for the power steering. The dealers got a service bulletin on that way back in 1978 telling us not to use Dextron oils in the steering that the seal would not stand the Dextron oil to use M1129A which is Perm-A Tran III now days."

He says to use the same thing as in the transmission BUT I use 90w Mineral Oil in my transmission based on other recommednations I read here.

???

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Regarding the fluid, I looked through the archives, and BigDean recommends the gear oil, so that's what I'll use - also seems like it might leak a little more slowly.