MF-35 Lift: Slow to drop

Dean

You know Ford and Fergie were partners for awhile. So in the split, Fergie, the engineer, decides to use the heavy stuff in his things while the industrialist Ford, uses 10-20w (thereabouts) hyd fluid. So in your MN winters, the Ford would go up and down whereas the MF just sat there. Never figured that one out.

Course when it's leak down time from worn parts in the lift piston area, Fergie's oil was king. Grin.

Thanks,

Mark

That's what we (in TX) use in MF trannies, hyd, and rears today. Can't buy 80w or 80w-90 around here unless you buy synthetic 75w-140 and that's overkill for this job.....and overkill to your wallet.

The reason why it's low to drop is fluid viscosity; i.e. we are in the winter. Now Dean, if it's really bad, then we could talk about something that may have some crud in it, or something that you may have gotten in backwards.

Why don't you run it for awhile before you get too excited and give those new parts time to settle in and the temp to warm up some.
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Had an inline injector pump on a tractor I bought. The guy spent tons of money and time trying to get it right. It definitely needed help. I bought it anyway and put time on the thing. Today is starts and runs just fine. All it needed was time for all the new stuff to work in.

HTH,

Mark

The day I last worked on it it ws around 60 F here and the oil had been in the basement before I put it into the tractor.

It's quite slow to drop, almost like the leak down rate with the "hydraulic oil from work" that was in it before I worked on it. Far too slow to mow with.

I still have one more adjustment to make on it and familiarize myself with the controls some more. It it definitely different than the Fords that I am familiar with where the draft control is either on or off.

After finalizing the adjustments I will probably table it until summer when I will use it to mow. Hopefully, it will be less annoying then. If not , I will post back for more advice.

Thanks, again.

Dean

Do you have any weight on the lift? Like shredder or plow or something?

Be interesting to know so that you could factor that into your slow to drop problem.

I'm not kidding; when this syrup fluid gets thick in the winter things just don't work very fast.

Thick fluid; bad in winter, but great to not leak and to lift loads when the lift piston seals are worn out in the summer.

Chow,

Mark

Dean