Ferguson Hydraulic leak

Lyndon Smith · May 23, 2013

I have a 1958 Ferguson 35, gas engine. I have a lot of leaking from the small hole on bottom of hydraulic/tranny fluid pan after running even for a few minutes. It is milky in color.
Can someone tell me what to do or if I have a leak somewhere before I change the fluid.

Jason S. · May 23, 2013

Are you talking about the small hole where there a cotter pin is sticking out of on the bottom?

lemroy · May 23, 2013

If the oil is milky, it proly has water in it. Roy

Wheat Farmer · May 23, 2013

Take some of the fluid in a glass jar. Heat it is a pan of water. See if it is Air or Water.

samn40 · May 24, 2013

Short term, just drain some of this mixture until the oil is just hitting the dipstick. The full mark on the dipstick is to allow for using remote hydraulic rams and is just reserve. this should take the oil level below the oil seals at the front of your gearbox. Long term....the seals are gone inside your clutch bell housing at the input shafts of the gearbox. The clutch will eventually fail. Before changing the oil it would be better to repair these seals. However, if you change the oil now with a cheap 15W30 oil and only fill until the oil just touches the dipstick, the new oil will help to flush the crud and water out and the tractor should be good enough to let you get your spring work done. Dispose of this new oil when you do the seals correctly and the next oil should last for another 50 years, providing the tractor is kept inside out of the rain!.
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