Things not warned of in manuals

jacksun65 · Oct 16, 2017

I have been having problems with the 3pt on my new to me Case 830. finally decided to pull the valve and put new seals and rings in it. Read the instructions carefully and fully. Everything went fine untill I pulled the valve off. I had a 1/2 inch stream of hyd fluid shooting 4 ft in the air. LOL Reason for pulling the valve 3pt was stuck in the up position.
any other stories out there.

ztrmowers · Oct 17, 2017

oh yea anytime you deal with hyd there will be oil someplace and something will come down. worst i had was when skid loader bucket came loose and ended up end wise in cab with me. came thru door clear into the joystick controls, got lucky i was able to back away before it came into my chest, it ripped door frame clear off the unit. unit was less than month old. been running those units since i was 12 0r 13 years old. never this happen, it was scarey.

NCWayne · Oct 17, 2017

Usually things like that are warned about by saying something like, 'insure all pressure is released from system before working on it's. Whether the person doing the repair understands the warning is a different story..LOL.

That aside the worst thing I have seen omitted from a manual is when Ford doesn't bother to include the fact that the Simms injection pumps on some of their engines need to have the oil in them checked and changed as they are separate from the engine. I've got an OEM manual and there isn't a peep about checking these pumps in it.

I know I found he one on the 3500 I've got dry as a bone shortly after I got it. Based on what I was told by the guy I got it from (after he inherited it from a friend, who passed, that had bought it new), the oil in the pump had never even been checked....because the guy didn't know he needed to.

I know that's not exactly what you were looking for,but it's the worst omission of pertinent information I know of from a factory manual.

buickanddeere · Oct 17, 2017

. iT manual or a factory manual ?

ss55 · Oct 17, 2017

As the 3 point hitch fell it probably would have fallen on me or pinched me some how. The manuals don't often include important steps like "Injury may happen here",or "Spring loaded parts may fly out and be lost here". Some times there is a suggestion at the front of a manual or the front of a section to lower or support all hydraulic mechanisms and release all pressure before working on hydraulic components, but it is rarely at each step were it's needed the most by idiots like me, LOL. Oh well, the school of hard knocks is a pretty good teacher.

451 CUBES · Oct 17, 2017

Study the parts diagram for that valve very carefully on reassembly. I forget now, but there are a couple of parts in the valve that are very easy to install in the wrong order, and the Case manual and online parts diagram have them drawn somewhat vague, so it is easy to miss. Search DOM Valve in the case section here on YT for some good tips too. That makes a pretty tall fountain of oil, don't it? BDT...

john *.?-!.* cub owner · Oct 17, 2017

Reminds me of when I was around 14 or 15 (a long time ago), and Dad was taking the model 31 loader off the Farmall H. When I walked up he was having trouble getting the quick connects disconnected. He had just picked up a wrench to tap the sleeve back to release it when I asked him if he was sure he wanted to do that. The loader bucket was still about 3 feet off the ground. LOL

showcrop · Oct 18, 2017

I have driven skid steers just now and then, although one time it was a week long project. A few weeks ago I was driving a dump truck for some friends, when I needed to get into a skid steer to move it to be able to dump a load. When I went to get out I could not lift the safety bar. I was in there for probably twenty minutes. I found a manual there in the cab and read it but there was nothing about the safety bar. Finally I just happened to try it by pushing forward and up instead of pulling backward and up, and it went right up.

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