This cant be good

moresmoke · Oct 5, 2020

Drained the hydraulic oil from my loader tractor. I guess I should change it more often.

David G · Oct 5, 2020

Water

Stephen Newell · Oct 5, 2020

It looks like if you keep the tractor outdoors you need to get a tarp for the tractor.

David G · Oct 5, 2020

Agreed, it will just come back if you do not solve issue.

Steve@Advance · Oct 5, 2020

Is it water or air?

If the level was low or a leak in the suction line it will froth with air.

If it sits and clears up, it's air.

If water it will somewhat settle to the bottom.

If it's water it will also be in all the lines and cylinders.

moresmoke · Oct 5, 2020

It’s water. Don’t know where it gets in, breather is not somewhere water should be getting to. Could be condensation. Hard to spend much effort on a tractor that isn’t worth much. Meant to change it last year, but didn’t happen. Did get it drained Saturday, but then discovered I didn’t have the filters I thought I had.

caterpillar guy · Oct 5, 2020

If you heat that oil it will evaporate out of the oil then run it again to get the most of the water out of the system by cycling the oil again then reheat. This will get it down to where you can with the third time be able to put new oil in and not comtaminate it with the old oil and water. Then have to keep it inside during non use, cover it,or change oil pretty often.

showcrop · Oct 5, 2020

That is from condensation. It has nothing to do with it being covered or in the open.

Russ from MN · Oct 5, 2020

but you get more condensation sitting outside, more temperature change.

showcrop · Oct 6, 2020

(quoted from post at 18:45:17 10/05/20) but you get more condensation sitting outside, more temperature change.

I agree Russ, but I'll bet that the difference isn't much. My shop is insulated but every now and then when a warm humid front would come through, anything with any weight of cast iron would be dripping water. One time I walked in and my 9000 Ford had a puddle eight feet by four feet under it. When I did a double split on it I could see where the condensation was dripping from the top of the rear center onto the PTO clutch housing. That housing looked like it had been in the weather for thirty years. I run a dehumidifier in there now after finding various things that had been damaged by humidity.

Bret4207 · Oct 6, 2020

IME it doesn't matter what I do, my hyd oil always looks like that even if I change it a month after the last change. Between left over old oil and the stuff in the lines and condensation here in the east, it just happens.

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