Posted by notjustair on June 08, 2017 at 06:37:43 from (184.191.48.136):
Bear with me here:
About six weeks ago I was having trouble with the skid steer hydraulics holding. I took it to Deere. It turned out to be a tip cylinder leaking badly internally so they rebuilt it. When I got it back they gave me a jug of the rest of the hydraulic fluid they used since I had paid for it on the bill. They had to come out two days later as I couldn't hardly run it - it needed recalibrated.
About a month ago it mysteriously caught fire. Insurance put 16k into it and I got it back about a week ago. They thought it was the return line from the turbo that had sprung a leak and sprayed oil on the hot engine.
I put 9 hours on it and it was down again. This time I was using it and got out to move something and the engine sounded like it was about to throw a rod. It would hardly run also. Fluid was running out of all edges of the skid plate underneath. The hydraulic was down to the add line and the engine oil was off the charts full.
They can't figure out how the two oils mixed. I immediately said the rear main might have blown out and transferred the oil from the pump to the engine but they said the rear main is intact. I told them I know that the two mixed because the engine oil is way too thin and smells like hydraulic. That got me to thinking - I thought the hydraulics worked on Plus 50 engine oil. Talked to Deere, they confirmed that it does. I went out and got that jug they gave me and they had put hydraulic in the system after the first repair. That's why it needed calibrating and also why the pump whined so much more after the fire. Wrong fluid.
Now they are busy pointing fingers at everyone in the shop and trying to figure out who messed up. They still don't know how the two oils mixed. Is anyone aware of any other way the two fluids could have mixed? The hydro cooler is separate of the radiator like an A/C coil would be. I'm so over them and this machine!
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