bruce0777
New member
- Joined
- Sep 24, 2013
- Messages
- 24
- Location
- Sanford,North carolina
- Tractor
- 1983 540 A Ford Industrial & 1974 580 B CK Case Backhoe & 1965 ish 580 CK Case backhoe
Hello All, I have a 1974 Case 580 "B" CK backhoe 4 speed transmission with the shuttle shift 4 cylinder diesel. I just bought it and it has been sitting up for nearly two years and like most tractors it sits in the rain with a bad shifter boot and the rain just pours down the shifter lever and being there is a hole in the boot the size of a quarter the rain water just pours into transmission daily. I drained the trany fluid and removed right at 9 ( NINE ) gallons of nasty yuck fluid from tranny Should have been ( four ) 4 gallons . So I got it all cleaned out refilled with 4 gallons of new fluid and after it warmed up the gauge said I had good trany pressure and I drove it around the yard for just about 35 minutes or so and did great but I noticed tranny fluid was constantly coming out of from starter . The next day It ran the same and the starter was still leaking very bad 6 ozs a minute. It quit pulling in about 5 minutes and I checked the tranny fluid and it was empty. When I first bought this tractor I had to replace the bad starter and just grapped another case starter ( I just ordered the right starter a few days ago ) that came off a 1965 ish 580 CK backhoe..I guess my big question is, is it the wrong starter and not keeping a seal of the transmission fluid in bell housing ( which is chuck full of tranny fluid ) or is there a drain plug stopped up for the return of transmission fluid to transmission ? Or is the front seal gone on front of transmission ? Years back I replaced a starter on another shuttle shift tractor 411 B Case and it too was full of transmission fluid. Any eye opening help would be fantastic Thanks ahead of time Guys......Bruce North Carolina......