trlong
Platinum Member
HELP? I've tried to find any threads that would help on this with no luck. My JD 46 Backhoe sat for a long time out in the weather until I recently attached it to my JD 4115 Tractor. I have done a lot of work with this backhoe and, since reattaching it to my tractor it worked fine only last week, although the left stabilizer hydraulic control was a bit sticky, all other hydraulics worked fine (all lubed and greased before re-attaching to the tractor), I had no real problems with the hydraulics connected to my "power beyond". Now, having detached it to work with other equipment on the 3-PT hitch or the power beyond, nothing on the JD 46 backhoe is working. I have the "410" bucket on the front and the hydraulics are working that fine, but when I connect the backhoe to the power beyond and try to drop the stabilizers, lift the arm, curl the bucket, swing the main arm... nothing happens other than a slight movement. As I had no problem with the hydraulics when I dropped the backhoe from the tractor and re-coupled it's hydraulics to prevent moisture or dirt to get into the couplings or lines, as well as re-inserting the power beyond line to itself for the same reason, I don't understand why nothing (or very little) happens when I try to maneuver anything on the backhoe other than maybe, a 1/4" to 1/2" movement of the controlling pistons. Could this be that there is air in the lines, dirt stuck in one or more of the lines/pistons...? It actually seems that when I try to move the stabilizers down they first try to raise rather than lower and then just stop. I did make sure that the power beyond hydraulics run other equipment with no problem. So, it is not that there is not enough fluid in the system or the power beyond flow is restricted on the tractor itself. I hate to have JD Service try to come, somehow get it on a flatbed and charge me whatever just for something that I thought should be simple to figure out and fix. Any help would be greatly appreciated.