Little Mouse
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I bought a used Kubota L3830 with the front loader, which had a little over 100 hours in it. Everything worked fine for about 10 hours. Then one day, the front loader started acting weird. It could go up, and the bucket tilted fine, but wouldn't want to come down. So I left it at up position for a few days. The next time I started, it came down, and also it went up about half way, then it started to move up at a snail pace. It also came down very slowly. Eventually, I could get it down all the way, although it took forever. I left it there for a few weeks. Yesterday, I fired it up again, and this time, it went both up and down at a snail pace... About an inch per minute. Today, it could go up a little faster, but took forever to come down. A little later again today, it could go up at a decent speed about half way, then turned into snail, but could come down at a decent speed. All this time, there were no issues with tilting the bucket.
Any ideas what the problem could be?
Any ideas what the problem could be?