I posted the below in the Case IH forum and got a helpful response from Jnman was just interested if anyone had ever had this happen. I talked to my local Case IH dealer mechanic and he said they had never had this happen. I will pull the pump this weekend.
Brush hogged for 4 hours yesterday and all was good but today I was taking my Case DX-40 to the barn and as I pulled in noticed an oil trail going into the barn.
Started looking around thinking I had a metal fluid line cracked...while looking I ran the engine up and it started spewing hydraulic fluid out of the crankcase breather hose from the top of the valve cover!!! Talking about filling an engine!
Obviously I immediately shut the darn thing down right then.
I would have to suspect some sort of seal in the hydraulic pump on the front of the engine let lose and is pumping hydraulic fluid into the crankcase. I guess the only positive thing is at least it is not water in the crankcase, so I would expect the engine will be fine after an oil and filter change.
Have any of you experienced this?
Pump rebuild? or new Pump? am I off base here.....guess I'll pull the pump this week.
GRRRRR.. Last summer I had to replace cracked oil cooler after puking fluid all over.
Thanks in advance for any advice.
By the way it has about 2800 hours on it.
Charlie
Brush hogged for 4 hours yesterday and all was good but today I was taking my Case DX-40 to the barn and as I pulled in noticed an oil trail going into the barn.
Started looking around thinking I had a metal fluid line cracked...while looking I ran the engine up and it started spewing hydraulic fluid out of the crankcase breather hose from the top of the valve cover!!! Talking about filling an engine!
Obviously I immediately shut the darn thing down right then.
I would have to suspect some sort of seal in the hydraulic pump on the front of the engine let lose and is pumping hydraulic fluid into the crankcase. I guess the only positive thing is at least it is not water in the crankcase, so I would expect the engine will be fine after an oil and filter change.
Have any of you experienced this?
Pump rebuild? or new Pump? am I off base here.....guess I'll pull the pump this week.
GRRRRR.. Last summer I had to replace cracked oil cooler after puking fluid all over.
Thanks in advance for any advice.
By the way it has about 2800 hours on it.
Charlie