Hello,
I'm in Maryland right now and we have quite a bit of snow on the ground with more on the way. I'm house sitting for my parents and the only way I can get out of here is with my fathers tractor. Specifically a Ford 1710. It has rear hydraulics with a blade attached. It also currently has a really annoying problem. If when I turn the tractor off with the blade on the ground when I go to turn it back on the blade will not raise, if I then leave the hydraulics control lever in the raised position turn it off and go away for a few hours when I come back and turn it on the blade will raise.
The blade then works "ok" for around 30 minutes before it slows down and stops working completely, at which point the process is repeated. Even when the blade is working its sluggish to respond and jerks as it is being raised. I thought it was the hydraulic fluid level and checked that to find it was quite low (very bottom of the gauge) so I poured more in, this did not fix the problem. I read elsewhere on this forum about a fellow who had front hydraulics that had a similar issue. He was able to bleed air out of the system to fix the problem. I have no idea where I might bleed air out of the rear hydraulics (assuming that is also my issue).
As is probably obvious I do not know a lot about tractors. As a side hobby I rebuild old woodworking machines, but when it comes to tractors my knowledge is limited to my father's crash course before he left town.
Any help on this would be greatly appreciated.
I'm in Maryland right now and we have quite a bit of snow on the ground with more on the way. I'm house sitting for my parents and the only way I can get out of here is with my fathers tractor. Specifically a Ford 1710. It has rear hydraulics with a blade attached. It also currently has a really annoying problem. If when I turn the tractor off with the blade on the ground when I go to turn it back on the blade will not raise, if I then leave the hydraulics control lever in the raised position turn it off and go away for a few hours when I come back and turn it on the blade will raise.
The blade then works "ok" for around 30 minutes before it slows down and stops working completely, at which point the process is repeated. Even when the blade is working its sluggish to respond and jerks as it is being raised. I thought it was the hydraulic fluid level and checked that to find it was quite low (very bottom of the gauge) so I poured more in, this did not fix the problem. I read elsewhere on this forum about a fellow who had front hydraulics that had a similar issue. He was able to bleed air out of the system to fix the problem. I have no idea where I might bleed air out of the rear hydraulics (assuming that is also my issue).
As is probably obvious I do not know a lot about tractors. As a side hobby I rebuild old woodworking machines, but when it comes to tractors my knowledge is limited to my father's crash course before he left town.
Any help on this would be greatly appreciated.