Hi, this question is in regard to a Case 580 Super K- maybe not exactly in the scope of TBN but I figure hydraulics are hydraulics to some degree.
Anyways, my brother-in-law got this beast of a backhoe last week. We drove it about 20 miles across the valley to get it home, then took turns digging holes and see how it all worked and whatnot. Seemed to work fine. When we parked it we found that one of the loader's hydraulic hoses was ruptured and leaking a bit. He was heading out of town and asked me to replace the hose. I had to take off what I assume was both the supply and the return hoses to get to the broken hose. Lost maybe a couple quarts of fluid in this process. After I replaced the hoses I added some more hyd fluid till I could see it in the sight gauge on the right side of the machine.
Started her back up and soon began to notice a significant loss of power- the stabilizers were VERY slow to go up and down, I could barely use the boom swing foot controls and the engine didn't seem to want to give me the power and torque I had before, especially when turning. It seemed to briefly return to normal if I jockeyed the loader hydraulics up and down.
So, do I just have a bunch of air in the hyd lines or is this a symptom of something else? If it i just air, how do I bleed it on a backhoe?
Thanks for any assistance.
Anyways, my brother-in-law got this beast of a backhoe last week. We drove it about 20 miles across the valley to get it home, then took turns digging holes and see how it all worked and whatnot. Seemed to work fine. When we parked it we found that one of the loader's hydraulic hoses was ruptured and leaking a bit. He was heading out of town and asked me to replace the hose. I had to take off what I assume was both the supply and the return hoses to get to the broken hose. Lost maybe a couple quarts of fluid in this process. After I replaced the hoses I added some more hyd fluid till I could see it in the sight gauge on the right side of the machine.
Started her back up and soon began to notice a significant loss of power- the stabilizers were VERY slow to go up and down, I could barely use the boom swing foot controls and the engine didn't seem to want to give me the power and torque I had before, especially when turning. It seemed to briefly return to normal if I jockeyed the loader hydraulics up and down.
So, do I just have a bunch of air in the hyd lines or is this a symptom of something else? If it i just air, how do I bleed it on a backhoe?
Thanks for any assistance.