Glowplug
Veteran Member
I just went out to the barn to check on my baby. Something looked funny. The loader appeared to be unlevel. What the heck?!? I got up on the tractor and started it up, hoping that maybe one cylinder had just leaked down and starting it and raising the loader would help. But that didn't correct the problem. Then I thought, maybe I have a flat tire. I looked at the left front. Nope, looked fine. Then I looked at the left rear. Flatter than a pancake. All the fluid had leaked out and evaporated. Well, at least I didn't do anything like bend the loader arms. I got the compressor out to try to temporarily fix the problem. But no air would stay in. It leaked out quicker than it went in. It looks like once it leaked out that it's no longer seated on the rim correctly and is probably leaking out there.
So, here I am at 6pm on Saturday calling my dealer at his home. I was so upset I just had to. Plus I wanted to make sure it'd be okay to just leave it like that for now. He is probably going to come out tomorrow and pick it up. He said he would just take it to the shop and take care of the problem and then go ahead and install the extra hydraulic accessories that I had previously ordered that have now arrived.
At first I thought maybe the fluid had frozen in there. But he uses windshield washer fluid that stays liquid down to -20F. Probably even lower under pressure. Then I tried to think of what I had been doing. I was doing some moving of a big dirt pile two days ago from near the house to near the garden as well as some levelling and excavating. Was there some big piece of metal in there that I ran over? Then I thought, oh crap. When I was taking one of the loads over to the garden area I drove over a fence post laying on the ground. I had just pulled that post out of the ground a couple of days before. Was there a nail sticking out of that? I went over and looked at that post. Yup, there were two nails, very sharp pointed tips sticking straight up, on that fence post!! What a stupid mistake. That didn't have to happen. I don't know what I'm going to do now. Do I need to get a new tire or should that one just be plugged? Or should I just buy a new tire to be on the safe side? I'll bet those rears cost a pretty penny!! They're 16.9-30. Well, that won't happen again. Word of advice: don't drive over anything dangerous that you don't have to so as to just look cool. That's what I was doing. I knew that my father-in-law was probably watching. So I drove over that big post just to look cool, hoping to crush it under the weight of my beast. I only did that once but I guess that's all it took. Oh well, live and learn.
So my questions are as follows:
Excuse me. I must go mourn over my injured baby. Looks pretty pitiful and sad with that broken foot. Do they make crutches big enough for an M7040?
So, here I am at 6pm on Saturday calling my dealer at his home. I was so upset I just had to. Plus I wanted to make sure it'd be okay to just leave it like that for now. He is probably going to come out tomorrow and pick it up. He said he would just take it to the shop and take care of the problem and then go ahead and install the extra hydraulic accessories that I had previously ordered that have now arrived.
At first I thought maybe the fluid had frozen in there. But he uses windshield washer fluid that stays liquid down to -20F. Probably even lower under pressure. Then I tried to think of what I had been doing. I was doing some moving of a big dirt pile two days ago from near the house to near the garden as well as some levelling and excavating. Was there some big piece of metal in there that I ran over? Then I thought, oh crap. When I was taking one of the loads over to the garden area I drove over a fence post laying on the ground. I had just pulled that post out of the ground a couple of days before. Was there a nail sticking out of that? I went over and looked at that post. Yup, there were two nails, very sharp pointed tips sticking straight up, on that fence post!! What a stupid mistake. That didn't have to happen. I don't know what I'm going to do now. Do I need to get a new tire or should that one just be plugged? Or should I just buy a new tire to be on the safe side? I'll bet those rears cost a pretty penny!! They're 16.9-30. Well, that won't happen again. Word of advice: don't drive over anything dangerous that you don't have to so as to just look cool. That's what I was doing. I knew that my father-in-law was probably watching. So I drove over that big post just to look cool, hoping to crush it under the weight of my beast. I only did that once but I guess that's all it took. Oh well, live and learn.
So my questions are as follows:
- Do I have to get a new tire or is it okay to plug that one?
- Is it okay to leave it like that for now?
- Will it be okay to drive it a short distance to load it onto a truck?
- Or should I just not move it and check to see if I can find a tire service to come out and fix it on-site?
Excuse me. I must go mourn over my injured baby. Looks pretty pitiful and sad with that broken foot. Do they make crutches big enough for an M7040?