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Howdy folks! It's been a while. OK, so it's not that I'm a slacker... it's just that I bust a$$ all the time and there are some projects I never seem to get to. I've been 'kicking the can' on my leaking backhoe cylinders for years. I have a bunch of cat litter pans that I keep under the...

It's the middle of snow season and a number of days ago, I started detecting a bad bang sound while snow plowing. Bang may be the wrong word to describe the sound. It has been very hard to detect. What with tons of snow and chains on the vehicle the ride is already rough. But as I'm plowing...

My tractor is 16 years old. It is always stored in my well insulated shop and is even block heatered before starting in the winter. It has always started just fine with normal starting sounds. About a year ago, it began emitting weird sounds when starting. Basically, it sounded like the...

OK, I got my hydraulic gear pump problems solved. But before I installed the new pumps... I had been running the old pumps for about a month with a new drive gear while I waited for the new pumps. The new splines of the new drive gear were able to spin the pumps and provide hydraulic pressure...

Imagine the steel piping which goes to a simple hydraulic gear pump which has an inlet and an outlet. The inlet pipe is approximately 1 1/4" in diameter. The outlet pipe is approximately 3/4" in diameter. The inlet pipe comes from the transmission & filter to the pump. About 2' before the...

I was at Messicks website looking up parts for a DX60... and there are some part pages I can't find. Specifically, I can't find the hydraulics pages which reference the main gear pump and steering gear pump as well as the hydraulic piping which attaches to the pumps. Attached are some...

I have a gear pump (with aluminum body and cast alluminum end flanges). I need to reassemble and was wondering what torque value to use for the 4 assembly bolts? Thanks for any ideas!

Just a bit earlier this morning I ripped apart some large snow mounds on my driveway with my backhoe (mounds about 10' high). Then turned around and bulldozed the snow chunks over the edge into the ravine using my bucket with tooth bar. I was about done bulldozing this section over the edge...

Bit of a crisis at the moment. Plowed our road for about 6 hrs today and tractor worked fine. As I was driving back up the hill to the shop with the engine at top revs (as it had been all day), the engine started to lose power momentarily but then recovered. I switched to a lower gear and...

My tractor battery is an ATLAS BX BX110BR and is 15" wide with a flat top and two terminal posts. There is also a small looking glass hole which shows the color blue when the battery is good. There are no normal caps on the top to check cell fluid level. But when you look at the battery flat...

Nozzle Gel. I have a tub of Hobart nozzle gel which is blueish in color. It works fine but I'm wondering what the consistency of the gel should be for dipping. My shop is pretty chilly in winter (until I crank up the heat). The gel is very thick and not liiquidy. I'm wondering if it's thick...

I have an Everlast Power MTS 251 Si welder that I bought a couple of years ago. I have been stick welding with it and all has been good. I recently started setting it up to begin learning MIG welding. I have a spool of Hobart .030 wire and have installed that into the machine and torch...

Thought I would share this as most of my repairs are not this easy. I've had an oil leak in the PTO zone for quite a long time and have numerous drip pans (mostly for the repairs I need to do on the backhoe). Last year when I changed the oil, I replaced the PTO seal. That seemed to reduce the...

The manual for my FEL is basically a system description and parts list. There is no info about installing the FEL or bolt torque, etc. I've got FEL mount bolts in the sizes of of 19mm, 22mm, 24mm gold color stamped with 10.0. These are for mounting the FEL mounts to the tractor. What would...

I've got two cracks developing in one of my FEL mounts. One crack is in the edge of a piece of 1/2" steel plate (it is an 8" wide 1/2" thick plate with a 2" crack perpindicular to the edge which moves inward to the center of the plate. The hairline crack is all the way through both sides of...

I have a leaking PTO shaft seal or o-ring. This PTO seal design is a cap which unbolts to reveal the seal pressed into the cap and the cap has an o-ring around the edge of the cap. I ordered the seal and o-ring from the manufacturer many months ago and went to change it while I was changing my...

This has been a repeating hassle and is at the moment, a problem for me. Currently, only the hydraulic oil filter must be gotten from TYM through the dealer (all of the other filters I can get from other sources). The filter is TYM 1797-515-210-1. I have 6 on order (afraid to see what they...

I am basically a welding newbie and currently configured for stick welding only. I have a question about fit before I repair something. The backhoe on my tractor has a lock pin to keep the boom from swinging when not in use. It's made out of what looks like grade8 metal (goldish in color)...

I've got a couple of hydraulic oil leaks and one is a bit of a mystery. One is a rear PTO shaft oil seal leak and the parts are coming, and that one is fairly simple. The other is more mysterious. A while back, I split my tractor to repair an input shaft oil leak in the front section of the...

I recently split my TYM T603 tractor to repair some hyd oil leaks in the input shaft area. All this went fine and the tractor is working great. But one thing I noticed the other day is the mechanical hour meter in the instrument cluster has stopped working. All other instruments are working...

My creep lever developed a problem a while back... and I never looked into the problem as I rarely use the creep speeds. But basically the lever comes up through a hole the cab floor and the lever had become loose and rattled around. It worked... you just pull up on the lever to get slow...

OK, the tractor is almost totally reassembled after the seal/clutch replacement. To split the tractor, the 1/4 inch fuel line was pinched with 2 vise grips about 6" apart and severed in the middle. It is now reconnected with a fitting and clamps and the vise grips have been removed. Do I...

OK, the tractor is split. Here are the pictures of the insides after opening. You can see the puddle of hydraulic oil in the bottom of the bell housing. Will tear into it later. Thanks!

So I am at the point of making disconnections for the tractor split. Electrical: I'm hoping to disconnect electrical connections and zip-ties and leave the cables hanging on the cab or front section. Hydraulic: Need to drain the transmission oil and disconnect pipes/hoses. Cooling/Heating...

I am approaching the 'point of no return' on my tractor split (the point at which the tractor can't move under it's own power because disconnections have been made and fluids have been drained, etc.). The split is being on done on my TYM T603 tractor (with 2780 hrs) to replace leaking seals on...

When I get to that point, the transmission side will remain stationary and the engine side will roll back. The engine side has a saddlebag oil pan that hangs down below the side rails. I don't really want to put pressure on the oil pan so I can't put any kind of splitting stand underneath that...

Pre-thinking this upcoming project. Will be splitting my tractor soon (TYM T603) and Phase I will be removing the cab. The cab is all one piece including floor with a hole at the front for the controls. There are lifting fittings at the 4 corners of the cab. My problem is... my shop is not...

I will be needing to split my T603 soon to replace the seals on the output shaft and redo the clutch while I'm in there. Does anyone have links to parts/service manuals for the T603? Thanks!

I am new to welding and about to be starting with stick welding soon. I have been studying and I have acquired a bunch of equipment and safety gear. But before I begin practicing actually striking an arc and welding... I want to make sure I completely understand what to look out for and guard...

I will be changing out my tractor coolant. But I want to run the coolant flush for several hours before putting in new coolant. My tractor is stored in a heated shop and I use a block heater on it before running it. I will be adding the coolant flush & water inside before starting it and...

I've got a TYM T603 tractor with approximately 2400 hrs on it. It's used mostly for moving snow, forestry and road maintenance at 9500ft elevation. It's very cold here and the tractor is parked in a heated shop and has a block heater. Upon starting and stopping, the tractor idles for a long...

I've got a CAT 3024CT engine in my tractor with approx 2400hrs on it. I've never done anything with the oil breather system. Does it need to be cleaned periodically? The breather... the hose... both? The hose that comes off the oil breather on the top of the cover is pretty oily and crusty...

I have some liquid-filled (calcium chloride) R4 tires/tubes that I am trying to replace the valve cores on (standard stem... not 2-piece). I know about it as I've done it before and am trying to replace the valve cores at regular intervals to avoid corrosion and this very problem. But of...

I have a TYM T603 tractor with a BT400 backhoe. I need to rebuild the cylinders of the backhoe as they are leaking to varying degrees. I haven't rebuilt the cylinders before but I am sure I can do it. I am going to rebuild the bucket cylinder first (which is leaking the worst) and do the...

Howdy folks! OK, some background. So I had my TYM 603 in the shop and I was changing out the valve cores in the rear tires to prevent CalChlor corrosion of the cores. I jacked up the tractor and rotated the rear wheels so the valve stems were at the top of the wheel and I replaced the valve...

I have Quick Attach on my tractor. On any of the implements... the Quick Attach plate basically consists of the overhang on top and some holes on the bottom and the mateplate at the back. The FEL plates tuck under the overhang and the Quick Attach pins go down in the holes which pushes the FEL...

In my quest for tire repair... I have some slight tire bead damage and am wondering if the tire is still mountable/usable. The tire is a 16.9x24 R4 tire. The outside of the bead face is fine. On the inside of the bead face, there are 2 cuts that are about 3/4" to 1" wide. The depth of the...

Howdy folks... it's been awhile. I've been dealing with a tire-leak dilemma and have been trying to find the best way to solve it. I have never really worked on my tractor tires before other than mounting my snow chains, etc. First some background. We are located on the top of a mountain in...

I have a TYM 603 tractor/CAT engine that began to have an oil pan gasket leak awhile back. Sent it back to the dealer and they pulled and replaced the oil pan gasket. Seemed to work fine for awhile. Then later it began to leak again. The majority of the leak appeared to be along the rear...

I have a TYM 603 tractor with TYM BT400 backhoe. The backhoe has been great for the 1 1/2 years I've used it. But yesterday, the right dipperstick/bucket control handle snapped off while I was using it. It broke just above where the threads start on the handle and the threads screw the handle...

I've got some bolts that need tightening to about 400 ft lbs. My torque wrench only goes to 250 ft lbs. I've seen some torque wrenches that go higher and I guess I need one of those... but they are a bit pricey. I've seen torque multipliers and am wondering if that would make torquing these...

Yesterday, I had one of the self-leveling links on my FEL break (see attached images). I was backdragging small logs/slash down a hillside using my root grapple. The tractor front was pointed up the hill and I was dragging back down. I really was not putting very much down pressure as I...

I need to order snow chains for my TYM 603. I am located in Colorado in mega snow country at 9400ft elevation on a mountaintop. Our STEEP road is a half mile long with 3 switchbacks. Let's just say, yes we know snow. I have a 68 Chevy K20 pickup with a 7.5 Snow-Way plow that I use to plow...

I have a new tractor with backhoe and the backhoe has a new Wallenstein thumb installed. All works great but the thumb valve has developed leaking problems. Basically, I don't use the thumb very much compared to the backhoe itself and after awhile, the thumb valve leaked from the piston on the...