Condensation or water in hydraulics

[J_J]

This could be a slow ingress of water over time due to the heating and cooling of the hyd fluid. As an example, if you leave a female QD coupling pointing up, and the fluid was hot, there is a good chance that some of the water that collects in the coupling will be sucked in to the hose assembly as the fluid cools. Anywhere there is a hyd cyl shaft end that can collect water, same thing.

Answer, is to cover the tractor/hyd machinery.

Just last week i saw that one of my cyl was leaking, so I ordered a seal kit and today, I took the cyl apart and guess what, there was some water in the cyl shaft end. It rained for a couple of days last week. The cyl was pointed up also.

 

[The Haymaker]

This could be a slow ingress of water over time due to the heating and cooling of the hyd fluid. As an example, if you leave a QD coupling pointing up, and the fluid was hot, there is a good chance that some of the water that collects in the coupling will be sucked in to the hose assembly as the fluid cools. Anywhere there is a hyd cyl shaft end that can collect water, same thing.

Answer, is to cover the tractor/hyd machinery.

In other words, this needs to be the summer I get my pole barn done!