GC1700 series - hydraulic pressure reduces when not running.

AxleHub · May 23, 2016

Greetings,

My GC1715 is now coming up on its 1st birthday (about 85 hours on it).

Yesterday I noticed after using it for a little while that I shut it off with my 3 pt with weighs still elevated and my fel omewhat raised with something on it . . . that when I came back after a couple hours that both fel and 3 pt had apparently slowly declined to ground level. I don't recall this hapening previously . . .though normally I don't leave fel elevated at all (it was about 18 inches up holding my mmm while I was cleaning and greasing it).

So is this a sign of a slight leak or just normal that both fel and 3 pt slowly settled down over a couple hours from an elevated position?

kennyd · May 23, 2016

100% normal.

irvingj · May 26, 2016

Yep, all raised hydraulics will slowly drop. One thing to keep in mind if you have anything near the tractor, or kids who might go near it. I always drop my MMM and the FEL to the ground when "parking" overnight. (Almost lost a lawn chair when the FEL lowered itself onto it….)

AxleHub · May 26, 2016

irvingj said:
Yep, all raised hydraulics will slowly drop. One thing to keep in mind if you have anything near the tractor, or kids who might go near it. I always drop my MMM and the FEL to the ground when "parking" overnight. (Almost lost a lawn chair when the FEL lowered itself onto it?)

I was using my fel with forks on it as a work table so I left it suspended when I went to lunch and a couple hours later it was a work stool lol.