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Pretty sure he was referring to the beaver being allergic to lead... 😄

An electric grease gun doesn't have a huge benefit for most homeowner size machines. But get a BIG machine like an industrial backhoe or giant farm tractor with huge attachments that have a lot of fittings and you'll get to appreciate one pretty quick if you grease it regularly. Not everybody...

I have a DeWalt electric grease gun and it has been great. I'm not sure why some guys make a big deal about whether a gun is manual or electric. I can pump just as slowly with the electric as I can with the manual. The electric is nicer for quickly running through a machine with a lot of zerks...

Lots of differing opinions here, many of which don't take into account the differing states of equipment. One guy says I only use 2 pumps, next guy uses a ton and doesn't know when to stop... Why might that be? Generally it's because one guy has a machine with nice tight pin to bushing fit and...

Oh, and for cleaning out the problem, the only way is to pull the carb and disassemble it down as far as you possibly can into separate pieces. Then clean out every small passage that you can with a wire or similar. I then will soda blast the entire inside of the carburetor. Then blast out with...

Whether this happens or not is very dependent on the conditions. One, how well sealed the fuel system is. Note that it almost never happens on fuel injected vehicles. That's because the fuel system is completely sealed and there is also normally a vacuum pulled on the system while the engine is...

Fred, assuming that you're talking about the shuttle here, and not the actual transmission gearshift. Check the current that your shift solenoids are drawing. If you have an overload current set in the controllers and it's exceeding that, the controllers could be cutting the output power. This...

That 2,000 lbs at 48" was likely meant as height off the ground, not distance from the pin. Almost all loaders lose power as they ascend due to geometry changes between the loader arms and cylinders as the load is lifted. What they're telling you is that a 2,000 pound breakout machine might not...

Hiya Fred. About as well as can be expected, I suppose! I did put my machine to work recently removing a fallen treetop, and subsequently, the rest of the tree. It was a tight fit dropping that tree between the house and another tree, but squeaked it in there. Controllers are still going strong...

👍 Good deal! Happy to help. Sorry about the lack of response up to now, I didn't get any notifications for these latest posts, just happened to check in and see them just now!

That's already been done, here: https://www.tractorbynet.com/forums/threads/n-h-ford-445c-tcm-no-fonn7z319aar.473074/

I just kind of temporarily put mine up under the dash above where the pedals are. Only one bolt in each to hold them there, in already existing holes. I haven't gotten around to a more permanent mounting yet.

Yes, the original shuttle switch is functional, just as it came from the factory.

Have you changed hydraulic filters and oil? There's a metal mesh intake strainer screen under a block-off plate in the transmission that you should check also. Do you have a service manual?

Yes, shimming the relief valve will increase lifting power at *all* hydraulic implement attachment points. I did the same on my baby x595 because the loader was not much help at all. I think it could get 300ish pounds up originally. It was running 800 psi as I received it. I shimmed the...