Recent content by Krisfarmlady

@ Mike & eKretz I don’t understand it either. Our neighbor works for the county and he told my son it was the battery so we had tried everything else so why not. Makes no sense to me either.

Just wanted to give everyone an update to the issue I was having with the shuttle shifter. It turned out to be the battery. We replaced the battery and now we are having no issues with the shifter. Thank you all for your help and ideas.

When the back end is lifted off the ground it will not move. I will have him check fluid again. Thanks!!

Will check it out! Thanks!!

We changed 2 filters last fall. If there is more then that we missed it. I don’t know about the inlet screen.

I do not know what hydraulic fluid he uses but I do know it’s all the same one that he is putting in all areas, there are 2 places he adds hydraulic fluid. 1 area is in the front of the backhoe and 1 area is at your feet by the brakes/gas pedal. This is what my father told him to use. If there...

I will have son check this.

So the backhoe stopped going in reverse after 14 min of run time. Still continued to go forward. We lifted back wheels off ground and it still would not go into reverse. It acted like it wanted to but didn’t. Will let it cool off and it would work again for 15 min then stopped again and only...

We will be trying things out on Sunday, it’s been a crazy week. Will send message Sunday night.

Ok, thanks for the feedback, let me get this to my son and let him do some more checking based on this. Will see what he finds out. Someone had told him to take out the fuses and clean them up real good and that might work. He did try that and it worked but don’t know if it was that or it had...

I am being told it is electric fed/2 wires.

Thanks for the reply. It won’t even try.

Hi all, hope one of you can help me. I have a 1994 555D Ford backhoe and when I have been using it anywhere from 20-30 min the shuttle shifter stops working and it won’t go forward or reverse. After it cools down it can be used again…. What is causing this? It’s a real pain and can’t get much...