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I was out on the Foton yesterday getting on top of the fire breaks on our property. An important issue here in Australia. At one stage I had the bucket in the air and I noticed that one of the bucket tilt cylinders was dripping out hydraulic oil at a fair rate at the rod wiper seal. I was...

The original oil filter was a JX0707 filter or similar with the 24 x 2mm thread and a seal diameter of 72mm. I originally made up an adapter so that I could fit the Ryco Z9 or Sakura C-1121 which have the ¾-16 UNF thread, which is an easily obtainable filter here in Oz. The Z9 has an outer seal...

Today I replaced the steering draw bar on my Foton FT404. As you can see from the accompanying photograph, I have hit many rocks etc over the last few years which resulted in a boomerang shaped bar. This is the bar also that is adjusted to give the correct toe-in so that would also have been way...

My original post was on 22nd September 2021. Although I have had many views of my post, no one has been able to recommend a way forward so this is what I have done. I removed the left side floor panel to allow me to remove the cover on the left side of the shuttle section. This wasn’t any help...

Hiya all, has anyone ever had to replace the shuttle shift finger on a Foton FT404? My tractor’s shuttle shift lever “flopped about” this Sunday passed, and left me with forward gears only. Looking at the parts book there is a roll pin that secures the external shuttle mechanism to the internal...

Hello there. I am a new member to this forum. I live in Western Australia and have a Foton 404 which I bought new about 12 years ago. Previous to the Foton I had an old Ford Dexta on which much was worn out. I am in no doubt that buying the Foton was a good move, it has been reliable and has...