I changed it when I got the machine a few years ago, and don't put a lot of hours on her. Like a idiot, I left in the rain too often, and got water in it, likely through the filler cap.
I wanted to use the bushhog yesterday, and the lift would not work.
Drained 2 gallons of milky oil out of it, (did not clean the screen) and refilled. Lifted right up no problem. Rolled out to the work site on the trailer half hour later, sitting at idle, went to use it and it didn't want to work again. Ran the PTO bush hog for a little bit, but without the lift, it just wasn't going to work well. Pulled one of the drain plugs while running at idle and chained down to the trailer while on site, and got cold milky oil out and quickly put the drain plug back in and came hone.
Drained what I had put in, (letting it ride home running at idle on the trailer -I have a weak battery) as soon as I was home and turned it off. Dang fluid was almost cold- absolutely no heat in it at all. Anyway. I have left the drain plugs out over night, and this afternoon will find the screen filter and clean it, and refill and run it again. My friend who has ATV's they like to mud bog through swamps, says he has to flush new oil three times to get it clean when it gets water ingestion.....
Me? I don't care how much oil I have to run through it if it clears up the problem without parts or repairs but will ask you experts.
Should I be taking a cover off and using an adjuvant like diesel through it to wash down the water from all the small spaces? Or just keep doing the drain-refill-run sequence over and over?
This project just went to the head of my projects list, and I will spend any amount and every bit of time needed to fix, before I go back to enclosing my 32x16x13H pole barn with 12' garage doors on each end (for my equipment to live in)
Thanks yall.
I wanted to use the bushhog yesterday, and the lift would not work.
Drained 2 gallons of milky oil out of it, (did not clean the screen) and refilled. Lifted right up no problem. Rolled out to the work site on the trailer half hour later, sitting at idle, went to use it and it didn't want to work again. Ran the PTO bush hog for a little bit, but without the lift, it just wasn't going to work well. Pulled one of the drain plugs while running at idle and chained down to the trailer while on site, and got cold milky oil out and quickly put the drain plug back in and came hone.
Drained what I had put in, (letting it ride home running at idle on the trailer -I have a weak battery) as soon as I was home and turned it off. Dang fluid was almost cold- absolutely no heat in it at all. Anyway. I have left the drain plugs out over night, and this afternoon will find the screen filter and clean it, and refill and run it again. My friend who has ATV's they like to mud bog through swamps, says he has to flush new oil three times to get it clean when it gets water ingestion.....
Me? I don't care how much oil I have to run through it if it clears up the problem without parts or repairs but will ask you experts.
Should I be taking a cover off and using an adjuvant like diesel through it to wash down the water from all the small spaces? Or just keep doing the drain-refill-run sequence over and over?
This project just went to the head of my projects list, and I will spend any amount and every bit of time needed to fix, before I go back to enclosing my 32x16x13H pole barn with 12' garage doors on each end (for my equipment to live in)
Thanks yall.