My guess would be its overfilled with water and coming out some kind of overflow ? I'd open the drain and let it drain 3 days. That stuff gets like pudding. Then fill to proper level with diesel/alcohol & quart of dextron trans fluid. Run for 15 -20 min working 3 pt & pto. Let set a day then run again 15 min & drain. Should then be ready for the universal tractor HF. Others may have other suggestions, but that procedure worked for my goohy mess and also freed up a non working 3 pt lift.
You're not kidding, I had the tractor fired up and idling for a while today. I engaged the PTO, it spins, so that's a plus. Three point hitch does not operate. I pulled the drain for the transaxle, holy water, batman. It came out dead clear for the first 10 seconds, and after that, nothing but cream colored nasty water laden oil. It's TERRIBLE. Hopefully your method will free my hitch, I can move it by hand but it doesn't work with the lever.
Check on ebay. You can often find reasonably priced factory service manuals there.
No luck yet, just repops.
If eBay read closely. Most are on a cd or poor quaility reprints. I got a good quaility reprint from original for ford 801's at tsc. They may have what you need?
Steiner tractor has reprints that are updated where applicable. They're about $80 or so.
The genuine MF manuals won't be cheap, but they are worth it. They won't be on a CD, and it won't be a reprint, search carefully.
Are factory reprints from Steiner as mentioned above decent?
Good news: the PTO works, the bucket hydraulics all work, too. The clutch still grabs well, tractor moves under it's own power. I had to spray some stuff with PB blast (both the hyd. valves for the bucket) to free them up. Good as new now. I cleaned out the gas bowl, need a new filter screen for it, tank is clean so I bet I could fill it and be good. I also found out that the rear tires, aside from the huge cast weights on them, are also loaded. I pulled the 4-bolt panel under the clutch, lots of oily water came out. Hopefully it doesn't continue to leak, it didn't appear to be leaking any more while I had the tractor running. Gotta clean that up.
PS- Where is that weep hole with cotter key? I don't see it anywhere, or even a hole where a cotter key would be?
PROBLEM: I'm not sure if this happened today or not, but after I lifted (by hand) the 3 point hitch while the tractor was running, I noticed cream colored watery oil running out near the PTO lever. Upon closer inspection, that cover is CRACKED! I'm off to try to find a replacement for that, tomorrow I'll drain the rest of the nasty oil but I can't fill with diesel until that cracked plate is fixed or replaced.
With it being cracked, the lever is slightly crooked now, hopefully nothing is seriously messed up in there. I'll pull it off and see if I can get it TIG welded, clean the filter screen, and make a new gasket for it.
Thoughts?
