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I am reworking the back yard with a friend's tractor. He's not internet savvy so I'm just doing the research and will talk to him before doing anything to his tractor.
When he brought it to me, the FEL bucket would curl and dump whether it was empty or full, no problem. However, while the arms would raise and lower full travel when empty, they would only go up a foot or so with a load in the bucket. He said it worked until he removed the FEL from the tractor for whatever reason. No problem, I'm not loading a truck, just moving some dirt around to correct a bad grade, rough mowing, wet basement, blah blah. Mostly I'm using the box blade on 3PH.
Yesterday I was going along and suddenly the steering wheel slipped hard left and fought me. Try as I did, I could not bring it back to center. When I checked the 3PH it was too far in the lift direction. Put the lever back in the notch and steering control returned. Big sigh of relief that it was that simple. I mention it only bc it's related to the hydraulics.
An hour later when using the bucket as a dozer it popped an old hose; it was about to go anyway. We replaced the hose no problem, cycled the bucket and arms full travel a few times, now the entire loader functions empty but ZERO lift or curl with a load. There's still enough oomph to lift the front wheels though. That said, I didn't try to see if it would do that to travel limit.
Friend is fretting major expense like a pump. But it only seems to be affecting the FEL where we've been turning wrenches, so I'm sure it's something simple like a spool adjustment or most likely air in the cylinders which will have to be purged, but neither of us know how to do this.
Any ideas? Pictures would help but aren't necessary.
When he brought it to me, the FEL bucket would curl and dump whether it was empty or full, no problem. However, while the arms would raise and lower full travel when empty, they would only go up a foot or so with a load in the bucket. He said it worked until he removed the FEL from the tractor for whatever reason. No problem, I'm not loading a truck, just moving some dirt around to correct a bad grade, rough mowing, wet basement, blah blah. Mostly I'm using the box blade on 3PH.
Yesterday I was going along and suddenly the steering wheel slipped hard left and fought me. Try as I did, I could not bring it back to center. When I checked the 3PH it was too far in the lift direction. Put the lever back in the notch and steering control returned. Big sigh of relief that it was that simple. I mention it only bc it's related to the hydraulics.
An hour later when using the bucket as a dozer it popped an old hose; it was about to go anyway. We replaced the hose no problem, cycled the bucket and arms full travel a few times, now the entire loader functions empty but ZERO lift or curl with a load. There's still enough oomph to lift the front wheels though. That said, I didn't try to see if it would do that to travel limit.
Friend is fretting major expense like a pump. But it only seems to be affecting the FEL where we've been turning wrenches, so I'm sure it's something simple like a spool adjustment or most likely air in the cylinders which will have to be purged, but neither of us know how to do this.
Any ideas? Pictures would help but aren't necessary.
