Hydraulics stopped working

[JayBear]

Need some sugestions as to what happen to my Hydraulics on my TC33DA. weather has been pretty darn cold 10 15 below zero but much warmer today high teens. Anyway had my girl pluged in for hour then fired her up after letting her warm up for half hour I tried lifting the bucket and rear snow blower but nothing. Checked pto on blower ran fine. So I cant work my loader or lift rear snowblower. What do I need to do to trouble shoot this any suggestions.

Thanks JMA

 

[6sunset6]

Is the relief valve whinning when you try to move the loader? unplug and plug the QD on the loader. As JJ says ofen plug in a gage and see if you have pressure.

 

[J_J]

Put a gage on the loader valve and see if you have any pressure. Check your filters and fluid and see if they have any moisture, and if so , they might freeze.

Is your hyd fluid clear or milky?

Does the 3pt work?

Put a heater close by your hyd filter and see if it helps any. .

 

[JayBear]

Thanks Guys Somthing must be frozen I put space heater on covered tractor for a bit and started getting movment not much so I will wait till I can get back to it. I do have cold weather hydro fluid in the system but it may be time to change it out.

 

[KubotaSam]

I don't know if this is recommended procedure or not but I remember a farmer I worked for years ago putting a small amount of dry gas (alcohol) into the hydraulic tank. He said it prevented things from freezing in the winter if it had a little water in the system. I am not recommending this because I don't know what reaction could be to the hydraulic components. Someone with more hydraulic knowledge may help with this. I bet it would be fine.