JD 1050 hydraulics problem

[mikedn@cox.net]

I'm curious how you managed the nor'easter when it came, and piled on since then too. ??

Deere's been sitting under 4' of ice, and is pretty much still unreachable with ice-mound piled around it. Had to hire a plow guy to come and dig me out for this year ($200 for the 5x he came in total) and also had to drop $1300 on a snow-blower.

Once I can move the tractor I'll start working on it again, probably buy a hydraulic pressure test kit w/ quick-connects. I did end up buying a new filter and 6 gallons of Hygard low viscosity. The hydraulics haven't been right since the last time I took it to a local guy for maintenance, I'm just going to bite the bullet and drain the system, pull the screen and the filter and make sure there's nothing clogging it up, and then reassemble.

I'm sure I'll be back here when the weather breaks (just looked out my window and what do I see? snow.) for more guidance, unless someone knows of a decent hydraulics repair guy in the southcoast region of Mass, in which case I might just be tempted to trailer the tractor there and have him (or her) work on it.

 

[mechanic327]

Remove the filter housing and filter completely. this was a add on for power steering equipped tractors. I have an 850, would have to let idle at full throttle for over an hour in New England temps to get loader to work properly. I bypassed filter and it works instantly, even on a minus eleven degree morning with eighteen inches of snow.

 

[mikedn@cox.net]

Remove the filter housing and filter completely. this was a add on for power steering equipped tractors.

Must have been standard equipment on the 1050 then, because I do not have power steering on my Deere.

 

[kyhunter]

mikedn, did you ever get it fixed?

mike is kind of doing the same thing. I drained the hydraulic fluid and it looks kind of milky. I went to remove the hydraulic screen today, but there wasn't one in there. I am waiting for my filter to arrive tomorrow and was going to put everything back together. I have had the 1050 tractor for 3 years and put about 100 hours on it. It has close to 1200 hrs on it. My hydraulics would go up and down, but real slow. It was pretty cold when I went to use it while removing snow.