My F-1700 testing my patience

JC-jetro · Dec 9, 2006

gsxrsquid said:
Well done!

Thanks, I'm sure this tractor has probably few more surprizes for me

Hope, that'll be it for a while

dqdave1 · Dec 11, 2006

I like how you take great pictures to show effected parts. For 27 years old; it looks good. Considering the condition of fluid at first; this machine is "takin a licken and keeps on ticken"; with repairs of course.

Hopefully it will give you some hours of hard work.

JC-jetro · Dec 11, 2006

dqdave1 said:
I like how you take great pictures to show effected parts. For 27 years old; it looks good. Hopefully it will give you some hours of hard work.

Thank you. I'm very much a visual person. Thanks to this great technology I can walk anyone thru design , construction installation of project and have a pictorial archive of what went on. My memory is getting short but pictures never change and tell a lot. I hope I'll get to have many hours of unintrupted work with my tractor. All and all it was a great opportunity to learn some new stuff. I reckon I'll know what to buy when I get to a point to get a new shiny beast.

johnk · Dec 11, 2006

Jetro,

You did very well with the narration and picture taking that I'm sure will help others out. Good Job!!!

JC-jetro · Dec 11, 2006

johnk said:
Jetro,

You did very well with the narration and picture taking that I'm sure will help others out. Good Job!!!

Thanks JohnK, That was only possible with quietly listening in much informative discussion amongst the folks out here for a while. Certainly this forum is a great place to soak up "goood information"

I kind of felt maybe I am preaching to the choir as I am quite green when it comes to tractors.

JC-jetro · Dec 24, 2006

Hello friends. Wish you all the best and next to your loved ones in this holy night. Merry Christmas to all and hope for real peace on earth.

Secondly I am glad to report that I put my ole 1700 thru the wringers today for 8 hours of grueling heavy work. I pulled many wood posts out, skidded logs , cut and moved brush and made a big brush pile (Relatively Speaking). The hydraulic system passed all the tests with flying colors. I had hard time pulling some of the posts out and at times raised the front end also. I was careful not to screw it up

. I have put the tractor in barn for winter hibernation and gave it a few months off because of good performance today. I think all the hydraulic repair I have done did the trick. Thanks a lot for all the good inputs I received.
I've got a few pic for show and tell

Hooked_on_HP · Dec 25, 2006

Good job. It makes all the pain and agravation worth while . It realy makes you feel good when you do the repair yourself and everything works as it should.

RexB · Jun 28, 2007

Don't mean to rehab an old thread exactly, this was linked from the current "3PH failing" thread. And I just had to say you did a dam fine job on the hydraulics and your good 'ol Ford will appreciate the TLC enough to reward you with 27 years more work.

(Yes our tractors have personalities

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JC-jetro · Jun 28, 2007

RexB said:
Don't mean to rehab an old thread exactly, this was linked from the current "3PH failing" thread. And I just had to say you did a dam fine job on the hydraulics and your good 'ol Ford will appreciate the TLC enough to reward you with 27 years more work.

(Yes our tractors have personalities )

Thanks. It was a certainly good learning opportunity and feel much more comfortable operating my rig. I would be happy as a lark if had power steering, fel and FWA with this old nice tractor

I'm so pleased with simplicity and ease of maintenance of My ford. I gave here plenty of TLC and now she needs to repay.... I'd like to give her a name.. may be "Ole Betsy" .LOL

andreww · Jun 17, 2010

J.C. I have been having trouble with my 1700 hydraulics too and have cleaned the filter repeatedly and changed the oil a couple of times and made sure I got all the old gunk out of the differential and after I use the tractor for a couple of rounds of mowing, the hydraulic pressure goes down and I am dragging my brushhog. I have to let it cool down and then take it back to the barn!
I was inspired by your article and bought the seal kit thinking that might solve my problem and I took the pump off and tore it all apart and replaced the seals and now it has NO pressure and I thought I let it run long enough that it should have been primed like you mentioned.

I have a few of questions.
1) Are the seals to be flat side down? If not they didn't seam to fit flush. I couldn't find my manual. Didn't know if this might be the problem or not.
2) The pump seemed hard to turn by hand after I put it back together and tightened up the screws. I did not check it before I tore it down to see how free it was. Why do you think it was hard to turn? It got hard when I tightened up the allen head screws. Do they have a specified torque?
3) I was going to get a pressure gauge and test the pressure just to see how much pressure it was making if any. Can you tell me what size the fitting is needed to attach the hose and I read in another post that I needed a gauge that would read 3K PSI. I assume I would need a special hydraulic hose for the gauge too?
ALso NH sold me the wrong gasket for the pump. I have a square one and they sold me a round one, but was 75 miles from the dealer so I used the old one. It was not in bad shape. Do you know if there are different series pumps and gaskets?

One last thing - I did buy a new seal for the pump, but did not install it. Do you have a good procedure to change it.

Thanks
Andy