Water in hydraulic oil. What to do?

[Jay4200]

I know engineers don't get a lot of practical application, you'll have to trust me on this one.:laughing:

Ouch.

JayC

 

[PointyHairedBoss]

How do you lift and/or handle a drain bucket with 10+ gallons of fluid in it? My L4200 takes almost 11 gallons of transmission fluid. I'd never be able control 60+ pounds enough to pour it back out of the drain pan into wherever it needed to go next.

JayC

I dip it out of the tote & back into old containers until the tote is light enough to pick up

 

[kjung17]

Sorry Jay. I couldn't resist ;-)

 

[wjsizemore77]

After putting 4 hours on the seat yesterday doing some grading and moving dirt, I can tell a slight difference in performance with the UDT as opposed to whatever I drained out of it. I'm assumuing it was whatever it left the factory with.

Its funny b/c the dealer said I wouldn't be able to realize the benefits of SUDT in our climate (florida) and recconmended the UDT to me instead. Goes to show not even the dealers know what is best all the time.

SUDT users, feel free to send in the "I told you so's". In the mean time, I'm gonna get some of my money's worth out of the molasses.

 

[Johnny Burke]

How do you lift and/or handle a drain bucket with 10+ gallons of fluid in it? My L4200 takes almost 11 gallons of transmission fluid. I'd never be able control 60+ pounds enough to pour it back out of the drain pan into wherever it needed to go next.

JayC

I've done it on a L5030 with 11 gallons of pressure, your hand gets plenty oily but its defInitely possible to overcome the pressure. But yeah, there will be oil all over so get a BIG pan!
edit: sorry misread that, thought you were talking about resistance for oil flowing out.