Weird Leak

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Funny enough, mine started leaking oil at about 50 hours. At first, I thought it was spill over from a leaky motor, but in the end, I traced back to the breather valve. Apparently, everytime it cycles, a little bit of oil sweeps by.

PT now has a fix: it is a three foot (+/-) hose that connects the accumulator to a plugged drain port on the RPS valve that leads to the tank.

It is easy to do. You demount the accumulator and add spacers that get it far enough out from the tub that you can add an elbow instead of the screened port. Then you remove the screen on the accumulator, add an elbow, remove the port plug (bearing in mind that the hydraulic tank will now leak out the port!) install the elbow, and hydraulic hose and you are done.

I can't tell you how nice it is not to have any oil seeps left in the tub.

All the best,

Peter

I had the same problem with my 1445. Oil was comming out of the breather on tha charging valve. It only started after I had over 50 or so hours on the valve. A seal inside the valve had blown. After replacing the charging valve three times and finding the same problem with each of them I finally tracked down the problem. The drain line which connects the charging valve to the drain on the draft control located on the side of the fuel tank was not open. The port on the draft control was a blind hole and not connected to the drain. This was causing system pressure to build up in the drain line of the charging valve which caused the seal to fail. Using 1/8 inch pipe fittings I 'Tee'd' in to the drain from the draft control and the problem went away. It seems that the manifold on the draft control was not drilled through to the drain.