Now, I’ve been gunna change this fluid in the tractor for almost a year and a half. Once I got the tractor, with a very bad chewed up pump, and I replaced the pump, I knew I should change the oil again to help flush out more dirt from the mess of the old pump. Never did it. Tractor has been working good and I’m the type if it’s working, why fry and fix it.
So, knowing I want to try and hook to this old splitter, and knowing I should change the oil after that, I waited, till I hooked the splitter up. So today was the day, will finish it tomorrow. So I’m sure there is a correct way to change this oil. And I’m figuring the deck would have to come off. But, I’m again the type to try to do things the easiest way to minimize creating more problems. This is how I drained the oil. May not get it all, but the most of it will be changed. I figured if I loosened the lowest line on the hydraulic motor it should drain there. So I did that and it was draining. Slowly. Then I figured, I’d use my manual transfer pump, home hardware special, and drain as much as I could out of the oil holding tank. That went well. So I have about 3.5 litres out of it now and the line on the hydraulic motor is still draining. I will leave it over nite. I also retracted the lift cylinder. Before draining. And I loosened the two lines on the rear pto so it will drain. Those lines are low at the bottom, so I won’t get all of the oil out of those lines.
So hopefully it will still work when I put the 15w-40 back in. Another change like that in the future will take care of any hydraulic oil in the system from the splitter.
Jumpins. Quite a ramble.
Noel
