Colt Case Ingersoll Garden Tractors

So the Case 224 might make it to the old wood splitter tomorrow. I’ve been wanting to hook this Case to the wood splitter for a while now and each time I get close to doing that, something changes and it gets put off. Sooo, I cut the grass at home tonite and when finished I put it on the trailer. So that’s a step toward getting it hooked to the splitter.
The splitter used to be hooked to my TEA20 Ferguson tractor. It would split most any thing but was slow to move. Ferguson pump is about 2 to 3 gpm flow. So I’ve been curious how this Case tractor with 8 gpm runs it. Since I got the tractor, almost two years ago now, I’ve been wanting to hook the Case to the splitter.
Tomorrow maybe the day.
Drive oil in the pump and hydraulic motor took a while to cool today after cutting the grass, got up to 132F, which is normal for it, but it was hotter today than the other days I was testing it. 81F with a feels like 95F here today.

So will see what happens tomorrow.

Noel

Good luck Noel. Maybe bring an extra quart of oil for the hydraulic system?

MattA wrote: ↑Fri Jul 07, 2023 9:24 pm Good luck Noel. Maybe bring an extra quart of oil for the hydraulic system?

I’m going to check the oil level in the tractor and top it up. The old splitter cylinder is retracted and the hoses will have oil in them. But will surely take your advice and take oil too.
This splitter has hydraulic oil in to from the Ferguson tractor. But only in the hoses. So not very much.
Once I’m done I am planning to change the oil in the hydraulic system in the tractor. This is something I’ve been wanting to do for quite a while. But wanted to wait until I played with the splitter first.
Sooo, things are still in go ahead mode for today, no mayhem to change plans, yet, so onward we go.

Noel

The front tires on the 224 look good Noel. Good luck with the splitter. I'm fighting my 224 again it's missing firing at full throttle after it ran perfectly for 2 weeks I'm going to open a new thread on that.

Noel that’s what I was thinking. What kind of oil was in the Ferguson hydraulic system, as it wiuld be in the splitter. Good luck splitting. Harry

Harry wrote: ↑Sat Jul 08, 2023 2:13 pm Noel that’s what I was thinking. What kind of oil was in the Ferguson hydraulic system, as it wiuld be in the splitter. Good luck splitting. Harry

Can’t say what kind Harry. All I know the Ferguson has a light hydraulic oil. You can run most anything in the Ferguson depending on temperature. And what you want to use.

Soooo, it works. At first I had the pto hand moved reward. Spiltter would not work, so put the handle in the forward position and away the splitter worked. Set for 5 years, worked great and no leaks.
Hydraulic oil temperature was 74F when I started and when I ended it was 102F, for that amount of wood that was split. When I cut grass it gets to 132F. So I don’t think it will get to hot splitting wood. Nice that ther is a cooler on this tractor. Old Ferguson did not have a cooler. That was just the way it was back then, I’d say.
So about 2500/2600 rpm seems to be a good spot for the speed of the splitter and noise from the tractor.
Will do more soon. Have some apple wood to do. That’ll make her grunt. Hehe.

Noel

https://youtu.be/yTWWPHIik-0

Thanks for the video Noel. The Kihler sounds sweet just purring along.

Splitter working good Noel nice video.

Great video Noel!

Nice video Noel. Great to see everything working the way it should

So today I’m changing the hydraulic oil, ( motor oil ) out of the hydraulic system after running the Case 224 on my old wood splitter that had a little hydraulic oil in it.
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

Noel my 4016 has a plug in the travel control valve for changing the oil that can be removed with an Allen wrench.

MattA wrote: ↑Wed Jul 12, 2023 9:31 pm Noel my 4016 has a plug in the travel control valve for changing the oil that can be removed with an Allen wrench.

I’m sure this one does too, but would have to get the deck off Matt. And I believe I’ve tried to get those plugs out on both Case tractors I have and they would not move.
Even if the plug did come out on the Case224, those pto lines are lower than that plug point. So the oil would never come out of those two lines. Only way to get the oil out of those lines would be to take them off and drain them. Which I might do later today.


Noel

One way to get most of it out is to undo the return hose that goes to the radiator and crank the engine a little. But you'll be fine with what you did.

So. So far the oil change went good. Got out about 4 litres out and put 4 litres back in. No leaks yet. Amazing. And so far it moves and I cut the grass at home with it. Hot today. Oil for drive system got up to 140 F.
Taking it to my sons place tomorrow. So it might cut grass and or split wood.
Will see what happens. Lots to do.

Noel