Being as it’s only 82 degrees out and 8000% humidity I decided it would be as good a day as any to tackle the Hydraulic line issue. I crawl under the bus and figure out what tools I’m going to need. I quickly realize I don’t have a 1.5in adjustable wrench to fit the line. Off to Fleet Farm to see what they have for Hydraulic lines, fluid and pick up a wrench.
It’s a tough angle to get a picture, but this is the Hydraulic splitter (rectangle box on right). I had to pull the bottom line off to get at the middle line(Threaded shiny ish part). Once that was off I snaked out the line and pump together.
The Hydraulic pump. I didn’t take many photos of the removal of the line or pump because I was COVERED from head to toe in grease and dirt. The short story is that I could not for the life of me get a wrench on the line coming off the back of the pump (The threaded part at the top of the picture), so I took of the whole pump with line attached and was able to break it loose in the garage.
There is the culprit. 2 gallons of sweat, 3 hours of fighting and a lot of soap to clean myself off after. Doesn’t look that bad here, right? WRONG! See below.
The Crazy part is that NONE of these pictures contains the Actual blowout spot. That was just a super tiny pinhole that I couldn’t even get a good picture of.
Bottom of Hydraulic reservoir. I pulled the plug and drained it before starting and got another gallon out of it. So all in I think I lost close to 8 gallons of fluid. I still need to figure out what Fluid this uses. There are so many flavors of Hydraulic fluid, plus some of these just used regular old 10w30 motor oil. The oil that came out looked like slightly dirty motor oil so I’m thinking 10w30. Monday will be a trip down the road to a Hydraulic shop to get a new hose made.