Hydraulic dipstick missing on H

thank you very much for your help and time and I wish you all a happy new year

Posted by Lynn (Ia) on April 23, 1999 at 18:32:51:

In Reply to: Re: Re: Re: Hydraulics on '47 M posted by Bob on April 23, 1999 at 07:26:52:

Just got back from the barn. My dipstick measures 11&1/4 inches from the top of the filler tube. The full mark is located 2" up from the bottom. This would mean that full is 9&1/4" down from the top of the filler tube. Suggest using a heavy guage wire (like #9) & bending a loop at the top & notching it at the full mark. You could then hang it on the tractor for fast checks. Hope this helps. Lynn

Pulling the belly pump I found it had ruptured from the pressure from the cultipacker going down and not having a vent. The front of the case split horizontally and moved forward hitting the pressure plate and breaking all three ears off the pressure plate.

I put in an old pressure plate and clutch, and robbed a belly pump from an old MD. I got everything together in a few days of spare time and took it for a test spin. It always feels so good to get something going again. About 1/4 mile from the house, in road gear, it slowed and then stopped. I towed it back to the house and could only turn it over one way with a big screwdriver. After several tries it won't turn at all. We think the side load on the flywheel busted the crank in the rear main and now it is bound up with thrust both ways. It's been ten years and the tractor is still waiting for a teardown.

I don't fill the belly pumps too full any more.

I don't have pressure quick disconnects so I always have to lower implements before disconnecting. My second error here was, in a hurry of course, hooking the cultipacker up to make sure the tractr would lift it off the stop, then thinking "don't be a fool check the hydraulic fluid" so I topped it off with the implement raised which I rarely do. Even in the field when replenishing a leaky hydraulic system the implement is usually on the ground because you don't know it needs fluid until it won't lift.