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A little story about my day today…….

All went well until I was to check out a tractor with no hydraulics. I started the tractor and the loader and lift arms worked fine. Hmmmm, must be the wrong tractor, so I went back in the shop and checked. Yup! The right one! Driving it into the shop I found nothing wrong. I don’t like jobs where I can’t recreate the problem….. they are pretty hard to fix.

I decided to service the transmission which is where the hydraulic system oil comes from. checking the oil I found it very low, not even on the dipstick, Not a big deal usually because that means it is about 2 gallons low out of 8 or above on most tractor of this size.  There is an internal transmission screen that sometime doesn’t get checked because you have to drain the system to check it. I decided to go there, I figured that would tell me the level of the oil, let me know of other problems if the screen was dirty and give me a head start if I needed to change the oil……………..

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