Recent content by orange1

Eric, I think you nailed it. I decided to change out the hydraulic fluid since I found a lot of trash in it when I cleaned the strainer. It was also a recommendation from one of you guys on this forum. Anyway, I decided to turn that control knob one more time because it was hard to turn. I put...

The former owner has alzimers and is in a nursing home. I do not know if he properly maintained the tractor or not. It had 200 hours on it when I bought it from his son. I bought new transmission fluid but I have not replaced it. I did notice a lot of particles in it when I drained enought to...

I removed the hydraulic screen and cleaned it. There was a lot of paint particles in both the fluid and the screen. After replacement, the lift worked much better but was still a bit jerky. I wonder if some of the particles could have gotten inside the pump components.

There was a problem with the flow control knob when I first got the tractor. I put the three point hitch up an down many times before I knew what that knob did. I checked it out and found it was in the closed (transport) position. I opened it back up but the emplements went up and down even in...

Thanks for the info. I have previously added hydraulic fluid because the previous owner had a hydraulic hose blow off and the fluid was low by about 2gallons. I did not check the filter screen, however. I have been reading about changing the filter and found I will need to capture a lot of fluid...

Kubota model L3000DT with about 250 hours on it. The lift does not come up smoothly when I try to raise an emplement. If I move the lift lever very slowly, it will only move the emplement up in increments and causes it to jerk and overshoot. Any ideas ?