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    L185F brakes... again

    I have a grinding noise when either right or left brakes are applied, and so I drained the trans oil and pulled the final drive off. I removed the wet disk brake and examined. There is the odd small blue spot, so I think at some point this was driven with a brake stuck on by a previous owner. It...
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    Lights-the final solution

    On my L1501 the headlights are the plastic push and turn sockets that have the little legs snap off them and your bulb dangles inside the grill like a Halloween pumpkin light. I decided not to do the definition of insanity and keep replacing them hoping for a better result. And I wanted to try...
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    Mounting a pump and making a adjustable link.

    Recently, I was given a hydraulic log splitter on a trailer. Ancient Wisconsin 12 horse engine that was on it had died. I decided that it was better to run the splitter off the tractor, and as the hydraulics are too small to do this, I would need a pump. First thing I had to do was to raise up...
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    L1500 servicing

    First post here. I have acquired a L175 with 834 hours on the clock, that I determined to be a L1500 because of the 4 speed PTO. It has been cared for, but I am going over everything, and so far in all the manuals and service data I have collected there is nothing about the brakes or the final...