Anyone figure out how to get trans and hydro fluid into that plug on the back of tractor? I cut the bottom off of a quart hydro fluid bottle and used it as a funnel? IT worked but a sloppy messy job.
Adding Trans / Hydraulic Oil
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NCL4701
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ken erickson
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I had a cheapie snap-on funnel that has caps on both ends. Used just for SUDT fluid. But it is just a accordion style funnel. Something like this.
Russell King
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I put 10 gallons in mine recently from 5 gallon pails. I set the pail in the seat, held it in with a bungee cord, just in case. Then started a siphon with a gas siphon bulb through a 1/2” dia vinyl tube. I slid the 1/2” vinyl tube into an 18” length of 3/4” PVC pipe to hold it straight inside of the pail and very near the bottom. Took about an hour for 5 gallons. Didn’t spill any. Got all but about a 1/2 quart out that way.
yes I used to siphon it into the transmission as well...out of 5 gal buckets. Use the biggest hose you can get to fit into the fill hole. I had a piece of 3/4 ID hydraulic hose, barely fit in some of them but it would siphon 5 gal bucket of hyd oil in about 5 minutes. Start siphon, walk off and do something else while it's "working".
Yes, I tried a siphon. I noticed a small bit of old dry leaf in the fluid in there and I think it went into the transmission. Think that would hurt anything?
Yes, as one poster said, you can pull up the seat. I'm done for now and tractor is well covered. I will try that next time.
Orange
It’s interesting you had all of these replies several days ago, stating you even “used many of them in the past”, but never the less today you finished up and your tractor is well covered (with hydraulic fluid presumably).
You mentioned in your first thread you are a mechanic. Given that and your questions, I’m curious as to what type of equipment you work on as a mechanic?
I have led a real life in Alaska, not the fake reality show life and learned to work on boat motors and snow machines in extreme locations under conditions that would make most cry. Also familiar with on the road and off 4x4 trucks and had a few Jap sports cars for years.
(Semi race 240Z etc.) that have been taken on 11 thousand mile trips across Canada and US etc.) As I get older there is a lot I forgot. Not real familiar with tractors. People want me to work on the Alaska bush stuff, but refuse most of the time. Especially good at no shop fixes out on a very remote river bank where the going gets tough and the tough get going.
Sounds like some real world get ‘er done (or else) experience.
When I was young, most of my mechanical work in the dirt (or mud if it was wet). I’ve managed to change the environment and urgency over the years.