Help?

[Febrink]

I plowed snow most of the day yesterday with my L6060. Drove home and as I approchaed my lane I noticed it was starting to steer like I had a flat. Fifty feet further along it would not turn. I stopped the tractor and got out to look. I noticed I was pouring trans/hydraulic fluid out from the area just behind the front axle. No steering no pedal no loader. I used the truck to pull it off the road. Today I put about seven and half gallons of fluid in it and brought it up to almost full. I started the tractor and still have no hydraulics, pedal, or steering. It was dark by the time I got that far so I shut it down for the night. It is setting half in my lane and half in the neighbors yard. When I started it I did not see fluid leaking. At first thought it was a line at the oil cooler. Now I am concerned the pump is shot also. Any ideas or has anyone seen this before? I did not hit anything and was not working ice just powder snow.

 

[Pau7220]

Pump may be ok, you may have just emptied out the system enough that the suction side of the pump won’t draw up the fluid. Cracking a discharge line may burp it. Or it may require removing the inlet line at the pump and dumping fluid into the pump to rewet it and create a vacuum.
There‘s a chance it will prime itself tomorrow when all that aerated fluid has a chance to settle down.

 

[North Idaho Wolfman]

Find the leak first!

 

[old and tired]

....At first thought it was a line at the oil cooler...

This would be my first guess....

 

[Febrink]

Thank you everyone, the line was not loose it was completely off. I put it back on and tightened the clamp back down. Once this was done and started everything worked. There is a whine that I’ve not heard before. I am assuming the air will work itself out or do I need to bleed the systems? Thanks again for the insight!

 

[North Idaho Wolfman]

Thank you everyone, the line was not loose it was completely off. I put it back on and tightened the clamp back down. Once this was done and started everything worked. There is a whine that I’ve not heard before. I am assuming the air will work itself out or do I need to bleed the systems? Thanks again for the insight!

No bleeding required.

 

[old and tired]

Reminder to everyone, check the tightness of the hose clamps to the cooling unit!!!!! Has happened too many times...