You don’t want to expose your hydraulic jack to much weather either. Over time it can cause pitting to chrome on the jack. Then when you use the machine the pits can damage the seal.
Thank you, I just bought a used Ford 5500 and the steering was pulsating or manual. Had some time today and took off the power steering filter full of cappuccino coffee. My question is there a way to purge those lines out without the filter screwed on? I do know the power steering pump gets its fluid directly from the last third of the right hand hydraulic reservoir, there is a cross-over tube to the left side tank above it. I was thinking about while it is sitting to pull the drain plugs and drain as much contaminated fluid out of the bottom of each reservoir. The system wet holds about 41 to 47 gallons and completely empty 67 gallons. I want to purge as much stuff in the lines back to the reservoirs before dumping all for a complete change and filter change. Could you review my strategy for gaps in logic/methods?
Nice tip about boiling the water off. I might try that. I'm sure a metal bucket would be useful. Got an old 580b and I somehow got water in the trans, not sure how it got there as I store the tractor indoors and there is no rad/trans cooler I can see.
This dude is crazy, do more research on the subject. If you have water getting into your hydraulic system from a bad seal, you probably don't have any hydraulic fluid in your system. Hydraulic systems operate at hundreds of pounds of pressure, rainwater has zero pressure and for reference your garden hose is at 15 psi max? Does this even make sense? Or do all industrial equipment manufactures not use engineers or not have one on staff to maybe look at these issues to limit law suites and recalls?
Thanks for the information
Thank you for this info , im dealing with this right now in my case 580 e backhoe ,,
You don’t want to expose your hydraulic jack to much weather either. Over time it can cause pitting to chrome on the jack. Then when you use the machine the pits can damage the seal.
Thank you,
I just bought a used Ford 5500 and the steering was pulsating or manual. Had some time today and took off the power steering filter full of cappuccino coffee. My question is there a way to purge those lines out without the filter screwed on?
I do know the power steering pump gets its fluid directly from the last third of the right hand hydraulic reservoir, there is a cross-over tube to the left side tank above it. I was thinking about while it is sitting to pull the drain plugs and drain as much contaminated fluid out of the bottom of each reservoir. The system wet holds about 41 to 47 gallons and completely empty 67 gallons. I want to purge as much stuff in the lines back to the reservoirs before dumping all for a complete change and filter change.
Could you review my strategy for gaps in logic/methods?
Nice tip about boiling the water off. I might try that. I'm sure a metal bucket would be useful. Got an old 580b and I somehow got water in the trans, not sure how it got there as I store the tractor indoors and there is no rad/trans cooler I can see.
This dude is crazy, do more research on the subject. If you have water getting into your hydraulic system from a bad seal, you probably don't have any hydraulic fluid in your system. Hydraulic systems operate at hundreds of pounds of pressure, rainwater has zero pressure and for reference your garden hose is at 15 psi max? Does this even make sense? Or do all industrial equipment manufactures not use engineers or not have one on staff to maybe look at these issues to limit law suites and recalls?