Face full of hydraulic fluid

[bythepond88]

If you want to restrict the drain flow, you could always remove the fill plug to relieve the pressure, then put it back in before removing the drain plug.

[redfin]

Ed , you are not alone on this. I took a hit of fluid all over my new coat a few winters ago.

[Jim Becker]

If you want to restrict the drain flow, you could always remove the fill plug to relieve the pressure, then put it back in before removing the drain plug.

You really don't want to do this. If you want to find out why with a little less mess, try filling a gallon jug with water. Then dump it out by upending the jug about 3/4 of the way over all at once.

[Rudi]

Ahhhh Ed... the glorious feel of being covered in Hy-Tran...

Been there, done that.. more than once.

Hope all is ok and nothing serious happened. Eyes are pretty sensitive items..

[ScottyD'sdad]

If you want to restrict the drain flow, you could always remove the fill plug to relieve the pressure, then put it back in before removing the drain plug.

Would have done that, if I expected pressure. Drained many touch controls, without a bath. Ed

[Gator809]

Been there done it, got Hytrans from my ear to my shoe once.

Wife laughed at first, then slammed the door in my face after I threatened to walk inside to give her a hug.

Hank

[John *.?-!.* cub owner]

Didn't happen with a cub, but I have been there. I was plowing (cultivating) corn with the old H back when i was a teenager. The cultivator consisted of a right and left front section, and a rear section, each with it's own cylinder. When you pulled the lift rod both front sections would come up, and then the rear. We also had a large anvil mounted on the rear to push it down into the ground better. I had been working for a couple of hours, so everything was good and warm, and when I raised the cultivator at the end of a row, the front sections came up, and when the pressure increased the rear came up. When the rear came up and the system started running against the relief valve a cylinder hose blew out of a fitting at the tractor. The cultivators went down, with the weight forcing the hot oil out of the broken hose with it whipping upward. It started at my left foot, and continued upward covering me with hot oil clear to the top of my head. The old Liftall system used non detergent motor oil rather than Hytran, but that hot oil tasted terrible anyway.

[challenger]

Jim commented on the need to have a vented plug for an auxiliary tank but no one said anything about whether the same should be true for the main touch control reservoir. I do not have the original plug in my TC reservoir and the one I have is not vented. Is it correct that the main TC reservoir plug should be vented?

[Clem]

Take Becker's advice. Same thing happened to me when I had a loader.

[ScottyD'sdad]

Jim commented on the need to have a vented plug for an auxiliary tank but no one said anything about whether the same should be true for the main touch control reservoir. I do not have the original plug in my TC reservoir and the one I have is not vented. Is it correct that the main TC reservoir plug should be vented?

I don't recall any vents, in the main TC tank plug. Ed

[challenger]

I raise the issue with the TC reservoir plug since it seems to me there should be a vent somewhere for the tank. It has been the case in all the systems I am familiar with.

[Jim Becker]

Touch-Control is a closed system. As long as you do maintenance by the book (top off the system with the piston retracted), the basic system requires no venting.

[John *.?-!.* cub owner]

Not being vented reduces the problems with moisture and dust getting into the system.