freedhardwoods
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I made a new thread about adding a 3 point hitch.
Getting My Tractor Ready For Work
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freedhardwoods
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I took the tractor for a short test drive and apparently cleaning up the brake discs was all it needed to stop the brake from sticking.
ShawnAgne
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What you'll see is stuff will still go up and down just fine. However if you are holding stuff in the up position and its heavy over time it will start to drop.
Your motor should do around 60psi on the oil pressure. If it starts there and drops or just is lower its the oil pump leaking under the cover. You can fix it, but as I was told with my 100, as long as there is somthing its ok.
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freedhardwoods
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Heavy things falling over time won't affect me one bit because I do not let heavy things be suspended by hydraulics. I have seen hoses snap two different times with no one around when they were holding something heavy up. That is a severe hazard. I've also seen crane cables snap twice. One of those times it dropped a 43000 pound steel coil on my trailer and I was on the trailer. Fortunately, it was only a foot above the floor so it didn't do too much damage.
As far as oil pressure goes, i think the bearings may be worn a little on this engine because it was only carrying about thirty pounds at higher rpm's. Before I changed oil. I put in three and a half quarts of 10w30 and one and a half quarts of lucas oil additive, and now it carries about forty five pounds in higher rpms.
I am a big believer in lucas oil products. I have many stories about how that has saved equipment of mine. I guess I should start a thread telling all my stories.
ShawnAgne
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By heavy things I was refering to plows and machinery the tractor carries while using them and while driving down the road, etc. My 300 will do this over time with the woods 306 as there is no check valve on the cylinder for that. I kept mine on because the engineers back in the day did it for a reason. Was no refering to loads that you are mentioning. In that case yes suspension of those loads is not a good thing. Being able to hold up a plow or some machinery while you are driving and not having to worry about it slowly dropping is another thing.
The reason 9 times out of 10 the oil pump has low pressure is because the plate on it is warped and it is leaking. It is made of thin pot metal. You can easily remove the pump. Then using a piece of glass with sand paper on it flatten it back out. Just make sure the gears have proper clearance when you put it back on. Lucas oil products are nice things but in this case it is a band aid instead of a solution to the problem.
freedhardwoods
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I knew you meant equipment when you were talking about the tractor. One of the things I was referring to in my previous thread was a disc that dropped with no warning when the hose snapped.. The 3 point hitch on my little John Deere leaks off rather quickly when I have the five hundred pound counterweight on it. I am used to it. It doesn't matter if it's 500 pounds or 50,000 pounds, if you're underneath it when it comes down. I will see how fast it leaks off and then decide whether I want to put it back on or not.
On the oil pressure, I will check the pump sometime in the future and see if that would help. Years ago I ran a pickup on fifty-fifty mix of oil and Lucas for years until the compression got so bad it quit running. It was gutless, but it got you from point a to b. I see no point in spending a lot of money on an overhaul until you need to.
No more hours than I will put on that tractor it will run fine on oil and Lucas for the next ten years.
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ShawnAgne
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Understand, but fixing the oil pump took me all of about an hour on my 100 and then it was functioning the way it should at the correct pressure.
freedhardwoods
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I agree that what you are saying is the correct way to fix the problem. Over the years, though it has become second nature to me to fix problems with " band aids" as you call it. In the case of low oil pressure on my tractor, my way of thinking is why spend time doing mechanical repairs, when I can fix the problem doing regular maintenance that I would be doing anyway. If you notice in many of the things I talk about on this forum you will see that line of thinking.
One example is the story about my air compressor in my Lucas thread. Most people would think if a rod seized on a crankshaft, you have to have new parts. I used really thick oil to take up the space in the worn parts and I didn't even have to replace the seal that leaked out the oil in the first place. The oil level never drops. I did that twenty years ago and it's still running.
I know many people would disagree with me but I don't consider my repairs " band aids" when they last for years, or even decades.
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