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Author Topic: Tractor help - Case 4230 with quicky loader  (Read 3249 times)

bazzais

  • Joined Jan 2010
    • Allt Y Coed Farm and Campsite
Tractor help - Case 4230 with quicky loader
« on: February 12, 2016, 11:18:39 am »
Hi ya all - I have a case 430 with a quickie loader.  The wieght on the rear arms of the tractor stay nice and solid and raised - but the loader seems to fall - and more recently it find it hard to lift.

What would be the first thing you check - it seems that even if I isolate the loader with the valve by the controls the loader seems to fall.

Ta

Barry

verdifish

  • Joined Jan 2013
  • banffshire
Re: Tractor help - Case 4230 with quicky loader
« Reply #1 on: February 12, 2016, 02:04:59 pm »
Hydraulic fluid level, don't top up and then recheck 24hrs later.  If the level has dropped you have a leak.

bazzais

  • Joined Jan 2010
    • Allt Y Coed Farm and Campsite
Re: Tractor help - Case 4230 with quicky loader
« Reply #2 on: February 12, 2016, 09:53:37 pm »
The pto engage lever had dropped its 'cable tie fix' and was on a half setting - doh - fixed it again but this time with two cable ties.  :)

Sudanpan

  • Joined Jan 2009
  • West Cornwall
    • Movement is Life
Re: Tractor help - Case 4230 with quicky loader
« Reply #3 on: February 13, 2016, 03:24:06 pm »
One of the reasons fork lift/telehandler hire places always leave their equipment in the 'up' position is to show there are no leaks with the hydraulics.
However if a pipe blows the arm will come down really fast so NEVER walk under the arms in an up position

bazzais

  • Joined Jan 2010
    • Allt Y Coed Farm and Campsite
Re: Tractor help - Case 4230 with quicky loader
« Reply #4 on: February 14, 2016, 02:55:55 pm »
Mine a bit of a pain in the bum going down all the time - but you dont have to get out when standing in it to paint the house - just start at the top and paint as it falls :)

greenbeast

  • Joined Jul 2014
Re: Tractor help - Case 4230 with quicky loader
« Reply #5 on: February 15, 2016, 03:51:11 pm »
for future reference it could also be failing seals in the hydraulic rams, allowing fluid to seep between one side and the other

 

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