Oh it's a lady. She may not appreciate the inherant beauty of a rusty Citroen.shes a bit different.... I shouldn't have started building it in view of her house....
Oh it's a lady. She may not appreciate the inherant beauty of a rusty Citroen.shes a bit different.... I shouldn't have started building it in view of her house....
Hi.Well... I finally got around to looking at the tractor again. Fitted up the new filters, bleed it and it was away .... took hardly any time at all. So there you go, if you have NOS filters around ... throw the damn things in the bin. The paper in them must turn old yellow and rock hard.... leaving you with a big unbleedable mess ere there should be a filter!
seeya
Shane L.
used to be a problem way back when with Ryco. I had a little tray with the small Toyota engine, liteace ?, the Ryco filter supplied ex NZ always had the wrong O ring with it - I think it needed a 'D' section and they packed a flat one. Local distributor sent me a little bag of the correct rings. Well, Ryco was easy to source and cheap... first warnings....Thats good news Shane, sounds like you need to take the filter housing down to your local friendly hydraulics place and get a new "O" ring and then all should be good.
that's what I was thinking. Pull the plate off the side of the gearbox. Fingers crossed there is no spring loaded parts behind it!Shane, loosen or remove the cover plate on the right side of the box and the oil (or water) will drain out.
Roger
my first thought was to fill it with oil.... but oil floats on water, so you would never displace the water!DC A quick sort of fix would be to overfill with a heavy oil. Oil floats on water so that should displace the water. Later you can perhaps warm up the box with an acetylene or other gas torch and that might remove more water, then siphon out the heavy oil and refill with recommended final fill....not perfect but a start..
that's what I was thinking. Pull the plate off the side of the gearbox. Fingers crossed there is no spring loaded parts behind it!
Brilliant, thanks!No spring loaded parts behind it. You can remove it with confidence. I have checked the service manual. It says that's how you drain the oil.
Roger
I was going to say tip the tractor upside down, this sounds like the easier option.Shane, loosen or remove the cover plate on the right side of the box and the oil (or water) will drain out.
Roger
You haven't met my mum. The cataracts stopped her driving but she loves a good collection of beautiful rusty garden art.Oh it's a lady. She may not appreciate the inherant beauty of a rusty Citroen.
She needs to get those cataracts fixed so she can fully appreciate a rusty French car in all its beauty. My mum had hers done. It was really weird seeing her reading without glasses after 25 years of seeing her wearing them.You haven't met my mum. The cataracts stopped her driving but she loves a good collection of beautiful rusty garden art.
On the waiting list with one of the best eye docs in Melbourne (the same guy who did dad's cataracts and eye pressure stents) .... Other eye problems need to heal first. Currently, from the back seat she can see well enough without her glasses to tell dad he's speeding. The 308 has a nice clear display.She needs to get those cataracts fixed so she can fully appreciate a rusty French car in all its beauty. My mum had hers done. It was really weird seeing her reading without glasses after 25 years of seeing her wearing them.
Hi Shane.So who can explain this. This would have been full of water for decades (as I've always kept it in a shed, and so did the previous owner).
That wouldn't even be a 50ml of thick moisture tainted oil
Bizarre right? why isn't it a rusty lump of frozen rubbish You can see how much oil versus water was in it here:
Guess who going to drop a bit of gearbox oil tonight ..... to make sure we have oil and not water in there ......Hi Shane.
I think that for once the gods have smiled on you and you have "Lucked In".
Enjoy it while it lasts.
Cheers.