I thought I was about done with this tractor I've been working on but yesterday before I loaded it up to take it back to the club house I remembered that I still needed to check the fluid levels in the transmission and Rear of the tractor. I removed the check plug for the transmission and out poured this white looking fluid from the hole. This usually means water has gotten in there somehow. I don't know of any oils that are this color so something has happened for sure. I looked inside of the fill hole and everything looks ok, I mean I don't see any rusting going on and the gears I can see show very little if any wear.
I went to check the rear end and that plug will not budge. I put everything I had on the plug and all that was happening is the wrench was flexing from the torque. I might try a little heat to see if that will help. That's not the worst thing when I removed the fill plug I could see no oil at all and I could see a couple gears that have pretty good wear marks on them. Everything still works ok and I've never heard any noise coming from that area. There are a couple leaks under the gear case and a lot coming from around the PTO shaft. I'm thinking I'll try to put a new PTO seal in just to get a feel for what else may come up.
I'm pretty sure the reason for this leak is that the universal joint where it goes into the gearbox on this bush hog went bad and they kept running it until it through the whole shaft out into the field. Also, the way someone had the bush hog set up was way off to where when you tried to level it the shaft would grind on the top of the deck right at the front. This is probably what caused the joint to fail as well as the seal at the PTO shaft.
I haven't dug into this yet but am wondering what is involved in changing out this seal. The service manual I got off the site is worthless as nip nips on a bore hog when it comes to using it to try and fix something.
I went to check the rear end and that plug will not budge. I put everything I had on the plug and all that was happening is the wrench was flexing from the torque. I might try a little heat to see if that will help. That's not the worst thing when I removed the fill plug I could see no oil at all and I could see a couple gears that have pretty good wear marks on them. Everything still works ok and I've never heard any noise coming from that area. There are a couple leaks under the gear case and a lot coming from around the PTO shaft. I'm thinking I'll try to put a new PTO seal in just to get a feel for what else may come up.
I'm pretty sure the reason for this leak is that the universal joint where it goes into the gearbox on this bush hog went bad and they kept running it until it through the whole shaft out into the field. Also, the way someone had the bush hog set up was way off to where when you tried to level it the shaft would grind on the top of the deck right at the front. This is probably what caused the joint to fail as well as the seal at the PTO shaft.
I haven't dug into this yet but am wondering what is involved in changing out this seal. The service manual I got off the site is worthless as nip nips on a bore hog when it comes to using it to try and fix something.