damianhaarhoff
New User
Greetings,
I have a Ford 9n tractor. I was using a box blade when all of a sudden the lift arms stopped working. They would not go up or down. I detached the box blade and as I drove to the garage, the arms raised up but will not lower. I am no expert (as you will soon figure out!) but not afraid to learn so I drained the hydraulic fluid and opened the bottom plate (shown in the attached photo) to see if there was any obvious problem. I removed all the bolts and tried to pry it off with a screwdriver. At this point the arms dropped suddenly as if something had become unstuck and I was able to manually move them up and down. Any ideas as to what happened here?
In the process, I created another problem for myself. In trying to remove this plate, I found that it is obviously still attached to something inside. With all the prying, I ended up damaging the gasket in several places. Any ideas on how to remove the plate so that I can put in a new gasket and avoid any future leaks?
I will confess that for several months I have had a leak coming from where the lift arm attaches to the tractor and I have just been catching the fluid in a bucket and pouring it back into the tractor along with all the dirt and bugs that accumulated in it. I was doing this to buy some time until I could fix the leak which I should have done a long time ago! Would the dirty fluid have anything to do with the arms locking up or failing to work properly? (And yes, I will be fixing this leak and doing a flush before I run the tractor again so that I can keep clean fluid in it!)
Well, not being sure as to whether the problem with the arms is resolved or not, do you have any other ideas as to how I can properly troubleshoot the problem with the arms not working?
Thank you for your help!
I have a Ford 9n tractor. I was using a box blade when all of a sudden the lift arms stopped working. They would not go up or down. I detached the box blade and as I drove to the garage, the arms raised up but will not lower. I am no expert (as you will soon figure out!) but not afraid to learn so I drained the hydraulic fluid and opened the bottom plate (shown in the attached photo) to see if there was any obvious problem. I removed all the bolts and tried to pry it off with a screwdriver. At this point the arms dropped suddenly as if something had become unstuck and I was able to manually move them up and down. Any ideas as to what happened here?
In the process, I created another problem for myself. In trying to remove this plate, I found that it is obviously still attached to something inside. With all the prying, I ended up damaging the gasket in several places. Any ideas on how to remove the plate so that I can put in a new gasket and avoid any future leaks?
I will confess that for several months I have had a leak coming from where the lift arm attaches to the tractor and I have just been catching the fluid in a bucket and pouring it back into the tractor along with all the dirt and bugs that accumulated in it. I was doing this to buy some time until I could fix the leak which I should have done a long time ago! Would the dirty fluid have anything to do with the arms locking up or failing to work properly? (And yes, I will be fixing this leak and doing a flush before I run the tractor again so that I can keep clean fluid in it!)
Well, not being sure as to whether the problem with the arms is resolved or not, do you have any other ideas as to how I can properly troubleshoot the problem with the arms not working?
Thank you for your help!
