Hydrylic lift arms will not lower

[Patrick98]

Hi all,

New to the forum...

I have stubbled across a lovely MF 135 mulitpower 3 cyclinder with a front loder. I am about to buy her but the only problem is the hydrualic lift.

The owner told me that he had a concrete block attached to the three point likage for using the loader, and had so for a long time (not sure exactly how long). He took the block off, everything good, the hydrualics lowered and raised when taking the block off. When he went to lower the hydrualics again the next day, she simply did not want to lower her arms. Tried slecting different valve settings and nothing.

The front loader works fine which tells me that pump is ok, (is this logic sound) so what could this be?

Thanks

 

[used red MN]

Hello Patrick welcome to YT! Post this on the Massey
topic section in the link. That is where those with
Massey knowledge hang out.
YT MF and MH topic section

 

[JMOR]

(quoted from post at 18:20:27 09/13/22) Hi all,

New to the forum...

I have stubbled across a lovely MF 135 mulitpower 3 cyclinder with a front loder. I am about to buy her but the only problem is the hydrualic lift.

The owner told me that he had a concrete block attached to the three point likage for using the loader, and had so for a long time (not sure exactly how long). He took the block off, everything good, the hydrualics lowered and raised when taking the block off. When he went to lower the hydrualics again the next day, she simply did not want to lower her arms. Tried slecting different valve settings and nothing.

The front loader works fine which tells me that pump is ok, (is this logic sound) so what could this be?

Thanks

ot going to tell you that your problem/solution will be same as mine on MF275, but when mine became unresponsive, I removed the round side cover on right side and found the roller at top of control fork had come out, so no contact with control arm. Fished roller out put it back in place and tied a zip tie across the fork. A bit "rigged", but been OK for many years.

 

[Patrick98]

oh ok, thanks

 

[Patrick98]

There is a really good youtube video and it qoutes the same issue as you have outline. Thanks for sharing.