Snow rig finally ready

[300jk]

Finally got the 830 all ready for snow.

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Bought the loader a couple months back, that's when the trouble started. It came with a dual valve, so I plumbed it in direct so I could have the remotes. What I didn't know and didn't check for, was a relief valve in that valve. It didn't have one. So the first time the cylinders bottomed, it blew one of the cylinders and the hydraulic pump. Lesson learned there. So got a different valve and replaced the pump and repaired the cylinder and that fixed that up. I had noticed the 3pt would settle down when the tractor was off, so I rebuilt the valve. That worked for a while, then quit again. So I bought a used valve and put that on. While doing that I dropped a piece of linkage down in the rear end, so that meant pulling the pto to get that out. Got that all back together and found the new valve was cracked and leaked. So then I decided to pull mine apart to see if I could find the problem. That was easy ti find.

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That is pieces of the rubber O-ring that goes between the hydraulic pump and pickup tube. It's not from now, so someone must have dropped it into the pto housing at some time and the pump picked it up. Got that all cleaned out and everything works as it should now. I did clean out the rear housing when I had the pto off to get the part I dropped, so there was no more in there.
So what should have been a couple hours work was several days worth by the time I was done. But it seems to all work well now.

That’s a nice snow rig for sure.

 

[Dr Ice]

You guys are in the deep sh'' ah snow all those big blowers and front loaders, heck where I live we may get 18- 20 inches on a bad dump most times it's 6-12, my little MF TO35 gas with 6 ft rear blade and chains digs out what I need and I spend some good will time pushing the snow for the neighbors or sometimes a pull out of the ditch, I live rural and there are some large farms here and those guys have the big stuff.