NorTrac OHOH

[JoeMartin]

I normally would never go near one of these, just expecting it to break the first week. Well, several years ago my buddy had a rental house, and the renter couldn't make his payment. So he told my friend to "Just keep the tractor". Now he has sold the rental house and asked me if I'd give him $2000 for it. FEL, Bush Hog, and Grader box, 20HP 3 cylinder diesel, 4X4. It had 248 hours on it when I got it, I've run it up to 275. This little bugger works. I'm more than happy with it. Plus, it will just fit on my dump trailer so I can run it back and forth to my property in WV from MD.

The question. I was checking all of the fluids and grease fittings. The hydro oil was just barely touching the bottom of the dip stick. I put 2 quarts in it and that brought it just up to full. Every thing has been working as it should. With the stay at home order, I've been splitting firewood, and using the tractor a lot. I've got a heavy drip from the weep hole in the bottom of the bell housing. I started thinking about it, when I checked the hydro oil the loader was up and the 3 point was all the way up. So, a lot of fluid would be in those cylinders. Do you think I over filled the hydro reservior causing it to leak?
 

[David Snipes]

[David Snipes]

Trying again. Normally all hydraulic instruments should be lowered before checking the level.
 

[sotxbill]

as David said... check the level with everything lowered or every up.. .but always check in the same position!!!!!... every time... so that then you can see any oil usage.. checking one time up and next time down will give you a huge change in fluid levels due cyl's having a rod on one side, take up more space than the other.

weeping at the bell housing is usually either the rear engine oil seal or less often, the front transmission seal leaking... fairly common, and not usually a worry unless it leaking a lot... couple of drips now and then are normal.



Its possible for a high pressure pump to have a bad seal and pump fluid into another compartment, especially on 40 year old tractors where the seals have become hard.