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By jelly | October 6, 2008
Last week when I was taking out some dead trees I noticed that I had a pretty big hydraulic leak from 3 of the hoses on my tractor. I decided that I would take off the 3 and take them in to have new ones built so I would be ready for winter.
So I took the hoses off, not a trivial matter, took about 45 minutes and I was coated with fluid for my trouble.
took them into the tractor dealership, about 10 miles away because the one that was 4 miles away apparently closed down. I guess that’s to be expected in this economy. $74.00 I have new hoses. I go to put them on on Saturday and noticed that they reused one of my fittings from my old hose. I figured it must have been okay but after 45 minutes of putting the hoses back on, I start the tractor and notice that its still leaking hydraulic from guess where, the center of that fitting.
To say that I was pissed off, would be an understatement. I decide its a small leak so I will try to scrap the field with it and just keep an eye into it, after 5 minutes it starts spewing like old faithful, turn off the tractor Say a lot of swear words. I figured out a way to get the fitting off and off to the store I go. Luckily they had the adapter there so came back put it on and everything works. I have a small leak out of one of the cast fittings but its just a slow drip. I’ll look if I can fix that later but at least for now the tractor is working.
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October 7th, 2008 at 2:43 pm
Did you have reusable fittings on your hoses? I can’t imagine how the dealer could re-use a crimp fitting. Either way, if you paid for a new hose, you should have gotten a new hose, not a hose with your old fittings on it.
October 8th, 2008 at 2:54 pm
no it wasn’t the crimp fitting it was the adapter, the ones that allow you to tighten the fitting without coiling the hose.