Rawleigh99

How about this:

I pulled one on a 175C by blocking the loader arms up with channel iron and using a chain fall from the loader arms. Not easy, but doable. Of course that was 20 years ago, and I wouldn't want to do it now!

I use whatever is handy! Its only purpose is to catch and hold dirt. It is a good place to use i/2 full quarts of mystery oil you find in the shop or tool box! LOL!

Nope, that is a loading dock locator. Back up until it squeals and you should be right at the dock! Getting him in there is one thing, but how do you keep him in there if he wants out!!!

That is pretty resourceful! I would never have thought of that, but I guess it would work.

Duey: I use that grease in the rollers of my Cat D2 since the seals are old and leaky. I also have it in a post hole digger gearbox. Lots of guys are running it in bush hog gearboxes that have leaky seals. If it can survive a bush hog gearbox it ought to do what you need! You can use some old fuel mixed with the new. Maybe run it through a clean rag as you pour it in the funnel. The old stuff usually last pretty well compared to the new fuel. I would add a lubricant with it for the plungers. I have a fuel/oil blender Cummins used to make that I bought at a farm auction. it filters and blends 5% used motor oil with the fuel (it has 2 big filters, one for just the oil and one for the blended product.) Two stroke or Marvel is the way I would go.

Check any other hoses down in there while you are at it. If the one is rotten others may be too! It would be disappointing to get it all together and then lose all your new fluid to another leak in a very inconvenient location for repair!

Good news! Harbor Freight or Northern both have large wrenches at reasonable prices. I know they aren't Snap On, but they are large enough that you will never break them on anything you will use them on and cheap enough that you won't mind cutting them if you have to. I had to cut up some large wrenches to get the hoses on the underside of a TD9 Drott loader.

And it ain't fish . . .!!!

For a 12 year old!! Gald you got through it Mike! i hope never to have one, but I remember my Dad did, so who knows!

1 inch or 11/8 inch. The dash numbers are 1/16 per.

I have one like the top picture.

LOL! And the body doesn't even look that bad! Bolt a tie plate on the frame and sell it to the next sucker!

I have had a Schumacher for years. I did have to replace the battery 5 years ago. The replacement only cost $18. For Christmas I got one of those Lithium Ion packs, but the jury is still out on how long it will last!

They probably got added to the hamburger!!! Yuck!