mfrade
Well-known member
Liquids do NOT compress! Doesn't matter if oil or water, it will not compress.
-
This community needs YOUR help today!
With the ever-increasing fees of maintaining our vibrant community (servers, software, domains, email), we need help.
We need more Supporting Members today.Please invest back into this community to help spread our love and knowledge of all aspects of IH Cub Cadet and other garden tractors.
Why Join?
- Exclusive Access: Gain entry to private forums.
- Special Perks: Enjoy enhanced account features that enrich your experience, including the ability to disable ads.
- Free Gifts: Sign up annually and receive exclusive IH Cub Cadet Tractor Forum decals directly to your door!
This is your chance to make a difference. Become a Supporting Member today:
Hy-tran
- Thread starter cubs4lifeofme
- Start date
Help Support IH Cub Cadet Forum:
cubs4lifeofme
Well-known member
Fire it up, rotate the lever and you'll find out.
It's the air churned into the oil making it look like a milkshake is what is compressing and making thinks not work worth a chit!
jkoenig
In Remembrance 2023
- Joined
- Sep 14, 2002
- Messages
- 1,319
- displayname
- Jim Koenig Halfway between Harvester, MO and Cadet, MO
That lever is for how much foam you want on top of your milkshake.
Sorry. Just being a smart alek. I can't help myself, but I am interested too, since I am a newbie to hydros.
Sorry. Just being a smart alek. I can't help myself, but I am interested too, since I am a newbie to hydros.
dware
Well-known member
Water will compress BECAUSE of the air present in the water.
hydroharry
Well-known member
- Joined
- Jul 22, 2007
- Messages
- 4,468
- displayname
- Harry Bursell
Hahaha - geez, I'm wondering about that lever too. Maybe it adjusts the tension on a spring assist. I guess that could be considered Higher/Lower.
mfrade
Well-known member
Oh brother.. thanks for the laugh. And if you're running the system low enough to aerate the fluid, you've got other problems.
kphill
Well-known member
It looks like someone thought that because it is called a hydro you need to add water...
so that funny rattling sound is not normal in a hyd. pump ???
hyd. heigth control for deck (on an 1864)
cubs4lifeofme
Well-known member
Can i use Ford ATF without damaging anything to flush it out ?
Yes, I said that already.
cubs4lifeofme
Well-known member
What i meant was that i was told you shouldnt use ford atf in a chevy so was curious if this was the same way here.
mfrade
Well-known member
Mixing ATF types in an automatic trans will do some "strange or weird" things as they use different friction modifiers, But using it in cub cadet transaxle will pose you no problem(s) Some folks on here (myself included) use to run it year round. In the 80's Ford manual trannys used atf to help the trans in shifting. the "heavy" gear oils used before that would make it hard to shift. Especially in the winter.
jkoenig
In Remembrance 2023
- Joined
- Sep 14, 2002
- Messages
- 1,319
- displayname
- Jim Koenig Halfway between Harvester, MO and Cadet, MO
Mike,
I was in high school in the early 80’s and learned that Ford used it in their then current manual transmissions, so that’s what I put in my top loader 4 speed when I put it in my 66 Mustang instead of the Borg Warner it came to me with.
The only problem was that they used different bearings, and mine didn’t hold up. It gave out at college 100 miles from home, but the Shelby American annual meeting that year was in Tulsa, and the St. Louis crowd went right past my college town on their way, and one of them was able to deliver a transmission, and I changed it in the dorm lot. That one got gear oil in it. Yes it was a touch stiff in cold weather, but then so am I now.
I was in high school in the early 80’s and learned that Ford used it in their then current manual transmissions, so that’s what I put in my top loader 4 speed when I put it in my 66 Mustang instead of the Borg Warner it came to me with.
The only problem was that they used different bearings, and mine didn’t hold up. It gave out at college 100 miles from home, but the Shelby American annual meeting that year was in Tulsa, and the St. Louis crowd went right past my college town on their way, and one of them was able to deliver a transmission, and I changed it in the dorm lot. That one got gear oil in it. Yes it was a touch stiff in cold weather, but then so am I now.
hydroharry
Well-known member
- Joined
- Jul 22, 2007
- Messages
- 4,468
- displayname
- Harry Bursell
Well - did I miss it some place. Just what the _ _ _ _ is that Higher/Lower lever in the pic at post #22?
mfrade
Well-known member
Well, we're almost the same age Jim. I ran type F in my "73" with no problems.
But a cub trans and a early Mustang trans are surely 2 very different applications. Did you ever open the Mustang trans after?
I'd be curious if the oil attacked the bronze components. And also in this case we're not talking about running the oil for a long time, just a fill move it around around and dump it out. But thanks for sharing your experience, it would make me a lot more cautious now!
But a cub trans and a early Mustang trans are surely 2 very different applications. Did you ever open the Mustang trans after?
I'd be curious if the oil attacked the bronze components. And also in this case we're not talking about running the oil for a long time, just a fill move it around around and dump it out. But thanks for sharing your experience, it would make me a lot more cautious now!
Harry, on an 1864 it is for adjusting hyd. deck level setting. Nope don't know how it works but that's what the info says...The 1864 has hyd. deck and steering .It was a high end machine..If need I can take a pic...
jkoenig
In Remembrance 2023
- Joined
- Sep 14, 2002
- Messages
- 1,319
- displayname
- Jim Koenig Halfway between Harvester, MO and Cadet, MO
Mike,
i didn’t mean to cause you concern. It should be fine for a run and flush. The guy who brought me the replacement top loader took the old one apart. That was back before I had been inside of any transmissions. He told me they used different bearings. I don’t remember if he mentioned anything about the bronze (CRS).
...I do remember HE was also the one who told me they used ATF in the then current ones, and got me into that predicament.
i didn’t mean to cause you concern. It should be fine for a run and flush. The guy who brought me the replacement top loader took the old one apart. That was back before I had been inside of any transmissions. He told me they used different bearings. I don’t remember if he mentioned anything about the bronze (CRS).
...I do remember HE was also the one who told me they used ATF in the then current ones, and got me into that predicament.
