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So I’ll wrap up with this last post and also try to give you some cost perspective (I did this June 2020). First….the best news of all is that my repair scheme here worked beautifully!! I feel like I died and went to Heaven given that I now have a tractor with power steering (that I did not...

The first and second slides below show the failure of the adaptor plate pressure relief valve. There was no way to repair the obliterated seat thread in the adaptor plate. The third slide describes the function of the gerotor/adaptor plate and how the pressure relief valve worked to control...

First, I pressure washed as best I could all around the hydrostatic transmission (HST), hydraulic oil tank, and main pump.. Then, I situated the tractor where I wanted to work on it for a few days. I lifted the back-hoe boom, crowd-dipper, and bucket to farthest up and out position as it will...