Check your hydraulic screen/filter

[careyo63]

You did good. As I recall I paid around $60 to replace the mangled screen in the photo.

The good news is a couple of years ago when I opened up the transmission to replace the right axle housing, the fluid was so clean (after several years) that I just wiped the sump clean with rags, filtered the fluid with almost nothing found, then re-used it. For a Powershift I would get new fluid but for this simple gear tractor, YM240, which doesn't get many hours per year, that seemed sufficient.

It was done really well but still bent up. Come to think about it someone from yrs. ago asked me for it on here. After comparing the 2 I told them to pay the shipping and welcome to it. Which they did and never heard anything more. Which to me was a good thing because if something was wrong I'd heard about it!!!...... You should know that's how it goes.

 

[clemsonfor]

Here is the pic of my screen. Several tears along the main seam and then a longer one where it connects to the housing.