questions during hydraulic fluid change

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unclesalty

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Hudson Florida
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09 ct-225 w/loader
Well its time for my hydro maintenance. The short story..Dipstick said the level was good. I drained from all 3 plugs and only got 5 gallons out after at least an hour draining. I filled the 1 filter up and screwed them both on and poured in the new oil. I was just able to get 5 gals back in and the dipstick shows slightly over full. The manual says it should take 8 gals of fluid. should I be worried? (the loader was down all hydraulics were retracted). Im kind of tempted
to run it up to temp and drain and fill again esp if there is still 3 gallons still inside. The old fluid was nasty. Tractor was at 700 hours but its 9 year old fluid so I changed it out early.
 
   / questions during hydraulic fluid change #2  
did you fill your filter?? if not then thats why you are over full . run it a few minutes then let it set and recheck
 
   / questions during hydraulic fluid change #3  
If you have a mid pto you have 4 drain plugs, one on the pto case.
 
   / questions during hydraulic fluid change #4  
Even if your cylinders are retracted they still hold a fair amount of oil.
 
   / questions during hydraulic fluid change
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#5  
If you have a mid pto you have 4 drain plugs, one on the pto case.
duh I had assumed the rear pto had replaced the 3rd plug...Looks like I'm off to get another bucket of fluid.
 

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