What Happened? Transmission Oil

heymack · Apr 14, 2006

Greetings:

I recently purchased a Ford 555A loader backhoe with four speeds and a shuttle shift. Being the diligent type, I decided to change the oil and transmission fluid. Naturally the oil change went as expected, but something strange happened after I drained and refilled the transmission.

The operator's manual calls for Ford 41 transmission fluid so I went over to my nearest tractor dealership which happens to be a New Holland store. I asked for Ford 41 fluid and the guy wasn't sure what it was so he ran back to the service dept. and when he came back he told me that NH 410B is what I needed. So I drain ~ five gallons of old fluid, replace the filter and refill with ~ five gallons of the new stuff.

Now my hoe won't go! Yes, it was working just fine before the fluid swap.

I've checked and rechecked the fluid level (it's perfect) and run through all four gears and tried forward and reverse....NOTHING.

Anybody have any ideas? Did I use the wrong fluid? What's an equivalent to Ford 41? Could I have messed anything up?

On a related note, the hydraulic system calls for Ford 58. I'm a little low after replacing a hydraulic hose so I need to know what fluid to put in to bring it up to the proper level....yes, I 'm a little gun shy right now.

Thanks for your help.

Soundguy · Apr 14, 2006

I'm kinda suprised they did not reccomend M2C134D type UTF oil..

Soundguy

LeadPoison · Apr 15, 2006

Are you getting the reccomended 2.1 jiggawatts to the flux capacitor? /forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif

I really haven't a clue as to what it could be.

Soundguy · Apr 16, 2006

( Are you getting the reccomended 2.1 jiggawatts to the flux capacitor?
)

?????

Soundguy

CarlGlas · Apr 16, 2006

The flux capacitor is what makes time travel possible.

heymack · Apr 16, 2006

OK, I figured everything out and also determined that I'm a moron. There are two fill holes in the cab floorboard, one for the tranny and one for the rear axle. I inadvertently dumped five gallons of tranny fluid into the rear axle sump. I don't know what's scarier, my incompetence or the fact that the rear axle sump was able to take five gallons.

Long story short, I got both refilled with the correct fluids and capacities. Now everything is working very smoothly as expected....live and learn.

Hey Soundguy, the NH 410B is the same as the M2C134D.

Mike_Lipke · Apr 16, 2006

I just hope that you didn't gall the Rendler Spindler, which would of course then cause the muffler bearing to fail.

Soundguy · Apr 17, 2006

( The flux capacitor is what makes time travel possible. )

I'm quite familiar with the reference to the flux capacitor.. what I was asking was what it had to do with my comment about the M2C134D oil reference I made.

Soundguy