IIIBradIII
Bronze Member
Well my saga continues and my tractor is *almost* put back together. Can't wait to get back on that horse.
The dealer just called me about the hydraulic filter replacement I asked them to do while they had it. When the tech pulled off the side plate to access the filter (after they drained the fluid of course) he saw a wire across/around the filter and he called me asking what to do about it. Apparently he wasn't expecting to see this and he said he called MF tech support already and they also agreed that it shouldn't be there. He can't find any mention of it on parts blowups or schematics either. He indicated that it was almost wrapped around the filter itself and he was afraid of cutting it in case it was holding something else together in there (his thinking is that since both he and MF tech support don't think it should be there at all for the filter, it must be there for something else, right? Like maybe holding something in place that's broken?).
So before he cut the thing, he wanted my blessing in case it caused more problems and they had to lift the top plate off (more labor costs). I looked up a few threads here in the forum and see several mentions of a tie wire across the wing nut that holds on the filter - apparently it's to keep the wing nut from backing off. So, it makes sense to me that it belongs there. After all, it would be a Very Bad Thing® for that filter & housing/nut to fall down into the pump, right?
I told him to go ahead and cut it to change the filter and I'll take my chances that it is indeed there for the filter/wingnut.
So I have two questions.
#1) Did I do the right thing?
#2) Do I need to stress to them the importance of putting another wire back on?
My concern with having them put another one on is that neither this tech nor MF tech support know anything about it, so how do I know he'll even do it right? I can see problems ahead if he screws it up and that wire comes loose, dropping down in the pump or gears.
The dealer just called me about the hydraulic filter replacement I asked them to do while they had it. When the tech pulled off the side plate to access the filter (after they drained the fluid of course) he saw a wire across/around the filter and he called me asking what to do about it. Apparently he wasn't expecting to see this and he said he called MF tech support already and they also agreed that it shouldn't be there. He can't find any mention of it on parts blowups or schematics either. He indicated that it was almost wrapped around the filter itself and he was afraid of cutting it in case it was holding something else together in there (his thinking is that since both he and MF tech support don't think it should be there at all for the filter, it must be there for something else, right? Like maybe holding something in place that's broken?).
So before he cut the thing, he wanted my blessing in case it caused more problems and they had to lift the top plate off (more labor costs). I looked up a few threads here in the forum and see several mentions of a tie wire across the wing nut that holds on the filter - apparently it's to keep the wing nut from backing off. So, it makes sense to me that it belongs there. After all, it would be a Very Bad Thing® for that filter & housing/nut to fall down into the pump, right?
I told him to go ahead and cut it to change the filter and I'll take my chances that it is indeed there for the filter/wingnut.
So I have two questions.
#1) Did I do the right thing?
#2) Do I need to stress to them the importance of putting another wire back on?
My concern with having them put another one on is that neither this tech nor MF tech support know anything about it, so how do I know he'll even do it right? I can see problems ahead if he screws it up and that wire comes loose, dropping down in the pump or gears.
