water in transmission

Jason Kozlowski · Jul 15, 2010

Does anybody know of a good way to get moisture out of a transmission? I drained one yesterday and probably got two gallons of water before I even saw oil. I changed the oil in another tractor three times and still saw no noticeable difference, and that one seemed to have less water in it. I was told to fill the transmission full of diesel, run it in circles, and then drain it. I never tried this, because I don't want to waste 20+ gal of diesel fuel. I just hate dumping new oil into water at $70 a pail. Does anybody have a better solution?

JF in MI · Jul 15, 2010

I had considerable water in my hydraulic system. I would run it to churn it up then drain it into three 5 gal buckets and let it sit for a couple of months (during off season). The water would settle out and I would pour the oil off the top and reuse it. Did this several times and now the system is water free.

Jim

old · Jul 15, 2010

Well in a case like that one with 2 gal. of water. Drain it till you start getting oil, then run it and work it so as to get the oil good and warm. Then drain it with it still good and warm. Doing it that way should have most of it not all the water mixed up in the oil so it will drain out with it. Another thing you can do before you run one like I said is to pour a bottle or two of heet in to the oil so as to help pick it up and suspend it in the oil

olgentdc · Jul 15, 2010

subject came up here last year ,, someone had a waterworm device (tampon similar )that captured water , Perhaps search Archivrs ... AND PLEASE REPOST INFO , WATER is a common problem in Modern automatic shift tractors , device worked like. pul out the string , wring it out and reuse ?,,.

Jason Kozlowski · Jul 15, 2010

I will search the archives, it seems that somebody should"ve come up with a time or effort saving solution for this problem. I may try the idea of letting the oil seperate from the water and then continue to use it to flush out the water. If nothing else that would be the cheap method, but definitly slow.

muleboss · Jul 15, 2010

Do you not wonder why or how the water got in there?

jd b puller · Jul 15, 2010

Yuk, I can't imagine re-using those things.

Jason Kozlowski · Jul 15, 2010

This is a 730 Case that I aquired last year, my guess is that it came through the shifters. Both shifter boots are like new, so something made the previous owner replace them. The other tractor I have with this problem, but less severe, is an 830 Case. That tractor sat inside, but unused for a long time, I think years of condensation caused it's moisture problem, plus, I've run that tractor enough to know nothing is leaking.

RoyIA · Jul 15, 2010

As said before let it sit awhile and drain the water off the bottom. If you drain the remainder and put it in a metal container and put a fire under it, you can boil the water out. I did this and you could tell when the water was gone by the color.

Jason Kozlowski · Jul 16, 2010

Boiling the oil would remove the water quicker, but my concern would be the heat. The oil can get warm in the transmission, but it doesn"t boil, so would boiling it break down the oil? If I"m just flushing it, It probably won"t matter, but If I decide I need to run it, I wouldn"t want to damage anything.

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