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Faunsdale, AL | When have you changed the transmission filter? Have you seen any metal in the housing when changing it? Cut open a filter and looked for metal?
Reason I ask, our 4955 that we bought with a lot of hours on it, started hanging the solenoids for the 3 point hitch raise and lower. After a few of them replaced, we discovered it was making metal in the transmission sump, pump was putting it in filter housing. The final hole in the Swiss cheese was when the cone in the filter housing came out with an old filter and the guy changing it didn’t catch it. It wasn’t me…….. honest!
Got the filter cone back in and thought we were good to go, but pumping that metal got the trans pump eventually. That’s when we pulled the finals and discovered the brakes were the source. Turns out the brakes had no lining left and the sump screen had been cleaned enough times that it no longer had much brake stuff on it. Not enough to clog it so no signs other than the fine metal in filter housing. Knock on wood it’s been good for more than a decade after cleaning it all out and fixing the brakes!
Have seen another tractor that was getting metal in it and the powershift spools started to hang up. Don’t know that that one ever had any filter problems, but it got contamination into the trans control valve somehow. | |
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