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| I have a LS180 that a neighbor brought me to repair a few months ago that had a bad hydraulic leak.
After inspecting it we found that the temperature sensor in the bottom of the hydraulic tank had come out, its in a tough spot to see well, but it felt like the threads were ok. I reinstalled it and used a little blue loctite to make sure it didn't back out again. I cleaned the tank breather out when we refilled it with oil, it didn't seem too dirty, but I wondered if the tank had been pressurized and blew the sensor out.
After running it for ~40hrs or so its back here with the same leak. The sensor is blown out again, Im guessing the plastic threads of the tank aren't enough to hold the sensor in any longer. New tanks aren't available for this machine any longer, and used ones seem hard to come across.
Wondering if there is a good epoxy that would work to hold the sensor in? I tried to fix a small crack on a Deere skid steer tank a few years ago with JB weld and it failed pretty quickly.
Ive ordered a new breather for it, to hopefully eliminate any sort of pressurizing that may be happening. | |
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NH LS180 Hydraulic tank repair
