[AT] stiff tractor day

[Jim and Lyn Evans]

The hydraulic oil will be relatively thick at that low temperature, making
it nearly impossible to go through the orifices in all the valves.  Old,
dirty oil with water in it doesn't help things.  You should change the oil
the next time the weather is decent.  Using the new hydraulic oils like JD
Hygard or whatever Case NH uses should improve things.

Jim
 

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Subject: Re: [AT] stiff tractor day

I remember sometime in the late 1960s that we had problems with heating oil
thickening up during a particularly nasty cold spell up in Northeast Ohio.
Temperatures went down between 15 and 20 below and stayed there for a while.
We had tanks of No. 1 heating oil standing outdoors that we used to carry
around in cans to fill space heaters throughout the farm buildings.

I think there was an additive you could use. Fortunately, we had enough oil
stored indoors that it warmed up again before we got into trouble.

And about 15 years ago, I was living in Boston, Mass., during a cold winter
when the power steering in my CJ-5 Jeep went goofy. The wheel would vibrate
and the system would groan as if the steering was tearing itself apart.
Turned out I had ice crystals in the power steering fluid.

Bob Seith
1953 Farmall Cub


charlie hill wrote:

> Ralph,
>
> Seems to me that I heard in the news a few years ago that it was so 
> cold somewhere in the Western US that people's fuel was gelling and 
> their furnaces wouldn't run.  I guess if it can get so cold that 
> diesel fuel or kerosene won't flow that hydraulic oil wouldn't have 
> much of a chance.
>
>

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