[AT] Teflon tape hydraulic system??

[Cecil Bearden]

MTZ/Belarus put a short cable to release the front hood latch on the 
side of my new 1220.4  The cable is about 1ft long, but it got moisture 
on the first snowfall 2 years ago, and I ended up tearing it out to get 
the hood up to jump the battery when the solid state charger went bad.  
It has a rubber bungee cord for a hood latch now.  It works just fine 
too.   Ice doesn't bother it one bit... If they wanted as much for the 
hood latch as they did for the front headlights ($275) I don't need 
it...  I only needed the plastic covers for the headlights.   The lights 
were not LED either...The covers blew off in one of our storms....
Cecil

On 12/14/2020 3:54 PM, Mike M wrote:
> Well nothing is ever easy, also noticed at some point I broke off the 
> hood latch release which Mahindra foolishly located low on the frame 
> behind the front tire where it can catch on all sorts of things.  This 
> will be the second time I've had to replace this. I should look for a 
> more permanent fix.
>
> Mike M
>
> On 12/14/2020 2:34 PM, Mike M wrote:
>> Thank you for all the advice regarding Teflon tape. This is on a 5 
>> year old Mahindra tractor, I've been impressed with the machine in 
>> general, but not the hoses or other rubber parts. I will probably try 
>> what Tom suggested and use a little, but stay well back from where it 
>> could migrate into the system. If that fails, I'll need to have a new 
>> hose made.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Mike M
>>
>> PS - a friend of mine owns a heating and cooling business, and he 
>> commonly uses both tape, then paste on all his gas connections.
>>
>> On 12/14/2020 11:26 AM, Cecil Bearden wrote:
>>>
>>> Bo: I always stuck to that teaching.  Even though in the early days 
>>> the loader manufacturers would supply a couple of rolls of teflon 
>>> tape with a new loader.  Wealways used paste, or the stick which was 
>>> a lot easier to use.   I used a lot of Rectorseal in the day.  Here 
>>> lately I bought a lot of fittings from Discount Hyd hose.com, ant 
>>> the fittings would leak no matter how much teflon paste or type of 
>>> paste, or tight I got the fitting.  I even used an impact wrench and 
>>> a vise to tighten the fittings on the hose..  So, I got to using the 
>>> tape and stopped having leaks.   A good friend worked 10 years for a 
>>> large Farm Eq dealer and he told me thay had to start using teflon 
>>> tape on all NPT fittings.
>>> Cecil
>>>
>>> On 12/14/2020 8:42 AM, Bo Hinch wrote:
>>>> I was in business for 25 years and I always told a new hire to 
>>>> NEVER use tape on a hyd. fitting . If you did and I found out , you 
>>>> were FIRED on the spot . A person would be surprised at what one 
>>>> little piece can cost a business or customer  in the long run .
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, Dec 14, 2020 at 8:09 AM Cecil Bearden <crbearden at copper.net 
>>>> <mailto:crbearden at copper.net>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>     With the chinese fittings we are stuck with now, teflon tape is
>>>>     necessary.  I use a brand called Blue Monster for Hydraulics.  
>>>>     I used
>>>>     paste for years as tape was not recommended for hydraulics. It
>>>>     got to
>>>>     where paste would still leak.  The threads were bad enough to
>>>>     need tape...
>>>>     Cecil
>>>>
>>>>     On 12/14/2020 2:59 AM, Tom Martin wrote:
>>>>     > Accepted practice is to start wrapping the fitting, 2 x
>>>>     threads from
>>>>     > the end of the fitting, that will preclude tape contamination
>>>>     of the fluid.
>>>>     >
>>>>     > Tom
>>>>     >
>>>>     >> On 14 December 2020 at 19:48 Mike M <meulenms at gmx.com
>>>>     <mailto:meulenms at gmx.com>> wrote:
>>>>     >>
>>>>     >>
>>>>     >> Hi all, was wondering if was OK to use Teflon tape on a
>>>>     hydraulic fitting?
>>>>     >>
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