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<p>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....<br>
Cecil<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 12/14/2020 3:54 PM, Mike M wrote:<br>
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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.<br>
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Mike M<br>
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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.<br>
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Thanks,<br>
Mike M<br>
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PS - a friend of mine owns a heating and cooling business, and
he commonly uses both tape, then paste on all his gas
connections.<br>
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<p>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. <br>
Cecil<br>
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<div dir="ltr">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
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8:09 AM Cecil Bearden <<a
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rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">With the chinese
fittings we are stuck with now, teflon tape is <br>
necessary. I use a brand called Blue Monster for
Hydraulics. I used <br>
paste for years as tape was not recommended for
hydraulics. It got to <br>
where paste would still leak. The threads were bad
enough to need tape...<br>
Cecil<br>
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On 12/14/2020 2:59 AM, Tom Martin wrote:<br>
> Accepted practice is to start wrapping the fitting,
2 x threads from<br>
> the end of the fitting, that will preclude tape
contamination of the fluid.<br>
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> Tom<br>
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>> On 14 December 2020 at 19:48 Mike M <<a
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>> Hi all, was wondering if was OK to use Teflon
tape on a hydraulic fitting?<br>
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