I finally got the rest of the kits to rebuild the last leaking rams on my backhoe, put everything back together this morning, fill it up with hydrualic fluid and start working the rams to fill'em up.

Seems the pressure was bypassing the old packings in the swing-arms before, and now with all that pressure staying in the lines and not bypassing through, I blew a hose and dumped another gallon or two of hydrualic fluid on the driveway.

Good thing the sun is out these days to evaporate it.

So close to being done, yet $$ and more time away...

 

I vow it will be done today

Got a new hose made and installed and am taking a Beer Break before I start maknig a few bushings.

Gonna be digging ditches tomorrow!

 

Make that about 5-1/2 gallons of fluid that spewed out...just gotta keep the record straight

Got her all buttoned up, put the bucket on and will steam her offf tomorrow (as well as all the oil on the driveway...least I don't have to worry about weeds growing in the cracks this summer )

 

Sounds like a good day Mike. I have a really bad cold and am finally getting over it. Val and I took the truck to Woodland to see some friends. It was nice to get it out and on the highway.

 

EPA is on the way over to check out the toxic spill...

 

Ya think?

Gotta fire up the steam cleaner and clear a path

 

Yeah, you don't want them EPA guys tracking hydro fluid on your carpet on the way up the walk, when they deliver the fine...

 

My luck, they'd slip and sue me

I did get it all cleaned up today, what didn't soak up or evaporate (hyraulic fluid evaporates real well) I steamed away, another day or two and you'd never know it.

 

As DOW chemical used to say. The solution to pollution is dilution.

 

I could tell you some stories...man, back as a kid when we'd change oil, we would just dig a hole out back and pour it in, when stuff piled up too much, we would dig a hole and bury it.

Years later after the Hippie revolution, my dad got concerend about it, since he was on well water and the well was only 30-35 foot deep. he had his water tested every year for many, many years.

Everytime it was tested, the reports came back with a comparison to "bottled" water, and his was just as good in all cases, and better in some.

Sand has heck of a way to naturally filter stuff, or we'd probably never have leech lines.

 

My bro-in-law always saved his drain oil to spread on the dirt driveway to keep the dust down. I tried to tell him that it's not exactly the same oil that's used for that and after being run in an engine it has heavy metals and other contaminants in it, but he'd never listen...