snow plow help???
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snow plow help???
ik your all truck guys but i gotta old western plow on my beast it finally snowed a goof 6 inches here i plowed 3 drives and it wont raise the blade now! its bitterly cold here lik 16 below and i tlkd to a snow plow repair shop and he told me its proly just frozen becasue the motor still runs and theres no fluid on the hydrolic lines ..... any advice??????
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ik your all truck guys but i gotta old western plow on my beast it finally snowed a goof 6 inches here i plowed 3 drives and it wont raise the blade now! its bitterly cold here lik 16 below and i tlkd to a snow plow repair shop and he told me its proly just frozen becasue the motor still runs and theres no fluid on the hydrolic lines ..... any advice??????
2. Make sure the pump is working when the motor is.
Have you tried putting some heat to it to see if it will work, or attempt to.
3. Does it have a filter, may be plugged
4. Considering the conditions, you may have some water in the system. If it is cold enough, I've seen chunks of ice work through systems and plug things up. May be blocking pump inlet or reservoir outlet. Remove the lines at pump and reservoir. May drain and refill with new fluid
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Just my 2 cents here. If you haven't changed the hydro fluid yet this year do it before the next snow. I have plowed with Western's for 15 yrs and RCrawler is dead on on the possibility of ice/moisture in the lines. Always change your fluid yearly!
I was cleaning up drifts in parking lots this morning at -18 and had no problem.
If this is your first year plowing you may not know you should keep spare parts in the truck cause at 3 am you may need them.
My list for old plows: a spring, motor relay, mounting pins a large and a small as well as locking pins to go with, hydralic line, 2 quarts of hydro fluid, extra bolt and nut for your lift chain, a motor if you have the money $120 and a pump. Not trying to be preachey
but I have replaced them all in the middle of the night. Everyone on my crew carries
these back ups. Hand tools also of course. If you buy one thing buy mounting pins and locking pins and keep a jack in the truck in case you need to jack it up and short chain it and limp on home. Good Luck!!
I was cleaning up drifts in parking lots this morning at -18 and had no problem.
If this is your first year plowing you may not know you should keep spare parts in the truck cause at 3 am you may need them.
My list for old plows: a spring, motor relay, mounting pins a large and a small as well as locking pins to go with, hydralic line, 2 quarts of hydro fluid, extra bolt and nut for your lift chain, a motor if you have the money $120 and a pump. Not trying to be preachey
but I have replaced them all in the middle of the night. Everyone on my crew carries
these back ups. Hand tools also of course. If you buy one thing buy mounting pins and locking pins and keep a jack in the truck in case you need to jack it up and short chain it and limp on home. Good Luck!!
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definitely drain the pump, flush it out, and refill with good plow pump oil. don't use trans fluid, it will just foam up and freeze on you.
for people living in Georgia where it don't get cold, trans fluid is ok. but up north where it gets under 20º cold, you need to use the blue snow plow oil, and flush the pump yearly at the beginning of the plow season to get any condensation and contamination out of it.
for people living in Georgia where it don't get cold, trans fluid is ok. but up north where it gets under 20º cold, you need to use the blue snow plow oil, and flush the pump yearly at the beginning of the plow season to get any condensation and contamination out of it.
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