LowBoy
Senior Member
- Joined
- Nov 23, 2006
- Messages
- 1,149
- Location
- Southern Vt. on the Mass./NH borders
- Occupation
- Owner, Iron Mountain Iron & Equipment (Transport)
I recently acquired a really pristine 450 JD track loader from an estate sale. It had an easy life in the underground utility cable installation industry. Never loaded trucks or dug dirt, just had a cable plow attached to the rear and carried a reel of cable on a custom built setup in the bucket.
It sat for a few years and in doing so a few of the steel hardlines from the valve body down were weak, so they were replaced. Then they previous owners went to move something with it and popped a main pressure line underneath it, that empties the transmission of 5 gallons in 2 minutes.
I have it home up on blocks, getting ready to drop the bellypan so I can do the repair. Looking for the veteran JD guys advice here, the bellypan on this 450 seems to have a set of hinges in the front, so I'm thinking that by removing the 3 bolts out back by the drawbar, and I think 4 on each side forward of the sectioned part, that it'll swing down and I will gain the access I need to fix that leak...? Must be that big pressure line I can almost touch up in there's sprung a leak...
It sat for a few years and in doing so a few of the steel hardlines from the valve body down were weak, so they were replaced. Then they previous owners went to move something with it and popped a main pressure line underneath it, that empties the transmission of 5 gallons in 2 minutes.
I have it home up on blocks, getting ready to drop the bellypan so I can do the repair. Looking for the veteran JD guys advice here, the bellypan on this 450 seems to have a set of hinges in the front, so I'm thinking that by removing the 3 bolts out back by the drawbar, and I think 4 on each side forward of the sectioned part, that it'll swing down and I will gain the access I need to fix that leak...? Must be that big pressure line I can almost touch up in there's sprung a leak...