Recent content by jdg2259

hey guys sorry for the delay... I ended up taking the buggy to a friend of mines neighbor who is a service tech for Caterpillar and he worked on it as he could in the evenings after he got off work. Long story short the pump was rebuilt and the dump bed works as it should. I didn't really get...

Well it appears to be an issue with the valve. As we were changing the hydraulic res. box out we checked to make sure fluid was coming from the pump (and it is). Also, now that we have good fluid in the lines the box will stay up all night and nothing appears to be leaking. Can the valve be...

hey Guys, sorry for the delay... the hydraulic res. will be here tomorrow but I did confirm the lever is working and I raised the bucket up while in float and kept it there for 4-5 minutes, then I took lever out of float and the box came down to about 6 inches off the frame... it didn't go all...

thank you all for the replies... a ton of great info. So last night I ended up hearing from the guy a bought it from (friend of a friend now - I realized where I stand) and found out he used the hydraulics to run a log splitter and said one day it got hot and fluid started leaking from the res...

bczoom and bordercollie, thank you for the kind words and for taking the time to read my post... According to the guy I bought this machine from he only used Kubota filters and fluids. I have a call into him to see when the last time was he changed the filters and fluids. If I remember...

Hello, I've been searching through the forum for a similar issue to mine without luck thus far, but I have learned a lot about these machines and feel a lot better after reading through this forum. I recently bought a 2006 rtv 900 from a friend and knew the dump bed was not working. I didn't...