After installing the pair of front "D" rings yesterday, I drove the BX 2370 around the driveway.
Hot laps...
It's the first time there wasn't snow & ice everywhere.
I still have snow piles where I stacked it with the BX 25 FEL, otherwise it is melted away.
I am certain that I know now why the BX 2370 was traded in.
When fully hot, a decent dribble of hydraulic oil from above and forward of the right rear axle.
Only with the engine running, so the leak is likely on the pressure side.
Sigh, no room to see anything or do anything without a major tractor "explosion" so I did it today.
The steel hard lines on the right side of the transaxle going to the loader valve, the 90 degree elbows
and the fittings that screw into the block that bolts to the side of the transaxle.
I verified (could plainly see the leakage) before disassembling the hard lines tubing nuts.
Looks like less than $30 in parts, and while it's all apart, I will do several other items I noticed.
The owner is a perfectionist with machinery, and so is the mechanic.
The mechanic may do the work for a few beers.
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