Have I committed another Oob-Oob?

[Larry in IN]

I have the TC [my version of] rebuilt, reinstalled on the Cub, and fixed all the errors that I have caught so far.

After finding the open circuit in the hot wire to the ignition and new points, etc. without removing the distributor [didn't know my fingers could bend those ways] it runs smoothly.
As I first asked the hydraulis to lift, it did twice; after that, nothing for several minutes of moving the lever back and forth.
Anybody have any idea what I am missing? How many cycles should it take to prime the system and then work the air out?

Hopr there is a simple, logical answer.

Thanks!

[Rick Prentice]

Hi Larry. After you cycled the system a couple times, did you also add more fluid? Make sure the t/c piston is re-tracted(in all the way), remove your big plug and add more fluid to the bottom of the threads, install the plug loose so nothing dumps out at you, and cycle the system again. Repeat this process till the air is out. Hope this helps, the experts will be here shortly. Rick

[John *.?-!.* cub owner]

If you also rebuilt the pump, did you put the lock tab back on and bend it over the nut on the pump shaft. i have known the nut and drive gear to come off when people forgot this.

[Festus]

Larry, I don't know the answer to your question, but I thought it was timed perfectly. I was awaiting the answers because mine did the same thing. After getting everything back together, I bled the system the first time I started the tractor. It worked great, so I topped it off with fluid and have used it several times in the past few weeks. Then, on Sunday, I mounted the cultivators, and the lift would not even begin to budge them. Nothing! So I checked fluid level - it was fine. I tried to bleed the system again - still nothing. I borrowed a gauge to check pump pressure and trouble-shoot the system but before I installed the gauge yesterday, I tried it and the lift worked just as it should! I believe it is another case of the CG's (Cub Gremlins - they come by to bother me from time to time)

Festus