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Today's FLU useage was to place a 20-foot culvert. Yes, it could've been done with a tractor, but using the HMMH is more precise. And more fun. If the weather cooperates, tomorrow's task will be to get a SEE into the ditch to dig it out. That'll be a fight against gravity, laterally. And literally.

Not having the special tool, I've simply used a hair dryer to soften up the plastic a bit, then push it in place.

Welcome, Quickster. And I hope that by "Replace", you mean with something useful. Besides, the actual headlights are pretty useless no matter what you put in there since the loader covers most of them.

I've never had the front system get hot, either. Heck, I can barely get the rear one warm enough to turn on the fans. Except with the snow blower, which is constant, full power. Then again, I rarely use the loader. My guess would be a restriction of some sort, somewhere. Assuming that the fluid...

Bel-Metric has everything you need, and then some. Ask for Matt. He's the guy with not only the hardware, but also Unimog knowledge.

That you lost power steering and the front hydraulics is fairly obvious without the belts, but why the heck did the belts come off??? If you were in something deep enough to derail the belts, then the already leak prone drain valves on the air tanks were likely disturbed, and there went your air...

There's always the option of using a simple Volt meter (or even a test light) to confirm that things are still wired as intended, just in case.

I looked for the front and rear filters initially, and found them to be painfully expensive. Thankfully, once I pulled one out I realized that there's no reason to replace them, just treat them to a simple cleaning - if even that is necessary. Never did see even a spec of dirt on any of them, so...

Thanks, FarmMOG. And glad that it all works well now.

Hmm. I recall seeing them referred to as check valves elsewhere, and I think I've seen the arrow on mine, although stamped, not painted. Do you have a part number handy for your old one? It'd be interesting to see if it matches anything I have. By the way, my loaders' valves are plumbed...

If it was installed backwards, which it sounds like, did you try turning the check valve around?

Alright, be that way.

Welcome to the group, IdahoFLUzer. And congratulations on the relatively trouble free operation.

This bucket is the real thing, found it for $400 about three hours away. Half price of the aftermarket stuff on eBay, and in great shape. I needed a 12-incher, and it's more or less permanent on the Winter SEE now. But the Summer SEE definitely keeps its 24-inch bucket. If I could only have...

Ah, never thought of that little detail. Mine probably works, but is useless as the pump doesn't have the correct parts to make the vacuum usable. Plan A was to hook it directly to the modulator, so that's what I'll try. While my 1008 is nearly always in First gear anyway, it hasn't bothered me...

Another few hundred feet of ditch created. Not very rewarding when using the 12-inch bucket, by the way. The front of it tends to fill up, leaving the rear of it empty. And that's in addition to only having the ability to get half the load of the stock bucket in the first place. Oh well, it...

Or to get the air out of the system, maybe?

Looks like I'm the truly lucky one here, so far. Got my low mileage, rust (and almost dent) free M1008 for free. Still not sure why my friend thought I should have it, but he delivered it and I wasn't about to say no. Sure, it had crappy tires and no side windows, but that was easy to fix. Been...

I've done the mechanical tank cleansing (although it wasn't for rust) using chain, and it's no fun. For rust I'd use N-Terpinal, Evapo-Rust, or something similar. If one is really lazy, fill the whole tank. Otherwise, with the tank removed, I'd put enough in to cover one flat section at a time...

It's like black sand in this case. Whether it's asphaltene or bacteria I don't know, but I've cleaned it out best I could - without removing the tank - and BioBor seems to have helped. Or so I thought. This was the first hiccup in quite a while. This is the tank in which the lower 25% looked...