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Don't know if this will be of any help this late in the game but my Thomas has two petcocks on the inside wall that holds the hydraulic reservoir. You open the upper petcock and add hydraulic fluid through the fill cap on the top until fluid can be seen flowing out the upper petcock. Then...

Old thread but the CB on my Thomas is on the lower right side of the engine as viewed from the back.

I have a T133 also and when it'smoving it could wake the dead. When it's standing still everything lifts and tilts fine with very little noise but as soon as you touch those sticks you'd better have earplugs. If you don't mind my asking what engine did you put in? Hey Tazza... how you been?

Sorry for the long delay... I haven't been here for a while. I have a T133... I've had it for over 20 years and the thing is a tank. Don't look for any fancy bells and whistles, there aren't any... but if you're looking for a good strong basic machine the T133 is great. If you love digging...

My Thomas T133 has had neutral creep since the day I got it. The mechanism for returning to neutral in my Thomas is for the birds so I don't even bother setting it anymore. The neutral position is attained by two coil springs that alternately go into tension with the motion (forward or back)...

I'm one of the dummies who let water get in through the exhaust (you're right... I was a dummy hahaha) and after 3 years of abuse from rain and the odd nesting rodent, my pistons were stuck tight. (bTw... I found acorns behind the valves). Before I layed-out $3000+ USD for a new (rebuilt)...

I bought a cheap Lincoln 100 amp 120 volt MIG welder (without the gas) and using cored wire I just started welding with it. I had never before welded anything and from my experience I'd say any rank novice can pickup a MIG welder and be making reasonably strong welds in under an hour. They may...

It's number 4 on a very long list... 1. Paint and reassemble the backhoe. 2. Paint the loader and trailer. 3. New tires. 4. Replace rear window. . . . 468 New muffler.

Thank you both for your sound (excuse the pun) advice... now if I could only see out the back window...

1986 Thomas T133 with Kubota V1902 diesel engine. The exhaust pipe sticks straight up from the exhaust manifold and has a cylinder type muffler (looks like an old steam horn) that is nothing more than a 5“ diameter cylinder with several plates (baffles) that divert the exhaust flow out...

Sounds like an air-lock behind the thermostat. Look around for a bleeder valve. If there is none then you might try to loosen the thermostat housing just enough to let the air escape. Loosening the hose won't do it... the air must be bled from the block side of the thermostat. Also... check...

Please forgive the diversion but I'm curious... I have a 250' long (blacktop) driveway that I plow (well..push and dump) with my regular 4' bucket and it takes me all of 10 minutes to do the entire driveway in all but the deepest snow, which in my area is seldom more that 2 feet deep. Would a...

I just slapped a heavy chain on mine and dragged it with my 4wd Pathfinder. It only moved a few feet per minute, and sometimes I was just dragging the wheels, but I did manage to get it to the shop about 300 feet away.

Fluke!... nice meter. bTw... here's a good test to determine if dealers are charging too much for service. Open up a service center next to them and see if you can turn a profit by charging less than they charge. If the asnwer is no, then they aren't charging too much.

Don't bother measuring voltage across an ammeter using a standard voltmeter... it will read zero on most low-end voltmeters but in actuality will be a few millivolts. Think of an ammeter as a fuel flow meter for electricity. An ammeter measures how much electrical energy (not voltage) is...