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Thanks gents. I guess either problem would involve propping it up and opening the casing? In either case, is it serious or a cause for immediate action? As a newbie, I don't know too much about their maintenance.

The Mustang 2060 has developed a rattle on the left hand side of late. It doesn't seem to have arrested the movement of the machine either forwards or in reverse and the rattle / noise appears to be more pronounced at lower speeds. Any ideas what could be wrong? The chain case is the first port...

Thanks for replying. Can these bulbs / switches be replaced easily? Does anyone have an electronic copy of the schematic? May have a look at these this evening...

Cold isn't a problem as it isn't too bad round here. To restate the problem, for a while after starting the engine, I have no hydraulic power - it usually takes nearly 10 minutes for it to come on. Both rocker switches should show green when working normally and red when switched to 'safe mode'...

Thanks for the replies, gents. The momentary ceasing of function seems to have abated now. However, yet another problem seems to have arisen :-( Upon startup, normally both the arm lock switch and brake switches should show green, indicating that the machine is safe to use. However the latter...

Another little glitch with this one; another person was using it in my absence and cut the hydraulic hoses from the machine to the front grab, thus losing some hydraulic oil. Anyway, repaired the hoses and put back in some oil. However, the machine is a little slow to get hydraulic function...

Thanks again guys. Maybe it's just lack of grease, although I have only put up c. 20 hours on it thus far and it was fully greased when it arrived. No, engine revs doesn't seem to matter - however, it only seemed to occur after some time working, i.e. not at the start when cold. Anyway, will...

2060 is going fine and doing all that is asked of it. However, it developed a 'noise' today when tilting the bucket forwards - rather scraping, grating sound which seems to come from the right-hand side of the machine and only when tilting. Performance, response, power etc. not affected. Nothing...

Cheers guys, appreciated.

Thinking of getting a second hand Mustang for putting in silage blocks and general farm work, nothing too heavy. What models should I be looking at? Was thinking of 2040 (2044), 2050 (2054) or a 2060. Are these heavy enough for my purposes? What questions shuold I ask a vendor if looking at a...