Recent content by smelt240

So, I could lift the cab and trace what I hope is a frozen cable to find the what I hope is a nice free-moving valve, I was hoping maybe someone here would have a picture of the actual valve and it's location. I should have known when I bought the machine with 'the little plastic knob thingie'...

Woohoo indeed! Haha, I should have mentioned that my "emergency" hydraulic release is frozen up. Looking into that issue one of today's little side jobs...

So, a hour's time and dish soap were the key... It finally got started into the little slot, and that allowed me to use a rounded car interior tool to push the seal around the glass enough to get things going... Having a helper kneeling in the seat backwards is a big help here as well. Can't be...

Hey all, I did it this time. My battery terminal was loose, and it popped off, mid-dig in a loam pile. Lift arms halfway up, no phone in my pocket, and nobody around. Knowing I was about to REALLY screw up, I popped the egress glass out. Oh, it came out SO easy... I climbed out, fixed the...

In my limited experience with these machines, low battery voltage can wreak havoc on them. My old 2013 318D had serious cold start issues, that were solved by simply unhooking the battery cable when not in use. I ended up installing a battery tender, and those issues seemed to disappear, along...

On the 318 series JD's I've ran there is a roller/ rocker thumb switch on the right handle that operates the aux function. Roll it forward to close, back to open the grapple. There is a trigger on that handle that "locks" the function on, for something like a snowblower... The switch on the...