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Message: <blockquote data-quote="mmsllc" data-source="post: 91748" data-attributes="member: 13117"><p>That is unfortunate. It does sound like a lot of water is getting in somewhere near the top of the tank since you said that as you added fluid, it all came back out. I could only imagine that if there was a hole in the hydraulic tanks filler neck, the you would be seeing a mess inside of the machine as the water started to displace the hydraulic oil. If that is not the case, maybe someone did mess with your machine. Either way, I would drain it out for sure & top it off with fresh fluid. Keep in mind that getting all of the water out will be very close to impossible. While I rebuilt a hydraulic lift cylinder on my #753, we found some water contaminated oil draining out of the barrel once we had everything opened up. What I am getting at is we have been topping off the hyd system for quite some time now (because of the seal leakage), so with all of that fresh hyd. fluid, where did that water come from & why did it not work itself back into the hyd. system? I think the simple answer is what I was saying earlier, getting all of the water out will prove to be expensive no matter how you try to do it.</p></blockquote><p></p>