I love my old 340b. I'm a bit jealous though as mine doesn't have a cab. Giving mine an oil change and replacing the water pump this weekend. My power steering slowly leaks over time. I've heard it is usually caused by the seal on the pump housing /reservoir getting hard and cracking from age. The previous owner installed a skid steer quick attach on the loader along with a hydraulic diverter valve on the bucket curl circuit. I love moving logs with the root grapple hooked up. It's like playing with one of those claw machines you find in malls. I'm going to see if I can turn some new pins and bushings on my metal lathe to get some of the slop out of my loader control stick. When I first got the tractor it took me a long time to get use to how sloppy the loader controls are from being so worn out.
Very helpful, thanks for posting.
I love my old 340b. I'm a bit jealous though as mine doesn't have a cab. Giving mine an oil change and replacing the water pump this weekend. My power steering slowly leaks over time. I've heard it is usually caused by the seal on the pump housing /reservoir getting hard and cracking from age. The previous owner installed a skid steer quick attach on the loader along with a hydraulic diverter valve on the bucket curl circuit. I love moving logs with the root grapple hooked up. It's like playing with one of those claw machines you find in malls. I'm going to see if I can turn some new pins and bushings on my metal lathe to get some of the slop out of my loader control stick. When I first got the tractor it took me a long time to get use to how sloppy the loader controls are from being so worn out.