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Read articles →This one's about a specific nuisance: bucket play or 'floppy bucket' on a Yanmar YT235, which the owner says affects this size class across all brands. He demonstrates the cylinder movement up close, explains how it ruins back-dragging, and shows a real fix, curling and dumping an empty bucket at 1800-2000 RPM to burp trapped air from the cylinder. Useful for owners noticing the same slop.
An owner-operator on his own property sharing a practical troubleshooting tip he found and tested himself, not a dealer or expert hydraulics source.
The owner says it is air trapped in the cylinder, not a leak or control valve problem, and the dealership confirmed cylinders and system show no leaks.
Raise RPMs to about 1,800 to 2,000 with an empty bucket, then curl and dump it about three times to burp the trapped air out of the cylinder.
When the bucket is lowered to back drag, the cylinder slop lets the front pick up and the back drag, scraping and leaving more ruts instead of a flat spot.
The owner says it affects this 35 horsepower size category across all brands, not just his tractor, though no one seems to permanently fix it.
