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Read articles →This is a hands-on 50-hour hydraulic fluid and filter change on a 1025R, done by an owner instead of waiting over a month for dealer service. It walks through the drain plug, cleaning the magnet, and finding paint/plastic debris in the fluid housing, plus a candid mistake: leaving the backhoe on made hose access much harder. Useful for owners doing their own service, with a clear lesson to remove the backhoe first.
Posted by an owner-operator documenting a DIY service on their own machine, including mistakes made along the way.
Drain the fluid, pull and clean the magnet, replace the filters, refill fluid, then check the dipstick before and after running the tractor.
Yes, the video shows leaving the backhoe on made accessing the rubber tube and hose extremely time consuming and harder than needed.
He found paint or plastic debris and gunk in the bottom of the fluid housing, which he cleaned out with a paper towel and screwdriver.
It depends, some years call for low viscosity fluid and some do not, so check your dipstick and owner's manual to confirm.
