Fixed the Hydraulic Pump Noise.

Now ideas where to get a new or good used filter? Give me some names of some tractor parts yard that are good to deal with. I'll do some calling tomorrow. I'll get to make a new gasket for the cover now!! That was fun the first time around =P

As for the filter, I'm not worrying asbout it for at least a week. I got a car to work on now =) =\

Why can't you just put a less aggressive filter in?

Dunno why you thought spending hours chopping up the tractor, running here there and everywhere looking for parts was "cheaper" than simply breaking down and buying the right part in the first place.

Anyways, it just seemed absolutely ridiculous to spend $92 on a brass screen soldered on a pipe, 25 or 30, even $50 would be more reasonable. I also wanted to make it easier to change the filter. In short, I had good intentions, but well you know, stuff doesnt always work out.

Once again, its nobody's fault, it is a learning experience, and if my posts help just one other person out, then it is worth it imho.

Overall, I am more happy then upset, now its just a matter of figuring what to do. For now she will sit without a filter, which is fine cause she doesnt get much use as it is now. I'll figure something out. Ideally if I could find a filter that would fit this assembly and was alot coarser rating, that would probably be fine.

In hindsight, I should have just bit the $92 bullet, cause now it seems about $130 bullet is about to hit me in the butt =P

I looked on ebay for a used filter, none, but there is about 4 or 5 people selling 300 and 350u parts, so I sent them a message asking if they had one. Maybe I'll get lucky, find one, and the guy wont know what its worth and ill get it for like $10. That would offset that bullet and just make it a BB =P. Still gotta pull the res cover tho, but I got enough material to make another gasket. Thing is, I wanted to get my pontiac in the garage to work on it, guess the old 300 will have to wait its turn tarped up outside =P

You have no idea how good of a feeling it is to have the pump not sounding like its going to break into a million pieces. So Now I got 2 of the 4 main worries addressed, hydraulic pump is fine, the rear end/tranny gears are fine and noted, now the engine and clutch will just have to run til they die =P Engine holds about 55lns of pressure and no real bad sounds, I'm gonna check timing and maybe lean it out a tad, then she should be good to go. Weird enough, since the 12v conversion, Seems I dont need to use the choke? Starts up within a few seconds of hitting the key. That might be why I need to lean it out a bit with all of the carbon black soot on my flapper and stuff.