Chuck, Based on your photo of your tractor's dash, I don't see the Multi-Power (MP) lever on the dash. The small shift lever on the transmission is just low or high range for the trans. MP is sort of an automatic transmission and unless it was hidden you don't have that. If your tractor had MP you should have a small shift on the left side of your dash marked MP with high or low positions. The front bracket was altered by an extension out in front of the tractor to mount the pump. Looks like it was done in a good manner. I doubt if the pump was a real MF pump so anything that fits the mount may work. Sitting on the seat there should be a plate on top of the transmission behind your shifters next to your right knee that is about 3 to 4 inches square. A switch or hydralic valve can be installed here. The switch would be a square box with a small lever around the size of a cigarette that allows you to switch to three point hitch or loader. If a valve is mounted there the lever would stick up kind of between your legs and would be about the size of the small transmission shifter. Since you had a front pump mounted I don't think you would have this kind of valve on your tractor. Just to the left of your small shifter on the trans is the transmission fill plug. Removing it leaves a hole about the size of a silver dollar or a little larger. The front pump may be leaking because of excess weight the loader puts on the frontend and power steering pump. If you think you will want the loader and the things it can do it may be worth an e-mail to Big Dean to see if a heavier pump could be used. Other wise when ever you do some serious loader work you may blow the steering seals. Yes, I am trying to locate such a loader within 100 to 150 miles of Tupelo, MS in Northeast Ms. I would certainly be interested but I fear that you are too far away.
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