I used to fill mine almost full as well. I did have a disaster a few years ago. I borrowed a cultipacker from a friend to put in some alfalfa and I didn't have a vent on my belly pump on an M. I went to the trouble of filling the reservoir full because the cultipacker was so heavy. I went to my garden to try it out and when I dropped it, there was a loud pop. I hit the clutch and saw oil running out from under the tractor. I unhooked the cultipacker and tried to drive it to the barn. It wouldn't move. Got another M and towed the broke tractor away and planted the hay.
Pulling the belly pump I found it had ruptured from the pressure from the cultipacker going down and not having a vent. The front of the case split horizontally and moved forward hitting the pressure plate and breaking all three ears off the pressure plate.
I put in an old pressure plate and clutch, and robbed a belly pump from an old MD. I got everything together in a few days of spare time and took it for a test spin. It always feels so good to get something going again. About 1/4 mile from the house, in road gear, it slowed and then stopped. I towed it back to the house and could only turn it over one way with a big screwdriver. After several tries it won't turn at all. We think the side load on the flywheel busted the crank in the rear main and now it is bound up with thrust both ways. It's been ten years and the tractor is still waiting for a teardown.
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