Posted by radara4077 on May 12, 2014 at 08:57:37 from (199.188.45.1):
Several years ago, Dad bought a circa 1970 International 140 to cultivate tobacco (back when tobacco was still prolific in my part of the country). He did extensive work on it, including replacing the radiator, installing a side-dresser, and adding a custom-designed mount for a spray and 25-gallon tank (I can take pictures if anyone's interested). It was a tobacco-plowing machine. You could plow at least 10 acres of tobacco a day while side-dressing and spraying all in one pass (more once it got big enough to plow in 2nd gear).
I was in my early teens when he bought it, and I did the bulk of the plowing until we stopped growing tobacco around 2006. So I spent a lot of time on that old tractor. One thing that always puzzled me about that 140 was the hydraulics would whine almost constantly. They worked fine, but would produce this annoyingly loud buzzing sound. All. Day. Long.
Sometimes, you'd be plowing along, and it would make this sucking sound (almost like sucking a milkshake through a straw). Once it did that, the hydraulics would run quiet for a while, then the buzzing would gradually return.
Since everything seemed to work fine, Dad was never too interested in finding out if that was normal or not. So I just kept on plowing. Today, we don't raise tobacco, but the 140 is perfect for cultivating the garden and our small patch of Sorghum. It still whines.
Does anyone know what could be causing this? Is it okay to leave it alone, or should we try to fix it? Is it an easy fix (after working on old tractors for the short amount of time I have, I've learned there's rarely such a thing)?
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