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Go to your local parts store or fuel jobber and get a can of Tractor Fluid or your dealer and get OEM fluid. About 50 bucks a can but a lot cheaper than a hydraulic pump failure. Good Luck!
Go to your John Deere dealer and pay big bucks for their hydrostatic fluid or go almost anywhere else and buy a good quality hydraulic fluid.
Standing behind the tractor look below the seat and just below the bodywork and there is a small (1") removable cap with a tube leading downward.
In the hydraulic oil tank. Where that's located depends on which model of backhoe you have.
This all depends on which tractor you're on at the time. The older Fords 8N's - Jubilee's - etc. had a dip stick on the side of the transmission. A lot of the older International's - you needed to take a twig and stick it down the reservoir. Most have a top off hole. Meaning that you add fluid until it runs out of the top off hole. Then you put the plug in and the fill cover back on and it's full. Go to tractorshed.com for specific help on your model. The location of the hydraulic oil check depends on your make, model.
Check the hydraulic fluid. Hydraulic cylinder piston rubber washers to replace.
In general they leak hydraulic brake fluid when they go bad.
Under the seat.
you go behind the seat on top of stomp you unscrew that bolt an poure the correct amount in the housing until in runs out of the hole on the right side which has a set screw
Both! The gas engine would take oil then the log splitter that runs the hydraulics would take a specific hydraulic fluid. Its best to go by what the manufacture says
This is a very general question. I am familiar with hydraulic or "bottle" jacks, and I think this is what your question is about. Hydraulic jacks have a pump to force hydraulic fluid into a hydraulic cylinder, which forces it to extend. This action is what raises whatever load you place it under. The fluid is usually pretty specific to the jack. Go to your local hardware store and ask for hydraulic jack oil. I have seen people use transmission fluid in a pinch (way out on the farm, miles from the store).
You will want to use a tractor hydraulic grease or lubricant. For the bearings you will want to use a high temp oil and for all other parts a multi-purpose grease will work. It is best to go to the dealer and see the type that they recommend.