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I needed the machine up and running and no radiator flush around .
It took 7,5 liters of coolant to fill it up, so I think it should be reasonably clean now.

I did mine a few months ago. Don't forget to drain your rear axle when you get the 3 bolts of that hold the axle for the pto leaver

My Dexta ran a little hot this summer, doing work in the hay, and since I topped up the water a few times, I wasn't sure of how frost resistant it was. The coolant could do with a replace anyway - it was in there for a long time and looked brownish. To my surprise, nothing came out of the back tap. ...

All seals arrived and the lift went back on and ... it worked like I never experienced it: with very precise height control - nice :-D Putting the lift back on without an engine lift was not easy: I put it on with the paper seals and without the O-rings first, then wedged the lift up, aligned the pa...

Ah, I see you are based in Leeds - I was there a couple of days ago :-(. Shame I didn't notice this earlier - we could have had a good Dexta chat :-) Basically the whole control mechanism has to be taken out, apart from the Qualy control/position control lever. That can stay in with it's bracket. I'...

Thanks for the info Brian. I guess, seen the condition of the outlet filter, I'll take this one out as well and give it a good rinse :-) I noticed an error in the previous lay out picture of the lift cover screws. So I removed it, took a proper picture, redone the numbering and added the length of t...

I'll measure them up later this week and post the lengths - the cover is still of.

I wasn't aware that using a multigrade oil is ok.
Can't it cause seal leakage? Using the wrong oil really worries me.

Thanks a lot for your view Frank. You are probably right. The smell bothers me more then the liter oil :D I use SAE 20 HD in an ambient temperature of 25°C. The oil and filter is new. May be SAE 30 HD next time? I did some reading on glazed bores - it was new to me. I always thought bores should be ...

Hi all, I wonder what your experiences are with Dexta oil consumption. What can be considered normal for a 60's generation engine? My Dexta consumes about a liter on a day hard labour, say 6 hours pulling a 3m wide tedder with the temperature gauge on 175 and the RPM on 1800. There is nothing coming...

While waiting for the new gasket and filter, I thought I could share some pictures I took during my lift repair: the famous position control pin wear issue. https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-u4n8aZjc3ic/T_f0gU5mPHI/AAAAAAAACY8/mGl-ZcAsZWI/s640/2012-07-06%252015.22.56.jpg The lift cover https://lh3....