One of the hose unions on the steering ram came loose on my machine, at first I thought it was a pipe gone, so I nursed it back to the shed (leaving a reasonable trail of oil where i had to make tightish turns) and looked at the pipe. I realised that the union was loose rather than the pipe split and tightened it. The steering lock movement to offside is fine, but the lock to nearside has lost some if it's range and has gone stiff (this is the side that the union feed came loose on). Maybe just loss of hydralic oil? I changed the main hydraulic filter and about 1/3 - 1/2 the hydraulic oil at the same time when I bought the macine about a year ago, so the main filter shouldn't have failed, and all the other hydraulics seem to be ok....
Any help or suggestions greatly appreciated chaps.....
