jcb 3c mk2 power steering pump cracked

[Billy123]

hi guys was digging out tree stumps and after a good few hours in hydraulic oil started leaking from around the power steering pump side, switched machine of as you do when you get a leak to investigate where its coming from due to access and visibility couldn't really see where its coming from exactly as its coming from under the pump they is no pipes that i can see that are under the pump so im guess the housing has cracked .
Any tips of removing the pump and any one know where to source one from.

jcb 3c mk2 fitted with a leyland 4/98 engine

Thanks

[Jeremy Rowland]

Billy I suspect that the housing may not be cracked; oil often runs down from another place, also I would suspect that there are seals in the pump body and one of those may have blown, until you remove the pump it will be hard to determine the exact cause of the leak, as always if I was running one of these machines my first port of call would be Simon Vicary of Vicary Plant spares (JCB specialist)
Let us know what you find, sadly I cant't advise you further as I've never worked on one.

Jeremy

[Billy123]

Hi Jeremy thanks for the advice.
Just didn’t know if it had anything to do with the timing side if things when I remove the pump.

[Jeremy Rowland]

Hi Jeremy thanks for the advice.
Just didn’t know if it had anything to do with the timing side if things when I remove the pump.

Sorry I can't help you there but others on here will know.

Jeremy