Hi everyone! I have a massey 1526 compact hydro. Last winter I was plowing my parents driveway when the loader suddenly jammed down and would not raise.  I ended up breaking the joystick trying to raise it. That sucked. I got a new lever and after replacing it, it worked again. I later found out that the last owner also broke one. 

Now to last week, when a neighbor borrowed the tractor. The loader got stuck down again. It's been there all week til my dad came up with the idea to switch the lines that tilt the bucket with the ones that raise and lower the loader. I forgot to mention, in all cases, the bucket will still tilt. 

We did that and it worked. Kind of... I assumed after doing this that pushing the stick side to side would raise and lower the loader. This was not the case. Side to side still tilted the bucket and raising and lowering was now working.  The problem was that it would not quit raising.  If I was not manipulating the stick it was raising to the max and continued to try raising once it maxed out. 

I drove the tractor home like that, fighting the loader the whole way. It was not far. I got home, parked it, switched the lines back, and the loader is frozen down again. The stick will not move up and down. I will remind you  it did move up and down when the lines were switched. 

Anyone have any idea what might be causing this? 

I will add one more thing. The backhoe attachment was on. I decided if I need to get this thing worked on it doesn't need to be on, but removing it, the hydraulics were much slower than they should be. Did I mess something up switching these lines for 15 minutes? 

Any input would be appreciated.  Sorry for the long rambling post. 

Massey 1526 loader issues