Meyer Snow Plow Repair — E-47, E-60 & E-Z Mount

Drive any gravel road in Story County and you’ll pass a Meyer plow that’s older than the truck carrying it. Farm country runs on old Meyers — E-47 pumps from the ’80s and ’90s, E-57s and E-60s behind them, hung on E-Z Mount frames that have outlived two pickups. Ames Hydraulics does meyer snow plow repair for exactly these units: the plows dealers shrug at, still earning their keep on farm lanes, church lots, and small-town routes all over Central Iowa.

Why Old Meyer Plows Are Worth Fixing

Here’s the honest math. A Meyer E-series pump is a simple, fully rebuildable electro-hydraulic unit — one motor, one pump, a couple of valves and coils. Parts are still widely available, aftermarket support is deep, and there’s no computer to obsolete it. A few hundred dollars of pump work will usually buy years of service, against thousands for a new plow and mount for an older truck that may not have a modern mount option at all. When a customer asks whether the old Meyer is worth it, our answer is usually yes — meyer snow plow repair is normally the cheapest path back to a working plow, and we’ll tell you plainly when it isn’t.

Meyer Snow Plow Repair Starts at the Pump

The E-47 (and its successors, the E-57 and E-60) is the heart of the plow, and it’s beautifully simple once you know the layout: the A valve (black wire) controls lowering and holds the blade up, the B valve (red wire) raises, and the C valve (green wire) angles right — angling left is the default path when the motor runs. Once you know which wire does what, most Meyer complaints point straight at one coil, one valve, or one O-ring. That simplicity is why we like these pumps: they’re diagnosable, and a proper Meyer plow pump rebuild on our bench — seals, filters, valves tested, motor gone through, pressure verified — turns a cranky 30-year-old unit back into a dependable one. E-47 repair is the single most common meyer snow plow repair job on our bench.

Won’t lift, or won’t stay up

The classic E-47 repair call. In order of likelihood: low fluid (Meyer specs the level about an inch and a half below the filler hole — overfilled hurts too), a plugged sump filter, a lazy B coil or valve, or a pump that can’t make relief pressure anymore. A blade that creeps back down points at the A valve not sealing, a leaking lift ram packing, or bypass inside the ram. We bench test rather than guess — ten minutes on the test stand tells us whether it’s a two-dollar O-ring or a worn pump section.

Won’t angle, or slams out of angle

If your Meyer plow won’t angle one direction, the usual suspects are the C coil or valve (for right), a stuck or debris-fouled valve (for left), or a quick-coupler that looks connected but isn’t passing flow — a Meyer specialty, especially with mismatched or worn couplers. A blade that won’t *hold* angle when it clips a frozen bank is usually the crossover relief circuit doing its job too eagerly because it’s worn or stuck. Angle cylinders that weep or drift get resealed and pressure tested in the same cylinder room as everything else we rebuild — see hydraulic cylinder rebuild.

The freeze-up: water in the pump

The number-one killer of Meyer pumps in Iowa isn’t wear — it’s water. These reservoirs breathe, condensation collects, and the E-series is famously intolerant of it: the first single-digit night, that water freezes in a valve or passage and the plow simply stops. If your Meyer works fine in October and dies in the first real cold snap, that’s the signature. The cure is an annual flush with proper low-temperature plow fluid, and it’s the cheapest item on this whole page. We do it with every Meyer that crosses the bench.

Mounts, sectors, and moldboards

E-Z Mount frames, sector assemblies, and A-frames on 30-year-old plows have usually been welded before — sometimes well, sometimes with a farm fence bead that’s cracking around the edges. We gouge out the old repairs, weld them properly, and reinforce the known cracking points, the same structural standard as all our welding and fabrication work. Worn king bolts, pivot pins, and trip springs get replaced while the plow’s apart.

The Off-Season Rule Applies Double to Old Plows

Every plow should be fixed in summer, but an aging Meyer especially. These units telegraph their failures — the lift got slow last February, the angle needed two stabs at the switch, the fluid looked like coffee with cream. Those are warnings, and warnings ignored until the first blizzard become emergencies in the worst week of the year to have one. Bring us the plow now and meyer snow plow repair is a scheduled bench job with parts on the shelf; bring it in January and you’re in line with everyone else.

If you run a mixed fleet, our snow plow repair hub covers every brand we service — Meyer expertise just happens to run deep here because Central Iowa keeps its equipment.

Bring Us the Old Iron

Free pickup and delivery within 60 miles of Ames means that E-47 can come off the farm truck and onto our bench without you burning a morning. Text a photo of the pump and a description of what it’s doing to 515-292-2599 — most meyer snow plow repair quotes happen right from your phone. Ames Hydraulics · 210 Freel Dr, Ames, IA 50010 · Mon–Fri 7AM–5PM.

That old Meyer has pushed a lot of snow. With honest meyer snow plow repair, it isn’t done yet.