Insane Hydraulics
Bold and audacious blog about fluid power
This charge pump is from a Sauer Danfoss series 90 special closed loop pump used in a CLAAS harvester, and, as you can see, it got literally welded into one single piece by the friction heat. The initial cause of this failure was extreme oil overheating caused by malfunction of the thermal by-pass of the cooling system.
Read this article if you want to know more about the valve that caused this malfuction and the peculiarities of such transmissions.