Recent content by TheOldHokie

How Can You Have Your Pudding If You Don't Eat Your Meat? Oral surgeon said soft diet for 3 days so I figured beef gravy was close enough.

Theres nothing special to look for. Typical things for a used tractor - hours, its clean, has service records, fluids look good, no dings or dents, options like loader third function, resr remotes, etc. Price is whatever you think is fair. Look at comps online - they will be on the high side...

AW46 is a plain monograde hydraulic oil with minimal additives. UDT is a multi-function multigrade oil with a lot of additionsl additives. They will mix fine but the additive package in the UDT will be diluted. Thats not going to be an issue in the excavator's dedicated hydraulic system but it...

Yes but it would be easier to understand your description if you stuck to just curl/dump or retract/extend Mixing in both had me doing mental gymnastics to follow your description :) Here is a simple way to test a double acting cylinder Fully retract the cylinder Remove the hose from base...

Is there another thread on this problem? Dan

So is IN and OUT relative to the loader valve or the tractor? :devilish: The ports on the loader valve should bs labeled. Connect the P port to A on the ourlet block Connect the BY (PB) port to B on the outlet Connect the T port to the plugged port on the right side of the outlet block Dan

@Bee-Positive has identified the place to hook in those THREE hoses. Make sure you use the correct fittings and get the individual hoses connected to the correct ports. The ports are BSPT. Dan

May need a little work to clean up that tapered bore to go with the welding. :unsure: Dan

I must say you have excellent communication skills and and full command of how a wrench works (y) Dan

Not really. I don't know their exact physical location but they are independent of the valve itself. But this missing linkage is potentially screwing up the normal operation of the valve so we cant be sure what its doing. Dsn

🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 Hydraulically locked is simple. Both ends of the cylinder are blocked and the fluid trapped in the cylinder prevents the piston from moving in either direction. This is an interesting situation. The missing linkage is affecting both draft and podition control. Difficukt to say how...

No - just the opposite. At the intermediate setting the 3pt control valve is in neutral (just like full down) but the lift cylinder is hydraulically locked in the raided position by the closed spool and two anti-drift poppet valves. Thats some of the hydraulic magic you mentioned in your...

I am struggling to see how a hydraulic problem is causing this. You have basically ruled out deadheading and your cutter is only a hydraulic load when lifting it. In any event you clearly need to fix the control linkage. Dan

If it wasn't there last winter what makes you think its now related to your current situation? Dan

What I was describing would not be temperature dependent but it would create excessive heat. What transmission do you have? Dan