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Messicks has parts diagrams that will not only point you in the right direction, but also save you quite a bit vs dealer pricing

The TS125A is far and away a last choice. It's a Fiat engine that nobody else ever used vs the 5.9l Cummins I6 or the Kubota V3300.... people seem to like the NH, but I bet parts are a nightmare and it has double the parts count of the other two. Ideally, I find that what I already have works...

I'm pondering which direction to go next if I find that I need more power or if replacing the dry clutch is more money or more time than I want. I even started pricing parts for replacing my dry clutch with a wet clutch, before realizing that it got my a 1/4 of the way to a whole new-to-me...

I would have no problem doing a dry nitrogen purge over the tank. N2 is cheap.

I think that's great news, and I'd be thrilled to keep using diesel additives, but most folks that I talk to think that diesel additives buy you at most a year of diesel storage. I would prefer to buy 250-500 gallons at a time when the market dictates and then use that over a period of YEARS...

I agree, thought UV exposure is a time based kill. Meaning that residence time within the loop is the decisive factor, such that for a reasonable pump flow rate, you would need a length of pipe arranged in a labyrinth. As a practical matter, how hard is it to feed baling wire through a coil of...

Bread without preservatives gets moldy in about 2 days, so my idea was to run little UV LED strips inside the breadbox hooked to a tiny 5VDC wall wart. I threw my test loaf away after about 6 months; it was hard enough to kill a man if thrown with sufficient velocity, but it didn't have a speck...

I thought that additives were mostly to try to prevent gelling or to make fuel last longer?

I had no idea. Those stupid biting flies will actually take a hunk of flesh out of you!

I have never seen a snow blower in person. I have never thought to myself, "Self, let's go experience snow blowers." Minnesota is absolutely gorgeous......in August.

I had everything go dead and found that it was nasty hydraulic fluid and clogged filters. Drained fluid, replaced filters and all worked as it should. FYI, the fluid on my dipstick looked like it came new from the bottle, but the stuff at the bottom was a milkshake. In terms of assessing the...

It looks like he crawled under a tractor which was balanced on a 4x4 balanced on a solar powered pneumatic bottle jack. I think there's a lot of room to criticise Joe's wisdom, but let no man condemn his diligence nor his courage.

At this stage, my chief question is how we got here vs. "patch the hole in the block with JB weld and RTV and call it good"? I'm not even certain that such a "solution" would've been worse than where we're at now.

That's a great point. The other option is to just flip the valve in n the hydraulic block back 90 degrees to it's original position. I'll have to ponder if the female-female jumper is or the valve adjustment tool is more likely to get lost.

Good news! Got everything hooked up and it works great. Thanks all for the great advice! Barn Cat believes that he deserves 95% of the credit for his supervisory role; that is still being negotiated. The Facebook special Westendorf TA26 had unfortunate hoses and no control valve and one...

That kind of got lost, but basically he had an identical separate donor tractor with some other issue and an intact block. He used that block with most of the parts from the "hole in the block" tractor and wound up with the Frankenstein monster from the remainder of the thread.

Last question: magister says they won't have the power beyond plug in stock for at least 3 months, so I will probably just get a summit block and pb plug. Summit offers single spool float as an option,but I'm unclear if that's something that I'd require or hate on a loader control. Is there...

That makes sense. Basically, if the fluid coming out from the cylinders were hitting a wall of fluid in the power beyond circuit at equal pressure, then there would be no pressure delta to operate the cylinder?

Thanks!!! That makes far more sense. I think that my confusion arose from my lack of understanding that the loader control valve is placed in series before the rest of the remotes and the 3 point control. With regard to the tank line, I mistakenly believed that the power beyond VALVE was...

I have the mounts for my new to me Westendorf TA26 mounted up on my M6800, which required some die grinder surgery, a come along and a farm jack. But it's mounted. Next step is hydraulics as this loader didn't come with a control block. I'm very much a novice with hydraulics, but getting this...