M4-071 rear remote (jammed?) not accepting coupler

[Donnie]

Good afternoon, I have a M4-71 that has two rear remotes. I was hooking up an offset this morning and ran into an issue. I could not get the upper left remote to accept the coupler from the house. Upper right had no issue.

I was in a hurry, so I just used the lower set of remotes with no issues.

I've never had an issue with either set of remotes.

I resisted the urge to take a flat head screw driver and a hammer to the 'jammed' remote.

Any thoughts?

A note, I recently used a shredder that only uses one remote, I ran it off the right upper remote, opposite of the one I'm having the issue with.

Thanks, dl

 

[BigG]

I would suggest that you shut the tractor down and move the lever the controls that valve back-and-forth several times. With the tractor still turned off try to hook up your hydraulic and see if it won’t attach now.

You do not want to stick a screwdriver into the hydraulic coupling. It’s too easy to damage the little ball, the plunger or the rubber gaskets that are involved.

 

[TheOldHokie]

Good afternoon, I have a M4-71 that has two rear remotes. I was hooking up an offset this morning and ran into an issue. I could not get the upper left remote to accept the coupler from the house. Upper right had no issue.

I was in a hurry, so I just used the lower set of remotes with no issues.

I've never had an issue with either set of remotes.

I resisted the urge to take a flat head screw driver and a hammer to the 'jammed' remote.

Any thoughts?

A note, I recently used a shredder that only uses one remote, I ran it off the right upper remote, opposite of the one I'm having the issue with.

Thanks, dl

Aren't those supposed to be connect under pressure?

If you used a set on a single acting cylinder you deadheaded the pump into the unused coupler. That coupler valve is probably holding full system pressure right now.

Dan