New LA524 Loader w/ L3400 Install

[LCShively]

Hi Guys, I bought a lightly used 2005 L3400 w/280 hours a few months ago,
and last month I bought a brand new LA524 loader.

It was a straight forward easy installation, with the loader brackets mounting to the tractor frame with very little play on the hand tightened bolts. (In fact, so close I feared some of the bolts may not line up...but they did)
I say this because....

The dealer recommended mounting the brackets, then the loader before tightening the brackets.

Since there was zero slop or movement on the bracket loader arms,
I tightened them and mounted the loader, and torqued them after mounting.


The loader mounted great, with absolutely no effort required to install the Quick-Attach pins, the loader set into the cradles fine.

After installation, I detected at full-up top, the left side of the loader stops before the right, maybe just a little, and as the right side tops-out, there is a little pressure twist in the loader/mount at the end.

I have about 10 hours of use on it now, and it is the same.

My guess is that the loader lift pins are not exactly the same distance on the arms left to right, just a manufacturing tolerance issue.

Have you ever watched your loader top out and if so, does it do that completely evenly?

Is there something else I am missing?

Is this maybe something I should talk to the dealer who sold me the loader about?

Thanks, Lance

 

[mickeyd]

Welcome to the forum. My LA524 on my L3200DT doesn't do that. Seems to be smooth all the way up.

 

[Bluegill]

I've never lifted either of mine all the way up, so don't know...

 

[North Idaho Wolfman]

I've never lifted either of mine all the way up, so don't know...

Ditto, and personally why would you want too?
I'm never going to lift the loader that high with a load on it!

 

[CaveCreekRay]

Somebody once said that after maintenance, or when spanking new, the two pistons are not exactly in the same position.

Think of it this way, mis-adjust your two pistons so one is one inch farther out than the other. Putting fluid in or taking it out doesn't change piston position, one relative to the other. What does is driving the piston to its stop, and letting the other one reach its stop, catching up, so to speak.

That is what you did by running them through their full cycle limits.

 

[LCShively]

That is what you did by running them through their full cycle limits.

Good Thought,
I have cycled it quite a few times and it is still the same.

 

[whitetiger]

"My guess is that the loader lift pins are not exactly the same distance on the arms left to right, just a manufacturing tolerance issue."


You are correct, no two tractors, brackets or loader frames are exactly the same. I see this on more than half of the tractors I service no matter the make or model.

 

[LCShively]

You are correct, no two tractors, brackets or loader frames are exactly the same. I see this on more than half of the tractors I service no matter the make or model.

Thank You, I had more or less assumed that,
I Appreciate your response,

Lance