What Do People Do With The Loose Hyd Fitting Covers?

[Soopitup]

The plastic covers for the hydraulic hose ends. I can't believe Kubota leaves these open to collect dirt. They're supposed to keep dirt out of the fittings.

I know I can cover them with a baggie and a zip tie.

Any other creative solutions?

 

[NCL4701]

You talking about quick connect plugs/caps like these or hose ends with no fitting at all?

Edit: If you’re talking about what to do with the dust covers when they’re not covering the connector, I snap the male dust cap into the female dust cap to protect the clean part of each other. With the rear SCV’s the dust caps are all male so I have a few loose females to cover them on the rare occasions I need to cover them.

 

[6869704x4]

Blast them with brake cleaner before you put them on.

 

[Soopitup]

The factory ones on mine.
They don't seem to have anywhere to attach if the hose is hooked up.
I'll have to see if they're male/female. That's a good idea.

 

[NorthwoodsLife]

Do nothing. Let them flop around. That's what I do. Years ago there were no covers.
Eventually the covers will degrade and fall off.

Spray 'em down with your favorite cleaner or WD40 if you are concerned.

 

[GrizBota]

Yup, plug them into one another when the hoses are connected. The stock Kubota caps are better that the ones Land Pride provided. On implements that didn’t come with caps, I just plug the two lines together. But then I set mine up as a male-female pair so there’s no way to hook up the implement backwards. Some folks don’t.

There’s a couple page thread just on hydraulic quick connection fitting caps here on OTT somewhere. IIRC, the cat’s ass was some high dollar aluminum caps that were nearly unobtainium. For some reason I still use plastic ones.

 

[jkrubi12]

I found these on Amazon and they work very nicely; used on 3rd function fittings and grapple connectors too.

 

[Trimley]

For line identification, I use (3x) 1-1/4" Marine Shrink Tubing over the crimps. The product glues itself in place.

 

[ferguson]

Blast them with brake cleaner before you put them on.

I would use somthing else tri-clor in break clean will dry out plastic or rubber. / wd40, cr6, gum out just my 2 cents

 

[nbryan]

My solution for hydraulic fitting protection, when connected or not, was invented to keep swirling snow and ice crystals off of the 4 connections for the loader lines, which are also the height and chute lines for the front snow blower.

Hot hydraulic fluid circulating in use melts snow on contact even when its -20C, and in no time freeze together tight the connections once the flow stops for a short while. I had to keep the ice and snow off the quick-connect sleeves or a disconnection battle was always inevitable.

So came up with using a 12" length of nylon protective hose sleeving, 1 1/2" ID size, slipped it over the female implement end fitting so to cover the connector completely leaving 1 to 1 1/2" past its business end, and zip tie the other end to the hose just below the fitting connection crimp.

When in use or not, the whole female fitting is covered completely by the woven nylon sleeve and zero ice builds up as there's no contact. They stay dry. Mission accomplished!

I am also finding out that all the female quick connect hose fitting remain dirt and dust free, and the male ends remain clean while in use as they're buried inside the protective sleeve too.

So now the dust covers and plugs you're fighting with like I used to are redundant, as the female ends are always protected. I tossed mine.

All it takes is slipping the woven cover back a few inches to expose the quick connect sleeve for color ID. Once it's time to connect, I grab the connector through the protector sleeve to engage the snap ring.

About 1/2" of woven fabric has unraveled with use on the sleeve ends as I haven't bothered to even try to hem or heat weld them to stop it. But my observation is the loose strands actually help with keeping dust and dirt out. I'll keep an eye if they unravel too much, but it looks like progress has stopped around 1/2". Good, because hemming them could be a bit of a pain.

Consider this my copyright claim to fame in describing the fitting protective cover, it's working exceedingly well and costs 12" of 1 1/2" nylon sleeve and a zip tie.

Should I market them?

LOL take it and run. Glad to contribute.

I'll update post with a photo, it's dark and chilly outside. L8R.