Recent content by Jerry-B-WI

Much cleaner setup with the new fittings. I'd be a little concerned with the weight/vibration on the 3/8 bolt setup. I can picture that fatiguing and breaking off. Now that you have the measurements to center your assembly could you cut some square tube and weld it together instead of the bolt...

Almost sounds like a plumbing project.

Just remember to measure twice and cut/weld once.

Why not just make an adapter to change direction of the handle? Square piece of stock with two holes drilled and tapped to the appropriate thread that are 90* from each other. Take the handle apart by the boot, install your adapter and viola it changed direction. Or bend the handle that's on the...

Can you get your tall elbows with the JIC swivels like the short elbows?

I would use a male pipe x female JIC swivel straight fitting. If you get a swivel fitting on the hose end it will have a o-ring in it. I've seen those o-rings fail and the rest of the hose will still be good--waste of a good hose because of a 30 cent o-ring. The fitting I'm recommending has no...

Getting late tonight. I'll send some links tomorrow of the type of swivels I'd use.

If they used Loctite 242 it's only a medium strength. You can get them loose using hand tools. But you'll have to have the valve body anchored so you can put some force on your wrench. Use a good fitting open end or a tubing wrench. The fitting you took out of the valve is a ORB fitting...

This is a ORB, o-ring boss, fitting.

If you need new o-rings I'd go with the viton. As for the elbows I'd use ORB fittings, you can position them at any angle you need then tighten up the nut to seal the o-ring and lock it down. Good luck with the knee and tractor project.

Oops! I assumed the literature was from Kubota. It appears you are correct, if you have the hoses labeled correctly, the valve is inverted. Do you think your hoses will be long enough to make the connections? I think you'll be good to go as long as your hoses are long enough. Do you know what...

Do you use the 3-pt? Figure 2 for the original valve shows A1-B1, A2-B2 then a pressure port and a tank port. Look at fig. 3 and it shows the hoses from the 3-pt valve going back to the first valve. It appears it goes through the first valve and then to tank, through the tank port and hose #12...

The first link doesn't work. But looking at the second link it looks like the power beyond is a pass through to another valve bank. I'll assume it's an open center valve and instead of going to tank it goes to the second valve bank and goes to tank from there when the first valve isn't being...

Does either valve have a flow schematic? I've never dealt with tractor hydraulics but have some experience with hydraulics and pneumatics on manufacturing machines.

You sure that PB port is Power Beyond and not just Power B that would go to the opposite end of the cylinder that would be labeled Power A? Never heard of Power Beyond.