FEL Joystick
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RK Tractor Guy
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The joystick lever is mounted correctly by ISO standards and we recommend that it not be modified in a way that would reverse things. Whether vertical or near horizontal, the lever is moved in the same directions for up or down movement regardless of who’s loader or tractor brand. Think of back towards you if vertical mount or down to the floor if horizontal as the same movement, which moves the loader arms and bucket up away from the ground. Push forward if vertical or horizontal and the loader arms will go down and move bucket down and forward. Back and down get same movement, forward and up get same movement.
Thanks to tractor guy. Another member said the same thing, and now that I can picture it vertical it makes sense to me. First real tractor, I'm learning.
BoneStock
Bronze Member
Late response...
The controls are inverted, which is standard on most equipment.
Without seeing the colors of the hydraulic hook ups, you can merely switch raise and lower hoses on both ends of the DCV (handle), and have up as up, and down as down.
The float position would be useless however, as it would be working with the up function.
Szeiger already tried this, as I read above, but this will not harm the hydraulics, same flow, just change in direction.
The controls are inverted, which is standard on most equipment.
Without seeing the colors of the hydraulic hook ups, you can merely switch raise and lower hoses on both ends of the DCV (handle), and have up as up, and down as down.
The float position would be useless however, as it would be working with the up function.
Szeiger already tried this, as I read above, but this will not harm the hydraulics, same flow, just change in direction.
RickDpwv
New member
If you rotate the hydraulic control block for the FEL forward (mine has slots cut in the mounting plate that allow some rotation) and bend the joystick up, it will make the controls more like a vertically mounted joy stick; aka other tractors. .
snymat68
Platinum Member
This is not true. The float would work just the same. All the float position does is connect the "up" and "down" functions so that the fluid can free flow. It's (more or less) as if the two ends of the lift cylinders are connected to each other so the pistons can move in and out without resistance. This would work just the same weather the up/down hoses were correct or reversed, since it's basically just connecting them to each other. The float position on the valve doesn't "work with" up or down. It's an independent position that happens to be on the same axis as the up and down functions. :thumbsup:
