Is "ALO" a substitute for ÅLÖ? ÅLÖ is a Swedish company with a good reputation, and the Swedes do know meallurgy. The issue goes back to MF regardless, as they specified the price they were willing to ay.
It would be interesting to see if the current frames are made differently. The sticker on that one says REV2. Are they perhaps up to REV3 or REV4?
Also, wonder if the welds would be the same on the broken and new frames. As in, were some missed on the broken frame?
and if you think about it, having a relief could be dangerous, we have all seen the video's of the hydraulic spikes when leverage gets applied to the cylinders, if you kept the relief in the entire time, the loader will drop if it encounters a bounce while moving.Interesting. Do you happen to have a diagram how this works? I always thought when the spool is centered it closes all other ports off so no way for the relief to work.
IS MF standing behind the machine?Was moving dirt today when all of the sudden my loader started going down all by itself. This was crazy looking. You can see in the photos that the loader sub frame gave way on both sides. It appears to be either bad welds or cheap metal. Either way, it’s nuts that it would do this with only 140 hours on it.