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Since the manuals are available on the TYM site, they probably are not in the Smiths archive. TYM has said they intend to start uploading the manuals and information on the older tractors and implements. So, always check them first. Check the TYM World site, and if you don’t see your...

Calling BS: Just checked the TYM World site, there are 18 available downloads if I include the glossy sales literature. https://tym.world/en-us/parts-and-support/available-downloads/

All I can suggest is to check all the frame attachments against the manual, and while you’re there retorque the bolts.

If you have a rental place nearby, rent a few different candidates, and see what you like to operate, and what is how effective at what you’re doing. Once you have it narrowed down, figure out what suits you, and how long it will take to pay off, doing huge work you are doing versus the cost of...

Depends on the gravel, and how much it got fluffed by the grading. Most alluvial gravels will get firmer with compaction because the rock is rounded and smooth. Highly granular talus materials with benefit less, but still benefit some form compaction.

OK, most of what I have read so far in this thread scares me. Standard plans for a residential driveway are typically 4-inches of 3500-psi concrete, over 4-inches of of “road base” gravel, compacted to 90% of the Proctor theoretical, and 1/4-inch welded wire mesh at 6-inch spacing, embedded at...

This evening, I have read three posts in the TYM forum. Two of them had people asking for manuals for their machines. TYM has the manuals for all of the tractors and implements offered since the site update available for free downloads. Smith’s Enterprises archived all of the manuals...

Check the TYM World site for a manual for the mower deck. TYM typically has the information for loaders, mower decks, and backhoes separate from the tractor manuals, as the accessories may be used with several different tractors. Or superseded by newer versions during the life of the tractor...

The TYM World site has the manuals for their recent tractors. For older tractors they don’t list, such as my T233, one of the dealers, (Smith’s Engerprises), archived all of the manuals on the old TYM site, and you can down load them from their archive. Just Google search “TYM t233 service...

When I was a young buck, in the starving, pre-starving student mode. I worked as a highway department inspector for projects constructed by others in the right of way. I was inspecting a pipeline contractor putting a 24-inch high pressure natural gas line in, and we had about half a mile of...

The root cause of the failure is the u-joints need lubricated, and TYM didn’t say to do it in any of the manuals or service bulletins. /The u-joint goes bad, and the vibration causes damage to other things.

Plus having two machines with hydraulics, give you the advantage of having equipment to lift and move things wh en. You need to work on the other machine

Not if you bury them under something with a 100-year design life like a major waterline, or natural gas transmission line.

Engineers are taught to find answers, and discouraged from knowing things beyond universal knowledge like conversion factors, gravitational acceleration, etc. which don’t change. The most critical things engineers do, are governed by codes and standards which get revised every three or four...

Decided that it will be easier to mount two diverter valves back to back sandwiching the loader arm, than to track down a suitable plate, and drill it to mount the single valve. Plus with a diverter on both loader circuits, one of them has float, which could come in handy if I build a Skid...

NPT, (National Pipe Taper) needs a sealant/lubricant. NPS, (National Pipe Straight) normally uses a copper washer and two flat surfaces perpendicular to the thread. Everything else uses some kind of tapered shoulder, or 0-ring in a groove. The only one which needs sealant is the NPT. Sealant...

I am going to install a pair of diverters on my tiny tractor. TYM no longer has the kit for my tractor and loader. I bought a WR Long Kit, and I might be able to install it in the line from the pump, before the factory loader valve like the instructions show. But the tiny tractor doesn’t...

Video of installing the factory kit: The loader valve is ready to bolt the third function onto.

Does it have the active tensioning system? Not sure on the Case units. Look for a large piston on the front idler wheel. Cat has a large piston which pushes on the front idler wheel and keeps the tracks tensioned. As the tracks wear and loosen, it uses the oil pressure to keep them tensioned...

Uponor make an insulated PEX with an integrated heat trace. Depending on where you’re at, and how stable the soils are it makes a lot of sense, because you don’t have to bury it as deep. Where I’m at the soil is mostly large cobble and rocks, with just enough sand and clay to fill the voids...

A new 12-volt pump and reservoir are about $250. So, if the rest of the hydraulics on the plow are working, it may be far easier to just install a new electric pump and reservoir.

I needed more weight, a lot of what I use the tractor for is the loader, or forks. And the rear wanted to lift before I got to the full lift capacity of the FEL assembly when using the forks. I bought one of the commercial ballast boxes, and sat it down at the ready-mix plant so they could...

I think we all want to be this guy

So, I’m thinking on ways to secure the tractor on the trailer, and had the thought that I could weld a SSQA plate onto the trailer and clip into it to secure the front of the tractor. Any thoughts positive or negative would be appreciated. Thanks, Jigs

I’m headed over the mountain to the nearest dealer tomorrow to have RimGuard put in the rear tires. Since the trip to the dealer is a 3-hr drive one way: Would it make sense to have them RimGuard the front wheels while I’m there. My tractor is a TYM T233, which is a bit bigger than a JD 1025.

Most Chinese manufacturers use the Japanese Industrial fittings, because it tends to dominate much of the Asian market they are normally building for. But if they are building for export to North America, or the EU, they might decide to use a different style for that production run, to match...

In rural areas the Autoparts places make custom hoses and have a good selection of the common fittings. I can get nearly any hose I might need at one or the other parts houses. And there is a semi-retired guy, who bought an Air Force surplus hydraulics service truck, and will come to you and...

I think it was out there, by the 90s, but harder to procure. Supply houses probably had it, but consumer-based outlets didn't. Kind of like the Electrical Combination Screwdrivers. The manufacturers started using the electrical combination screw heads, (a combination of the Canadian Roberts...

Dexcom G7 sensors last ten days, and then give you a twelve-hour grace period before they shut down. It is programmed in and based on most insurance covering thirty-day supply increments. The old G5 and G6, sensors lasted seven days, (but you could trick them into restarting). The seven-day...

And when things are hot riveted together, the rivet flows into the holes, and locks up the relation of the holes to each other. So, location and size of holes can be less precise than if you're designing and building with bolted connections. Problem I had with refurbishing an 1890s, horse...

Per DuPont, the ASTM, and the various building codes: White tape is single density and intended for water pipes of 3/8 of an inch or less. It can sometimes be found in a silver color to match the pipes. Red tape is triple density, for pipes one-half inch to 2 inches in diameter. It is...

When I asked the mechanic at the TYM dealership, what to use they said they use a Shell Tractor Hydraulic fluid, Spirax S4 TXM for summer, and Spirax S3 TLV for cold weather, such as snow plowing. Other options are Rotella in the various grades. Just be sure it is specified for wet brakes.

Leaking seal internally on the cylinders, or a leaking valve.

I'd check and see if the loader which came with your tractor had, SSQA avaialble. At some point the SSQA became standard from TYM, and they started building it onto all their loaders, and added a digit to the model number of the loader. L200 became an L2000. I haven't done one personally but...

If you use Teflon Tape, use the Yellow tape intended for gas and fuels. The white and pink will break down when exposed to hydrocarbons, including hydraulic and motor oils.

Tried them, but couldn't find anything on their web site. I'll try calling Grainger the week before I head home, and see if the counter folks can source it.

Used to be if you were in a position to buy expensive things, manufacturers gave you things when you did. The John Deere hat was only available as a gimme when you bought the tractor. Every year had a new hat, and they then sold the old style. Those gimme hats and shirts were rural status...

I'm adding diverters to my FEL to run a grapple, and a hydraulic shaker. I looked at adding hoses, but the FEL is on the smaller side, (23-hp tractor) and it just looks kludged together. Pluss the cost on hoses is out the roof. So, I want to install metal hard lines. The problem in that...

You called collect when traveling to let the folks know you were there safe. The operator would say the name of the caller, and where they were calling from. If you needed to talk to them, you used a different name.

I had a twenty-year-old Dodge Dart, which had never been out of Vegas, when I was going to college in the late 80s. It rained and the wipers blew the fuse when I turned them on. So, that weekend, I tore into it, and being in the starving student mode, couldn't afford a rebuilt wiper motor...

I had a friend in engineering school, who took an old handset from a phone, complete with the cloth covered cord, and made it into a Bluetooth device tied to his cell phone. The whole thing cost him about six bucks to put together. The looks he got walking around talking on a handset, with a...

Guys: most of you are as old as I am. I remember inflation at 7%, with a prime lending rate of over 12%. They called it stagflation. Remember graduating from high school, with high unemployment, and insane interest. Considered myself damned lucky to get a summer job, at an airbase for...

Those are all “male”. The plug has the 12-mm square male hex protruding, and he needs the female socket.

8-pt 1/2-inch socket will work fine

Thanks guys. Need to start pricing, and researching a bit more. Have to go out of town for a few weeks, so the project is going on hold for a bit.

I am going to wire some auxiliary lights, and solenoid driven diverter valves. The wiring will be exposed to sun and weather. Is SJOOTW, or SOOTW a suitable wire? Or do you have better recommendations? And on wire sizing: How do you size wiring for LED lights? I sized wire for the tiny...

I started looking for a diesel, standard cab, long bed, with a manual transmission. Ended up with an 08 Dodge 1-ton, mega cab, with a short box, and an automatic, and the factory optional Class V, receiver hitch, a fifth wheel Hitch, and airbags. It tows well. And is the second worst...

They stole your saws, because none of the rental places, had saws left. I ended up with a 20-inch electric Chainsaw after a high wind event when I still lived in Las Vegas. The rental places all wanted $100 for half a day. I had gone to HomeDesperate, to see if they had any rentals. I...

The manuals Operators/Service/Parts for the T233 and T273, are readily avaialble if you search for them.

Just an FYI for folks finishing this in the future: Typically, the valve itself has the port identifications cast into it.

But, no matter of how deep you embed the bar, the chlorides will penetrate far enough that it willl corrode. Which is why for bridges and similar structures, the recommendation is to use epoxy coated, or pultruded synthetic bar. And I think they are starting to recommend against using the...

If you do a Google search, and look for a Smiths Enterprises archive link, you can get the manuals for the older tractors, which the folks at TYM dropped from their online listings, when they updated the site. (Piss poor customer service TYM.) That is where I got the manuals for my T233HST...

The current "best practice" is to avoid galvanizing, if any part is exposed. Because any nicks become focus points for the corrosion. Steel with good embedment, usually won't corrode, because the environment in the concrete has too high of a pH level to allow red rust to form. And, the...

It is important to remember, that the trailer rotates around the axles. I’ll try not to go off into the physics of what goes on too far. Think of the trailer from the hitch point to the center of the axle(s). This lever length for easy to follow math, I’ll do like a physicist, and make it...

Recommendation on Weight Distributing Hitch. I highly recommend the WeighSafe weight distributing hitches. They have an integral tongue weight scale built in. And they have an app, which based on the weight of your load, the tongue weight and the axle lay out, the app gives you what tongue...

I found a great book on trailers at the thrift store about 6-months before mu buddy and I rebuilt his trailer. Which was a home built by a local Welder. This is the book: Trailers : How to Design and Build. Volume 2. Structure, by M. M. Smith. It can be found on Amazon, along with the...

If you youtube, there is a poster “Project Farm” who tests all kinds of things. He did a review of batteries a while back. they are not all the same. I install either a block heater or oil pan heater, and heaters on the hydraulic tank, transmission, and on my trucks I add a heater pad to...

Back on Topic: Check the oil company sites. They may have a listing on their sites recommending what lubricants to use on what tractor. Shell does for sure, and I think Texaco and Chevron both have them also. I stopped at the Shell because they had my T233 listed, and i have had good...

Just went and looked at an add for them. They appear to be a box blade without the center riser, over the cutting edge, not sure if they have double edged cutting blades. That means it can’t carry much material forward, which is important if you’re trying to level things out. I would look for...

To back a trailer: Put your hands on the bottom of the wheel, and move your hand the direction you want to move the back of the trailer. When you add a pivot point (aka the wagon), you move your hand to the top of the wheel, and move your hand the direction you want the back of the wagon to go.

Drill and tap the holes, if it doesn’t already have them filled with bolts, you are supposed to remove and replace during servicing. Some manufacturers think the Zerks locations are too exposed and will get broken. Others are just cheap and want to save a few pennies on bolts vs Zerks...

Ordered a pallet fork rack with 36-inch forks and a grapple from Titan. Yesterday I got A message that it had been delivered. Got home, and found a pair of 36-inch forks. No frame and no grapple. Been trying for two hours to find out where the rest of the order is.

How it was explained to me: With just a trailer on a ball or hook, the trailer goes the direction you move the bottom of the steering wheel. Add another pivot, it goes the direction you move the top of the wheel. Every pivot go bottom to top, top to bottom, etc. I was told this by the...

I recently retired after thirty years as a Construction Engineer. I worked for one of the big three home builders, as projects manager, for a few years. Did Facilities Engineering for the Forest Service for the last decade and a half, building and taking care of the buildings on two forests...

I think that sometime soon I need to design a wedge to bolt a cutting-edge onto the heel of the bucket.

A skid steer comes with a set of auxiliary hydraulics forward. The tractor would make the most sense if it too had a third function kit install

Most SuperTraps get installed without the packing in them. They quiet right down with it in them.

My ex brother-in-law was a concrete contractor who specialized in installing custom stamped and dyed concrete patios. He had two skidsteers, to do work in back yards. He was really busy, and borrowed my brothers Kubota tractor, to do one of the jobs. He was so impressed with how much less...

Look for a SuperTrap muffler to fit after the existing muffler. They clamp or weld on, have different inlet sizes from 1-inch through 2.5-inch in 1/8th inch increments, you can adjust the back pressure by adding or removing diffuser plates, and are certified as spark arrestors. They also are...

There is some difference in the charge circuits, and the temperature limit circuits, between higher end companies batteries. As well as higher quality battery cells, and buss bars connecting those cells.

Actually, they find peak horsepower using the rpm X torque equation, but instead of using simultaneous values, they use stalled rotor torque and peak free spinning rpm.

Hint if you click the users name or icon, their information pops up, telling you when they were last online. If the OP hasn't been on in a while don't expect them to reply. And you are better off starting a new thread. RE the three lines which are there when the backhoe is removed. Just a...

Good point. Guess I should buy a few sets of ferrules, and hook up one of the fittings, and pressurize it with a hand pump, before I try it on the actual tractor.

The fluid goes through the loader arms, and The "normal set up, is the fluid leaves pump, and goes to the Front-End-Loader valve, if the valve is in the neutral position, the fluid leaves through a pressure beyond port, then goes to the transmission body, where it runs into the internal...

I have some 3/8 SwageLok tubing fittings. I need 10-mm fittings. Can I just swap the 10-mm ferrules into the 3/8 fittings to convert them? The difference in the OD of the tubing is 0.0187-inches. Why do I want to do this? There are 10-mm ferrules on eBay for about $2.00 per set, versus $20...

I still say that if you know enough to work on your own rigs, a JDM mini truck is far handier around the place than a UTV, in most instances. Admittedly, the minitrucks do not have the ground clearance, or suspension travel of the UTVs. But, the mini truck has a far more usable bed, and if you...

Call around to local metal fabricating shops, if there aren’t any close, call a local welding and steel supply to see if they know of any. There aren’t any metal fabricating shops where I live, but there are three small businesses, and a couple of individuals who have hydraulic metal working...

Actually, adding a cutting edge to the bottom back of the bucket, would greatly decrease the chance of damaging the curl cylinders, because they would be fully retracted.

My T233 won’t shift to 4wd or high low range, if there is any tension in the transmission from the HST Drive. With the tractor off no problem, and if I here any whine from the HST I tap the pedal opposite of the one last used, and it generally will slip right in. I need to get under and adjust...

Not sure of all of them but quite a few of the ones for ten to fifteen year old ones. They don’t list them on their site but if you search for the manual for a given tractor, an out the tenth link will be an archive link to Smiths.

I was taught to put the chain in a big coffee can, and fill the can with enough melted paraffin to cover the chain, and the let it set off the heat until the paraffin got solid and then to it again. That was back in the days before pre-lubricated chains. Now i just spray them off with...

Bucking’ Billy Ray Smith, is sawyer in British Columbia, who has YouTube channel. He explained how to work this kind of mess a year or so back. You could search his videos and find the episode.

I’d stay with the OEM if possible. Most aftermarket kits look like some guy just put it together in the garage, with off the shelf hoses, which don’t quite fit. The OEM looks like it was actually designed to fit. Im looking for a factory kit I can canabalize to get the hardlines and brackets.

Any of the local shops here could make you one. Not certain, but it appears to be the pressure relief line from the valve back to the transmission. Shouldn’t have much if any pressure. if you do find someone with parts let me know. I’d like to find some spares for my T233.

My first guess is that it was made by American Yard Machine, they made/make a bunch of different brands, selling the same machines in different color schemes. So, that the retail places never have to price match.

Messy can be your freind. If you have a leaking cylinder you want to know sooner than later. If you’re plumbed back to the tank, so there isn’t a mess, then you won’t know anything is wrong, until you have a serious failure. Similar to why you don’t caulk around a toilet base. You want to...

I can get a 12V to 5V power supply fairly easily. Gonna have to keep looking at this a bit longer.

I want to mount an electronic hydraulic pressure gauge on my tractor. I found a gauge with a 4,000-psi max reading, which ties into the wiring for the ICP sensor on PowerStrokes. Does anyone know which of the three wires in the wiring harness is what? I’m guessing one is 12-V power, one is...

My CGM says NO!!!. And from a chemistry stand point the caramelized toasty part probably breaks down faster, and thus hits your system faster than the “raw” untoasted stuff. Part of the toasting cycle is the conversion of the starches, into sugars and then the caramelization of those sugars...

The loader may have sat for a couple of years, and gotten dust, etc. in the grease. I tend to. Blow such surfaces off with brake cleaner, and then lube them with chain lube, which doesn’t attract and hold dust and debris.

Two possibles: leak at the piston in the cylinders, or leak at the FEL valve. check the adjustment on the valves to be sure they are actually centered when the joystick is, and that there isn’t just enough resistance in the controls to keep the valve from closing all the way. Much easier...

My Dad made my younger brother rebuild the engine on Mom’s 69 Volvo, after he didn’t check the oil, and grenaded the engine. Went to the wrecking yard and bought a core, had it machined and then made him pay for everything and made him do all the work. He was pretty religious about...

Short line has kits for some of the John Deere tractors, and might be able to set you up. Worth Contacting them. https://www.shortlineparts.com/complete-joystick-packages.html

From the Summit sight. They jut go in series.

My observation is that on a lot of the CUTs and SCUTS, the hydraulics are twitchy, because the valves are 11-gpm, and the pumps are down around 5-gpm max flow. So the ports are just a little too large to open the small amount you need for smooth control of the hydraulics. The solution is to...

And paint them bright yellow so they stand out.

I’m hunting down pieces and parts put put a third forward on my T233. I plan to use breakaway couplings. The outer sleeve is held in the bracket, and if the hose is caught up, it pulls on the body of the coupling, and it releases, instead of damaging the hose or anything else...

Where is the idiot light sensor? Can you remove it and install a sender for a gauge.. In most applications you can. NOt sure what your thermostat housing looks like, but I have seen over height housings with a port for mechanical gauge on the bottom. And, you could probably fab a spacer with...

A layer of reinforcing steel is referred to as a mat. Depending on the purpose of the structure, and loads it is designed to withstand. A bridge structure may have so many mats, and so much steel in each mat that you have to be carefull of not get teh steel so close together that the larger...

Some rebar might be weldable, but generally it isn’t. And whether it can be welded would highly dependent on where it is, and where the weld is in relation to the rest of the bar.

From my place it is two or two and a half hour, 120 or 150-miles to any kind of dealer. But in my small remote town, there is a shop which specializes in fixing tractors, of any brand. And now, one who specializes in hydraulics. The u-joints on the drive shaft between the engine and...

The breakaway couplers have the sleeve fixed, and as the body moves it releases. This means that you can push or pull on the hose to connect or disconnect.

Which would prevent it from lifting off the safety pawl enough for it to release.

https://toplinemachinery.com/ has brackets, with breakaway couplers mounted. And just plane brackets. Plus a large selection of couplers.

Mis-wired fuse panel?

Attached is the manual for the LT200 on my T233, which should be the loader on your T273. I’m guessing the LJ200 is a typo. Jordan’s up in the Idaho panhandle is one of the better stocking dealers. I have called and had them direct ship things with no issue. Good luck, Jigs

trace the wiring from he solenoid back. It probably isn’t actually energizing. And, try finding a manual for a TYM from he same ime period, with he same size engine. And see how close he wiring is. (Sometimes my keyboard messes up and doesn’t recognize that I pressed the T-key. Sorry about...

I’ve been looking at the specs and parts books, for the three tractors, and they seem to be the same except for the horsepower of the Mitsubishi S3L and S3L2 engines. The S3L2 engines have a 1.3-liter displacement. But the block, bell housing pattern and flywheel are the same. It appears...

There is probably a power beyond line from the loader valve, to the top of the transmission, which feeds to the 3-point cylinder. You can probably download the parts manual, and the repair manual, to check that. On my T233, I’m adding a second cable operated loader control valve between the...

Depending on the station, it might keep you mad enough to not sleep for several days.

It is the suction hose then, the water pump pulls water from the radiator, and pushes it into the block. You can probably use one of the flex hoses, but it has to be able to not collapse under suction.. Most of the flex hoses should work.

Is the bottom hose suction on your tractor? You may be able to make up a hose but, I think that you rapidly start getting to tthe cost of the factory hose.

Check for Voltage to the fuse for the instruments. AFter it is probably a voltage regulator. All the gauges you lost are the ground sensor ones, and have a common electrical feed through the one fuse. So begin by checking voltage before he fuse, and after the fuse, if you have he 12-V there...

Sounds like the drive isn’t going to neutral when you come off the pedals. You might try adjusting and lubricating the linkage between the pedals and the transmission.

Smith’s has an archive of all the manuals that TYM abandoned when they upgraded their site to include only current production models. Smith’s is the only free source or the factory literature for the older tractors. If they were closer, I would try to give them my business when I could.

I bought a new cast iron sink, store would install for $50. I decided that I would install it myself. Between getting it into place, and crawling around under the sink, I got my upper back messed up. Took three weeks and $750 my deductible to get the back realigned . It kept hurting for...

TYM world has a dealer search put in your street address, and it will display a list of dealers sorted by distance. DO NOT put in a city and state. It try’s to limit you to dealer locations, and you get just the closest dealer. After that come back and ask if anyone has experience with the...

Amazon, search “locakable metal battery box”

There are a few videos on YouTube which show how to bend things back true. Some make more sense than others.

Or A Cosworth Vega.

Amperage set right? Wire feed too slow, wire feed erratic (you might need to adjust your feed roller for the thinner wire), bad ground, or the wrong tip stick-out.

My 7-ft rear blade, and 7-ft landscape rake, were bought used locally off a show the one local radio station has, called “Swap Shop”, where people call in and have couple of minutes to tell what they have for sale or are looking for. I was waiting online to ask for Category One three point...

They were one of the first TYM dealers in the USA. They frequently have things in stock which most dealers tell you they can’t get from the factory.

Jordan’s in northern Idaho, is supposedly the largest stocking dealer in the US..

So far as I know TYM does.

On mine I take the cap off the end of the position with the float, and clean things off. If you don’t use your float often, tiny bits of debris will deposit and gum things up. When I first bought my tractor used, the guy I bought it from had never tried to put it in float. So the first time...

If you can figure out where/how to mount the gauge, all you need to do is get your sensor into a water jacket. I’ve seen it done with a short piece ot tubing with the sensor port which just went into the radiator hose. The “race and performance parts places may have them as stock items. I...

There are online, and phone app calculators, for marking out hydraulic tubing, tah would probably work to help determine the layout of the rod to get a finished U-bolt. It is two nineties, and pretty seating to calculate even by hand.

To some extent it depends on what engine you have. If it is a TYM engine, then through TYM. If your engine was manufactured by someone else then you can get parts for the engine specifically. I have a Mitsubishi in my little tractor, and it was used in a whole bunch of light equipment...

He has been off for almost two years. So, don’t expect an answer. If you click on the highlighted user name, it opens a window with their data, and tell you teh last time they were one. drware was last on in July of 21.

It depends on how severe things are. Some Diabetics, even type 1s, are still producing insulin but ithe cells are resisting it. The cgm can have a pump slaved to it. Or, it can just be a lot more data, and teh ability for near instant feed back. Mine sends a reading to the reciever and my...

It would be hard dealing with something like that. The saving grace is he is getting old enough to start taking control himself. I’d be giving him age appropriate books and articles, and finding web links for him. I have a simple technique which works well for me. I take the total carbs...

You can use a FEL valve from another application to replace teh one you have stock. First, are you certain you don’t have float? When I first bought my tractor, the previous owner hadn’t used the float, and I had to take the cap off the valve, and clean things out, in order to get the float...

My Mom was a Geriatric Social Worker. I read in one of her magazines, probably thrity years ago, that over 90% of people in their fifties say they want to age at home as long as possible. Less than 5% do anything to make that actually possible. I plan on remodeling the walkout basement of...

Yes that is what I’m going to do. The detent power to rear valve remains where it is. On my tractor the power to rear valve, is fed through the power beyond port on the stock FEL valve. By intercepting the power beyond port of the stock Front End Loader (FEL) Valve before it gets to the...

If you have an independent tractor repair shop nearby, ask their opinion, as to which is easier to get parts for, and which they would rather work on. The local tractor mechanic is who pointed me towards Jordans as a parts source. The previous owner had him work on the tractor i have a...

Mound the pipe backfill, leaving the joints exposed. PVC has a fairly large thermal expansion coefficient and doesn’t like changes in temperature. For example, the coefficient of thermal expansion for PVC (3.38 x 10-5 in./in./°F) is almost three times as high as for aluminum and six times as...

Locally, I would try the Steel, Ranch and Welding Supply shop, the Local ACE hardware, and the parts houses. NAPA has quite a bit of depth in their catalog. I live in a rural hub two or three-hours from big towns so teh locals have quite a bit of selection in stock, and can order most anything...

The local steel supplier/welding shop. And, real hardware stores like ACE, can order some things. And, as always search eBay, set to worldwide, and use metric sizing.

If you have somewhere you can store them suspended by the hinge points, off the ground and out of harms way, just figure out a system to simulate the cab part of the door hinge. On most lift off systems, the pins stay with the door side. It could be as simple as drilling holes in a couple of...

The CGM, definitely discourages cheating: Having the thing beeping every five minutes, definitely makes you think about whether the cheat is worth the hassles.

I worked with a Superintendant who had converted his back seat into a filing cabinet and a rack for rolled plans. His truck was his mobile office, and he had a dozen or so projects to keep track of.

Rear remote valves to run backhoes have detents, and stay where you put them. Rear remotes for general use have spring returns to center. You can add loader valves to run things at the rear and leave the rear remote in the detent, but you typically loose the lift on the three point. Or you...

Copper, some PEX, and black iron are suitable for air lines. PVC and PE line is not. Both will crystallize over time and then fail catastrophically.

The left engine light indicates low oil pressure. The right is the check engine light. Low oil pressure would trigger a check engine warning. And both would illuminate. Try changing the engine oil. If that doesn’t work try pulling the sensor of the idiot light and hooking in a guage, to...

Marine grade shrink tube does a good job of marking hydraulic lines. It appears to be stable when exposed to hydraulic fluid, and you can get it in multiple colors.

On mine, if I haven’t judged it for a while, a smudge of fine stuff builds up, and blocks the movement. If I pull the cap off and clean things up, and put it back together, it works fine so long as a I keep using it. If I don’t use it for about twenty hours, it gets clogged up.

And if all else fails Jordans in he Idaho Panhandle, has a reputation of being the largest stocking dealer in the US. They don’t mind shipping.

TYM World may have the brochures available for down load. https://tym.world/en-us/parts-and-support/available-downloads/?model=T494

Summit has good pictures on their site. Which give you good direction. And, what you’re proposing should work. I’m in the process of gathering parts to do the same thing on mine with a second cable actuated loader valve and a second joystick. Power Beyond from the FEL valve to the...

Congratulations to being we3ll on your way to my goal of living out a diabetic life, with all the pieces parts still attached and working with minimum complications. I dignosed in my early forties, and have made it 23-years with no overt complications. Like you said, it is a good...

The smooth chains wrk fine on ice. Above a certain pressure, ice melts back to water. The chains melt their own little pocket in the ice.

Cintact a couple of kit makers, and ask for their advice. It is their best interest to sell you a kit which will work reliably.

He was replying to a post in this thread which contained erroneous information.

You should ground all attachaments any time you shut off teh machine, and cycle teh hydraulics with the engine off, to relieve all pressure, any time you leave it. One of those safety things. Equipment is an attractive hazard, kids (and childish adults), will climb on and play with the...

To clean the inside of a hose, my first thought is that if it is short enough, pull one of the flexible rifle bore cleaners, wetted with a bit of hydraulic fluid through it.

The TYM site has the downloads for current machines. When they revamped teh site, the literature ofr the older tractors and attachments disappeared. One of the Dealers, Smiths Enterprises, has the older manuals archived from their site. If i was anywhere near them, I would give them my...

For better welding helmets I would expect them to have the ability to mount the glasses frames like the military has for the gas masks. If you Are color blind you may need a darker lens than most of the auto darkening helmets can get to. Better helmets allow the mounting of a second shade in...

Bought two new pairs of Redwings. This week. Both made in America with their puncture resistant american leather. Perusing the web site, I discovered that most of the Made in America, with American materials boots come in sizes 4 through 18, and widths of A through EEE. Their other boots...

My younger brother has messed up feet. he was surveying in the mountains along the Utah Wyoming border, and got a secondary hit from some lightning that hit down the ridge from him, and it blew his big toe nails off. Said the first mile back towards the Jeep wasn’t too bad. Then the shock...

I’ve taken it for diabetes. Quit it after a month, because it works mostly by emulating the hormone the pancreas releases to tell your stomach that your blood sugar is high, and it shouldn’t release anything more inot the intestines. Thus you feel full. You also get gird, and heartburn. I...

Damned little can outrun a human in shape. We are endurance runners. The bushman of of the Kalihari shoot their tiny little arrows at animals, and then chase them as they run away, as soon as the animal tries to stop and recover from it’s sprint, they catch up, and shoot it with their tiny...

Like everything on the internet, prices at Amazon vary by the moment. They have a very complex algorithm based on your web browser history, what you have looked at, what you have bought in the past, what you bought from other vendors, and what people with a history/profile similar to yours have...

When I bought the tiny truck, I listed it on YouShip, and a guy brought it from western Colorado to Idaho, for $500. He was hauling six motorcycles from Denver to Spokane, and fit the tiny truck on the trailer with a motorcycle in the tiny truck bed. He, was semi-retired, and took loads to see...

No, they are not. Our dentition and digestive system are that of omnivores. Basically that which don’t fight back hard enough, or run away fast enough is food. Problem most Americans have had since WWII is that we became rich enough to eat holiday food every day. And as other parts of the...

Counting Carbs: Take the total carbs. Subtract the fiber, and you get “Net Carbs”. Add, the total sugar, and then add the “added sugar”. For example, the bread i found at my sisters house: 20-g per slice, 2-g of fiber, 3-g of sugar, 3-g of which is added sugar. 20-2=18. 18+3=21. Plus 3...

Is there a scale nearby? If I had questions about weight on my tractor, I’d run the mile to the scales, and weigh It. Then I’d drop the FEL, and find out how much it weighs. If I had a backhoe, I’d drop it to find out how much it weighs.

You test fuses, using a continuity tester. A good fuse should have continuity, (low resistance) and a bad fuse should have infinite resistance

Is the return line from the injector clear and working right??

I would start with the injectors. If the other two are getting fuel in the correct amourt to run, than I doubt it is the pump. The pump is simply a cam with some followers which are the pump cylinders. Check around for Mitsubishi S3L parts. there is a guy offering the complete set of three...

And by laminating as needed, you could press in structural components as needed. Want a book shelf to hold five feet of books without sagging: Roll a lip int the front and back of the shelf to stiffen it up.

The one in the living room, on the rear occasions Dad thought there was something on worth watching. My older brother upset Dad by lipping off about beign smart enough he didn’t need to do his Algebra homework. Dad’s response was to pull the back of the TV off, then pull all of the tubes...

Get ahold of some inner tubes And build an air pressure clamp system. Maximum vacuum is less than 15-psi. You could build an air pressure clamping system and get close to 100-psi pretty easily, and could go higher with a bit of design effort.

My Dad made some arched beams, with thin laminations and resorcinol glue back in the late fifties. And, that is about the only type of thing which would convince me to attempt gluing up anything even remotely similar to plywood. By the time up value your time at anything, it will always be...

The old gusseted channel frames, were still viable when the body had rusted to the point you couldn’t keep it attached to the frame.

One of my early memories is bing out with my uncle, and he had been pounding away at the hole for quite a while, trying to bust through a basalt layer. The well made a strange noise and the cable on the spudder went slack. He grabbed me and we dove under the truck. A moment or two later...

And here I was wondering where my Holley Metering Jet tap is

Back in my misspent youth, my uncle showed me how to fracture rock down hole with dynamite. Sometimes it took more than one application. Generally pretty messy, because water shot out out the top of the column. We did one deep well explosively in Las Vegas, and it worked pretty well. But...

The problem many small tractors have with their controls, and the over sensitivity, is because most valve manufacturers desing their tractor valves for 10 to 13-gpm flows, and larger. I have only seen one loader valve rated for 5-gpm. Most smaller tractors have pumps that are only capable of...

I don’t see an option other than a porous fill. The ground looks like it is below water at high water, in flood years, and has small shallow flow channels between large clumps of woody vegetation. For a pipe to work and not just silt up, you have to have some where for the water to flow freely...

I learned the lesson, when my Mom started to get older, and she had me cover over the sunken living room and get all the first floor on one level. Then, six months later she had me convert the two car garage into a studio apartment, because going up the stairs scared her. Twenty years...

I recommend that you learn at least enough, to understand what and how needs to be done. I have a small Hobart wire feed, and can sort of make a decent bead. But a lot of what i learned at the outreach classes at the high school, was how to get things ready to weld. If I have a non...

I’m about half way through designing an ADA compliant senior home for my older sister. One level, roll in shower, cabinets with an extra drawer layer on top, which can be removed to drop the counter tops, and the under sink plumbing arranged to go directly back and the toe kick removable, to...

Have you looked into Structural Insulated Panels (SIPs)? If you have a contractor they go up really fast, and you are dried in shortly after that. You don’t have to hunt down framing crews, and then insulators. Biggest issue is if your electricians and plumbers haven’t built with, their...

What my Brother did. Build a shop with a restroom. Put RV next to it and hook up the water and power. Build a “Lounge Area” at the end of the shop with the office/restroom/break room. Living space which isn’t. Use the shop as storage and assemblies area during the build of the house. Set...

Had a guy get a broken neck a few years back. They decided to push over hazard trees in a campground with an excavator. Tree didn’t fall the direction it was pushed. Went sideways, and hit the cab of the truck he was in, and collapsed the roof onto him. He said he saw it coming, but still...

Do you have a power to the rear valve on your’s? If not, there is a spring return, non-detent valve on eBay. Not the complete kit, just the valve, so you would have to get it plumbed on your own. But, even buying thee plumbing separate, it would still be about half of what I spent to by the...

The literature on the valve shows two different flow diagrams as available from the factory, suing the Sam body. You order what you want/need by option codes The open center, uses P1 in, and T1 out, and the Power Beyond adapter screwed into P4, with metal plugs screwed into all the ports the...

Don’t think it is photo shopped. If you concentrate on the limb bases, you can see the dark base from the beginning on, and watch it break loose as the limb breaks loose and begins to appear in view. And, that whole tree line is dead/dying Lombardi Poplars. Which were planted by the Soil...

Is there a latching power beyond valve which fed the backhoe, and is still positioned to feed the backhoe? Everything I‘ve seen, having the oil running to the backhoe, prevents it from feeding the 3-point.

He has the valve for my TYM T233, which only has a 5-gpm pump. It is an 11-gpm valve with float. Power beyond adapter already installed. Unless someone bought them since this morning. eBay Item #295513385283

I found some old Nimco Literature, from the generation between, the generation I have, and eh current generation. They say the valve can be configured two ways. And open center setup, which uses T1. A closed center load sensing configuration, which uses T2. I’m still going to see if they are...

When current runs through the coil on a solenoid, a magnet is field is generated which pushes on a metal rod in the center, and operating the valve. Your “buttons” are the end of that rod, and you are moving it by hand. To actuate whatever your valve has in to regulate the hydraulics.

Can’t say with certainty, but it looks like your controller is all electric, potentiometer handle, and you have electric solenoid actuators. The “buttons” are the end of you solenoid rods and you push them in to simulate the coil actuating. I have no idea where you would track down spare parts.

Get, a good structural review. The exterior wall could be resisting wind shear, and cutting big holes in it could compromise the structure. It would be worth having an Engineer take a look at it.

There is a guy on eBAy with some NOS Nimco valves. i bought one off him because it is the one OEM valve for my little TYM. Has them in “medium” and “large” tractor sizes also. Search nimco, in hydraulics if you are interested.

There is a spot on both sides of the body, with the T for tank cast in. I assumed they connect within the body. Guess, I should pull both plugs and see if I can blow air between them.

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I bought a second loader valve for my tractor to operate the top and float on the 3-Pt. I have the mounting and hydraulic connections figured out, pretty much just follow thee picture from the Summit Site The only question I have, is: Can I run the tank line on the first valve into one of...

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