70A Loader oil lines

[955er]

Sorry, did not take.

 

[955er]

Try again

 

[Mechanos]

Thanks.... hard to tell in your pics, but are your oil lines one piece or two piece?

 

[955er]

Two piece. I can get a close up if you want. Just tell me what you need.

I have been following your threads over the last couple of months. You should have one fine tractor when you are done butchering up the other two

Mine has 910 hours and the only piece I replaced was the muffler. The bracket cracked. $250. Save those...

 

[Mechanos]

Thanks 955er.... that should do it.

 

[Mechanos]

Had some free time today, so I took the oil lines off the loader. I see now why the PO bent the upper oil lines all out of shape. Two of the lines on the cross tube were not the correct part for the application... they must have come from a different loader. They were too long. The PO's "fix" for this was to bend a dog-leg in them to take up the extra length. Of course, now they do not terminate in the proper location so he then bent the upper lines all out of shape to get them to meet those two lines on the cross tube.

I'm going to try to make it by the hydraulic shop tomorrow. I will need to have all four cross tube lines re-made. I tried to straighten the two upper line and return them to proper shape, but they were too far gone. The tubing was bent too much... to the point of work hardening and both of them cracked right at the fitting block on the ends. I will have to have both of those lines repaired as well.

 

[Mechanos]

Dropped the oil lines off at the hydraulic shop and told them what I wanted done. When I got the quote, the color drained from face. The counter guy could sense my state of near cardiac distress and offered to discount the price from $440 down to $310. That's still a LOT more than I was expecting it to be, also a heck of a lot cheaper than ordering all new lines from JD for a few dollars less than $600.