B7500 FEL Help for Newbie

[Moman]

Greetings, I've been reading tons of great posts here and thanks to everyone for some great tips.

I picked up a used B7500 with a Woods 1006 FEL a couple of months ago and have been doing some great work with it around the building where I work and also cleaning out around the lake where I live.

Yesterday I decided to see if I could remove the FEL to do some tight mowing around the trees. Using the manual that came with it I was able to easily set it up and slip the tractor back. Three quick disconnect hoses made quick work of the hydraulics.

My problem came when I attempted to operate the boxblade after I had removed the FEL. One of the three lines that are now disconnected builds up huge pressure and begins flowing hydraulic fluid out onto the ground. Was I supposed to take this longish hydraulic hose and connect it somewhere to complete a circuit so that all the pressure doesn't hit the unconnected quick disconnect? Or do I just have a bad hose that should hold the pressure and doesn't?

Thanks!

 

[TresCrows]

I would stop operating the tractor until you find out what is going on. Since you bought a used unit with a non standard FEL it may have operating procedures different from a Kubota unit. I suspect you need to reconnect one of those lines to complete a circuit. Not doing so could damage the tractor--realy badly. J

 

[snowman]

I have a B7500 with a Kubota FEL.

When I unhook my FEL, the hoses stay with the FEL. It sounds like yours hoses stay on the tractor. Since I assume that the quick connect is only on one end of the hose, you presumably unhooked the correct end.

Since it would seem odd that you would have hoses flapping around while working with the tractor, they probably do need to be reconnected somewhere as Trescrows said.

Simplest thing to do would be to ask the person that you bought it from how to do it.

Good luck.

 

[Egon]

My Kubota loader has four quick disconnects for the hozes to the FEL. The hozes stay on the loader. The control valve has two lines from the hydraulic block and one return line back to the top of the hydro case.
I'd reverse the lines so they stay on the loader and follow previous advice to ensure all is proper.

Egon

 

[Moman]

The Woods unit has three hoses that go to the tractor, 2 of them disconnect on the tractor side and stay with the FEL when it is removed, and one (the one in question) stays on the tractor and disconnects at the loader side, that is why I suspect that it has to loop back into the tractor.

I didn't operate the tractor with it off, other than the 10 seconds to see that it was leaking that way. As soon as I saw what it was going on, I just hooked the FEL back up till I could find an answer.

I'll chase down the previous owner or run out to the place where he bought it and ask them. (the dealer installed it and it still has two years on the warranty)

thanks guys, happy tractoring

 

[theboman]

I have a B7500 and a Woods 1006. Two of those 3 hoses connect back together when the FEL is off. One has a Male one has a Female fitting.

 

[B2400]

It sound as if your valve is not of the " Power Beyond" type and thus you must loop the hydraulics to continue the circuit. A power beyond valve will have 6 lines running from it, 2 which constantly flow fluid to provide the 3pt with pressure and 4 for the FEL.