Flat face hyd. coupling "pressure release" tool

[aeblank]

Hey, that'd be cool!

I was figuring on "manifolding" all connections together with a valve (or a vent, for that matter).

I'm tired of fighting that stupid thing!

 

[kennyd]

Hey, that'd be cool!

I was figuring on "manifolding" all connections together with a valve (or a vent, for that matter).

I'm tired of fighting that stupid thing!

Email sent

 

[aeblank]

Email returned. Thanks!

For the sake of the discussion, this is what I had in mind.
I am certainly not locked into this design, but it'd work. Maybe there is a less fitting intensive design. I've seen those air manifolds (http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51avnKHPgDL._SX342_.jpg) but it's a 3-up with a spot for a valve, not a 4-up. Plus I dunno about room for the other fitting half.

This is 3/8 fittings and nipples, probably just from Home Depot. 1" nipples appear to be plenty large and give room for the mating fittings.

 

[jmc]

Hope you are not using hardware designed for natural gas pressure and water pressure for 2500 PSI?

 

[kennyd]

Hope you are not using hardware designed for natural gas pressure and water pressure for 2500 PSI?

This manifold is not built to hold pressure...but to rather relieve or keep pressure from building in the first place. It's a "antipressure" device

 

[jmc]

This manifold is not built to hold pressure...but to rather relieve or keep pressure from building in the first place. It's a "antipressure" device

Please forget that I posted that!

 

[busy dad]

An interesting solution.. I remember an older fellow who added a tee with a high pressure tap . It was plumbed with a small line to the tank . He found that hooking up with pressure was too much for his strength .. He would crack the tap and excess pressure was bled off ...

 

[dstig1]

I have fought this issue since I first added my 3rd function 5 yrs ago or so on my first tractor (don't recall exactly when...) Everyone always chimes in with the same advice, which is apparently a common issue: The implement heated up and built pressure in the sun, or the tractor did, etc. This is not the case. I could disconnect the grapple on my 3rd function, then immediately try to reconnect it (using all proper procedures for pressure release, etc) and you could not do it. No sitting in the sun, or months to have pressures change, I mean within seconds. I finally cried uncle and built a reliever for myself. This is a few pipe fittings and a male coupler on one end, and a female coupler on the other end. I attached each coupler to a 3" or so pipe, and then put a 4-way "tee" fitting in the middle with a couple short pipes sticking out as handles (I left the handle out on one, and it worked fine too, FYI). NOTE - the handles are not capped, so this is open to the atmosphere. Push this onto any fitting that is fighting you and you will spit a little fluid into the pipe and it will now go together. I stuff a paper towel in there to soak up the fluid, and drain on occasion. This has been true now for 2 different tractors, so it is not me going insane, it is not the tractor, it is not the temperature differential, etc. These things just allow pressure to remain that will not allow you to re-connect without something to relieve it.

 

[EddieWalker]

I fought mine for years and finally realized that instead of spending all that time releasing the pressure and getting them either connected or un connected, it would be faster and easier to just take them off and screw the hoses together when connecting them, and then unscrew them when I take off my grapple. I then screw plugs into the ends of the lines. Easy, fast and simple.

Eddie

 

[aeblank]

Interesting comments.
I hope what I'm doing actually solves my issues.

 

[BX tent guy]

Interesting comments.
I hope what I'm doing actually solves my issues.

Switch everything over to this.

 

[BX tent guy]

I have that connector on an Avant 528. It works with pressure in the lines, motor running, you can't hook it up backwards.

 

[aeblank]

What is it?
I mean, I know it's a bulkhead with a handle that makes it assemble, but what make/model/type/etc.
Details man, details!

I still have hopes for my manifold, but that thing certainly is cool.

 

[BX tent guy]

What is it?
I mean, I know it's a bulkhead with a handle that makes it assemble, but what make/model/type/etc.
Details man, details!

I still have hopes for my manifold, but that thing certainly is cool.

I don't know where you can get it. It's made by a company called "faster" it's Italian. If you find a source let me know, I have not tried to find it.

 

[BX tent guy]

https://youtu.be/mbnpKMSCsB8

 

[HarryN]

You'd think someone would come up with a "Plier" type design to attached those darned quick connects.
Something like this for example. Say with better leverage....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bf3goZo978Y

 

[aeblank]

That's what this thread started out as, till I accidentally hijacked it completely.
Well, pliers to depress the seal in the bottom, to release the pressure.
Hopefully I won't need one now, but if I do, A cheap c-clamp will have to be sacrificed. I'm tired of beating on it.

 

[kennyd]

What is it?
I mean, I know it's a bulkhead with a handle that makes it assemble, but what make/model/type/etc.
Details man, details!

I still have hopes for my manifold, but that thing certainly is cool.

They are made by Faster Hydraulics, and cost $600+. John Deere uses them on some of thier larger machines.

MULTIFASTER

 

[BX tent guy]

They are made by Faster Hydraulics, and cost $600+. John Deere uses them on some of thier larger machines.

MULTIFASTER

I have two implements that use it. I'm thinking of making one set of lines quick disconnect at the implement and then using that set of lines to power a couple other things, a grapple and also a home made log splitter. It'll save some $$.

 

[aeblank]

I have two implements that use it. I'm thinking of making one set of lines quick disconnect at the implement and then using that set of lines to power a couple other things, a grapple and also a home made log splitter. It'll save some $$.

Sad to say I'd be ponying up to maintain the awesomeness. Do you have a supplier that you get 'em from?
Need to go in my "as-if" tractor bookmark folder....