Blstr88
Silver Member
I had posted this in the LS forum but someone suggested I try here.
A little back story. I have an LS J2023H, got a front mount snowblower for it this winter season. Halfway through winter I was blowing my driveway and the joystick to lift/lower/angle the blower broke. Pulled the boot off and a small little piece that kinda holds the joystick steady, giving it something to push/pull off of, broke. So I removed the joystick and was able to lift/lower/angle the blower by just pushing/pulling on the valves by hand (or by using a small screwdriver to pull it).
Anyway, started the search for replacement parts...long story short, no replacement parts available, so I bought an entire control lever off of surpluscenter.com for $200.
In the meantime, I noticed when I pushed the valve in all the way to float the snowblower it would float...but the hydraulics would whine, like they were working hard. Basically the same whine as when Im lifting a load with the loader...or using the loader to lift the front tires...except it now just whines like that when its in float mode. As far as I can tell its still floating...doesn't appear to be any down pressure but its hard to tell, the blower is too heavy to just lift by hand anyway really. However if it was pressuring down I think it would have been digging in a lot harder...it appeared to me to still be floating.
Anyway, I had hoped to just replace the entire control valve when the new one showed up...thinking the issue must be with the control valve? Unfortunately the new valve uses SAE hydraulics fittings and my current one uses regular banjo bolts...so they arent compatible (at least not unless I have the fittings on all my hydraulic hoses swapped to SAE). Luckily all the little inner parts I needed to fix the joystick swapped right over perfectly, so the joystick is fixed...however something is still wrong with my float.
Am I right assuming it must be the control valve itself? Any ideas at all where to start?
A little back story. I have an LS J2023H, got a front mount snowblower for it this winter season. Halfway through winter I was blowing my driveway and the joystick to lift/lower/angle the blower broke. Pulled the boot off and a small little piece that kinda holds the joystick steady, giving it something to push/pull off of, broke. So I removed the joystick and was able to lift/lower/angle the blower by just pushing/pulling on the valves by hand (or by using a small screwdriver to pull it).
Anyway, started the search for replacement parts...long story short, no replacement parts available, so I bought an entire control lever off of surpluscenter.com for $200.
In the meantime, I noticed when I pushed the valve in all the way to float the snowblower it would float...but the hydraulics would whine, like they were working hard. Basically the same whine as when Im lifting a load with the loader...or using the loader to lift the front tires...except it now just whines like that when its in float mode. As far as I can tell its still floating...doesn't appear to be any down pressure but its hard to tell, the blower is too heavy to just lift by hand anyway really. However if it was pressuring down I think it would have been digging in a lot harder...it appeared to me to still be floating.
Anyway, I had hoped to just replace the entire control valve when the new one showed up...thinking the issue must be with the control valve? Unfortunately the new valve uses SAE hydraulics fittings and my current one uses regular banjo bolts...so they arent compatible (at least not unless I have the fittings on all my hydraulic hoses swapped to SAE). Luckily all the little inner parts I needed to fix the joystick swapped right over perfectly, so the joystick is fixed...however something is still wrong with my float.
Am I right assuming it must be the control valve itself? Any ideas at all where to start?
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