Nearly broke a hydro line on my C50 FEL!!!

MicroPilot · Jun 29, 2004

I removed my loader for the first time tonight and nearly broke a hydraulic line!

On the right side of the loader arms there is a T connector that sticks out to the left into the area between the arms. The brush guard got caught on this and would have ripped it loose if I hadn't been going very slow. Is this the normal way these loaders are plumbed? I doubt it just because of what I experienced. Can I just turn this T connector out of the way? I'm not familiar with how connections are made with hydraulic plumbing. I guess I might need to post a pic to show what I'm talking about.

SHIFTY · Jun 30, 2004

You should be able to loosen the fittings with the engine off and then you can reposition the fitting,Their is not too much clearance on the hard lines on many of the compact tractor loaders.

MicroPilot · Jul 1, 2004

Thanks Shifty, thats exactly what I did. Another question: Being this is a Korean tractor, are most of the nuts and bolts metric, or is there a mix of SAE and metric?