Videos of New PT425 Arriving/Unloading

[Clumber]

I don't know if this has been mentioned, but have you by any chance had dirt on the male connectors or connector and tried to hook it up. You may have done this without even paying attention [happens to all of us at some time], but any way when you tried to hook it up maybe dirt has got behind the little bearings in the female part of the coupling and that little bit of dirt is holding you off.

The part of the coupling that pulls back has a small groove in it that lets the bearings drop back in it and that will allow the coupling to connect. If there is a little bit of trash of some kind in that groove that could be your problem.

I believe you are trying to hook up a snow thrower, is it a hydraulic motor that your are trying to hook up or is it the quick attach circuit? I was just curious.

I am going to try to describe something that I don't know if I can, but here goes anyway. You know when you are pulling a cork out of a bottle, you rock the cork back and forth but hold the bottle still or rock the bottle in the opposite direction, well those fittings are close fitting but sometimes you can do a little of that type rocking to help get it to slide up on or in the fitting. I surely hope this helps, if not I'll keep thinking. You might have to get some kind of mechanical device made up that will help you to seat the couplings, but there is a risk of damaging the coupling that way. If there is dirt in the male coupling that is holding you off you might be able to flush it out with wd40 using the straw and spraying back in the female coupling with the ring pulled back, spraying directly on those little bearings.

I try to inspect the connectors before connecting. I think that dirt in the connectors is not the issue. Yesterday I was able to reconnect the QA plate hoses without having to hold down the Aux lever. I do jiggle them a bit while pushing them together.

What I was doing: I had been using the snow thrower for two hours. I attempted to unattached the thrower and attache the power sweeper. The thrower has two hyd circuits: the main 1/2" PTO circuit drives the auger and the stage two motor; the chute activator is driven by the 1/4" Aux circuit. I had disconnected the Thrower Aux lines and was trying to reconnect QA plate hoses to the Aux circuit so I could unattach the Thrower. As I reported, we had to hold down the Aux lever and push the connectors on at the same time to effect a locked connection.

 

[toy]

It is good that you are watching to keep dirt out of your quick couplings. When you are putting off an attachment that don't use the quick attachment circuit you work the lever to release the attachment and then you disconnect from the attachment and then you go and attach to an implement that has a hydraulic cylinder after you have attached it to the quick attach plate and ready to disconnect the hoses from the quick attach, do you shut the machine off and with the machine off do you then work the lever back and forth a few times before disconnecting the quick attach hoses and then disconnecting the quick attach and then hooking up the attachment to the quick attach hoses? If you are doing it that way then okay but if not when you shut off the machine there is some pressure on the hoses to the quick attach and when you disconnect without letting the pressure bleed off then you are leaving some pressure on the hoses and the cylinder to the quick attach and that will add to or cause difficulty in reconnecting the quick attach the next time. You are probably doing it in this order but thought I would go through it again just in case, hope you get it figured out soon and good luck.

 

[MossRoad]

I try to inspect the connectors before connecting. I think that dirt in the connectors is not the issue. Yesterday I was able to reconnect the QA plate hoses without having to hold down the Aux lever. I do jiggle them a bit while pushing them together.

What I was doing: I had been using the snow thrower for two hours. I attempted to unattached the thrower and attache the power sweeper. The thrower has two hyd circuits: the main 1/2" PTO circuit drives the auger and the stage two motor; the chute activator is driven by the 1/4" Aux circuit. I had disconnected the Thrower Aux lines and was trying to reconnect QA plate hoses to the Aux circuit so I could unattach the Thrower. As I reported, we had to hold down the Aux lever and push the connectors on at the same time to effect a locked connection.

Have you tried idling back the tractor, operate the AUX PTO lever a couple times and leave the device (plow, chute, etc...) centered, then shut off the tractor, then operate the AUX PTO lever a couple more times? I find that if I leave the device set to one end of travel I can bind the quick connect couplers. Hope that helps.

 

[Clumber]

It is good that you are watching to keep dirt out of your quick couplings. When you are putting off an attachment that don't use the quick attachment circuit you work the lever to release the attachment and then you disconnect from the attachment and then you go and attach to an implement that has a hydraulic cylinder after you have attached it to the quick attach plate and ready to disconnect the hoses from the quick attach, do you shut the machine off and with the machine off do you then work the lever back and forth a few times before disconnecting the quick attach hoses and then disconnecting the quick attach and then hooking up the attachment to the quick attach hoses? If you are doing it that way then okay but if not when you shut off the machine there is some pressure on the hoses to the quick attach and when you disconnect without letting the pressure bleed off then you are leaving some pressure on the hoses and the cylinder to the quick attach and that will add to or cause difficulty in reconnecting the quick attach the next time. You are probably doing it in this order but thought I would go through it again just in case, hope you get it figured out soon and good luck.

Thanks Toy for posting this. These are really good points. No I was not following that process. I was only "cycling" the Aux lever if I had a problem when trying to connect. I think that not doing this is what caused the last issue I described earlier.

Patrick

 

[toy]

You're welcome , hope it gets you to smooth sailing with the pt and you get to really enjoy it. I have a 425 also it is a 2003 model, bought it the last of the year either in September or October. Mine has the higher torque wheel motors Koehler engine and the gas tank is built into the hood, it makes filling it up a lot easier, and when the hood is raised the gas tank is not in the engine compartment taking up room so you have more room to work on it.

 

[KentT]

You're welcome , hope it gets you to smooth sailing with the pt and you get to really enjoy it. I have a 425 also it is a 2003 model, bought it the last of the year either in September or October. Mine has the higher torque wheel motors Koehler engine and the gas tank is built into the hood, it makes filling it up a lot easier, and when the hood is raised the gas tank is not in the engine compartment taking up room so you have more room to work on it.

IMO, you just may have the best configuration of the 425 that they've made. I wouldn't trade the Kohler for the Robin, at all, and you've got the higher torque wheel motors.

Does yours have 54" of lift on the lift arms or 60" like the newer ones?

 

[Marks481]

...and the gas tank is built into the hood, it makes filling it up a lot easier, and when the hood is raised the gas tank is not in the engine compartment taking up room so you have more room to work on it.

Does any gas spill out of the gas cap when you have the hood up? Does it have vented gas cap, or is there some other vent arrangement?

 

[toy]

IMO, you just may have the best configuration of the 425 that they've made. I wouldn't trade the Kohler for the Robin, at all, and you've got the higher torque wheel motors.

Does yours have 54" of lift on the lift arms or 60" like the newer ones?

Mine has the 60 inch lift which I am thankful for.

On your second post I did initially have problems with gas seeping out which was a concern to me, but at the time I was digging a septic tank hole so it was being run on a slope. I replaced the cork gasket and that didn't stop it[ the replacement gasket was made out of a solid cardboard]. I decided to buy a new cap for it and the new one had cork and I haven't had any problems with that one. On a side note I don't fill it as full as I was initially filling it.

I like the arrangement of mine the best also and filling it up with one of those ventles gas cans is a lot easier with the arrangement that I have, others that have the same arrangement vehemently disagree tho but to each his own.

 

[toy]

Well I was having a little lapse in attention Kent and Tim in Ct. When I fill it up I raise the hood to fill it that makes the opening of the gas tank vertical instead of horizontal and as such you can't fill it any more than the bottom of the fill up hole and that is how I make sure I don't overfill it, works great for me.

 

[Clumber]

Here are some quick photos of the engine tub of tne new machine. I thought it might be interesting to compare with earlier 425s.