rScotty
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- Rural mountains - Colorado
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- Kubota M59, JD530, JD310SG. Restoring Yanmar YM165D
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Does this look like your cab and joystick layout? This is from an online Kubota brochure. You can see a small lever sticking out at the base of the joystick on this one. Doesn't seem quite as obvious as what I was expecting to see based on the parts schematic.
Will be interesting to see what you find when you're able to check it out. Hopefully you just bumped this. Hard to see what else could completely lock up your joystick.
I can see the "valve lock" in that photo. It's the same as the one on our M59. You're right, the valve lock is a feature "to prevent accidental actuation of the loader when the implement is "not in use or during transport."
Pg. 46 in the loader manual under "VALVE LOCK"
The lever itself is sort of small and easily overlooked. It's just a piece of cad-plated metal about an 1/8" thick and an inch wide with a turned down end that sticks out the front of the loader valve control about half way between the top of the control and the floor.
It slides in and out with firm hand pressure.
Sliding it in locks the loader.
Slide it out to unlock the loader for normal use.
So just grab it and pull it out and your loader will work.
It ought to be the other way around to prevent accidently hitting the lever and locking the loader....but it isn't. We've all done it once.
rScotty