eepete
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I'm trying to locate a tilt cylinder for my 3PH on my 4x20 tractor. A previous thread I started detailed getting my hydraulic top link working, this is the 2nd half of a top and tilt (TnT) project. The hydraulic top link is great, I just need to get a .030 orifice for it, it can move a bit too fast for my liking.
I measured my adjustable screw arm and fully retracted it's 17.5" center to center. At this fully retracted position, everything is level. It can extend about 5.5" to a length of 23". When I used this adjustable side on my 6' box blade, I never put more than an inch of extension on it. That gave me a lot of tilt.
My JD dealer has a cylinder that is 3.5" outside diameter, a 1.5" diameter rod, and a travel range of 3". Fully retracted it is 17.5". The 'U' shaped end of it that goes on the draft arms has 4 sets of holes in it, and I would use the ones closes to the cylinder and leave the next set of holes free just in case. I would cut the remainder off. It looks like this cylinder is made for a number of different types of tractors.
So, my current setup has a manual range of 17.5" to 23", but I've only used 1" of adjustment. Note that I can only tilt down on the right hand side of the tractor, I can not tilt the "other way" from level with this manual adjustment. The cylinder has a range of 17.5 to 21.5", and would also only tilt in only one direction if I just replaced my manually adjustable with the cylinder.
Questions:
1) Isn't it desirable to have a TnT that can tilt both ways?
2) If I swap the manually adjustable to the other side, and extend it 1.5", I can get 1.5" of tilt at the arms in either direction. This looks like about a foot of tilt on the far end of the box blade. So the question is, on the 4000 series, how much travel (stroke) does the tilt cylinder need?
3) Is putting the old manually adjustable cylinder on the other side and leaving it out by 1.5" an OK way to get tilt in both directions?
4) Is the 1.5" cylinder rod diameter OK for the 4250 (60HP) tractor?
5) Any other specific suggestions for a cylinder that I could get?
I hope that Steve (jenkinsph) will be all over this and started a new thread for those facing the same problem down the road. One other ancillary tidbit- I have an iMatch on order for this.
Pete
I measured my adjustable screw arm and fully retracted it's 17.5" center to center. At this fully retracted position, everything is level. It can extend about 5.5" to a length of 23". When I used this adjustable side on my 6' box blade, I never put more than an inch of extension on it. That gave me a lot of tilt.
My JD dealer has a cylinder that is 3.5" outside diameter, a 1.5" diameter rod, and a travel range of 3". Fully retracted it is 17.5". The 'U' shaped end of it that goes on the draft arms has 4 sets of holes in it, and I would use the ones closes to the cylinder and leave the next set of holes free just in case. I would cut the remainder off. It looks like this cylinder is made for a number of different types of tractors.
So, my current setup has a manual range of 17.5" to 23", but I've only used 1" of adjustment. Note that I can only tilt down on the right hand side of the tractor, I can not tilt the "other way" from level with this manual adjustment. The cylinder has a range of 17.5 to 21.5", and would also only tilt in only one direction if I just replaced my manually adjustable with the cylinder.
Questions:
1) Isn't it desirable to have a TnT that can tilt both ways?
2) If I swap the manually adjustable to the other side, and extend it 1.5", I can get 1.5" of tilt at the arms in either direction. This looks like about a foot of tilt on the far end of the box blade. So the question is, on the 4000 series, how much travel (stroke) does the tilt cylinder need?
3) Is putting the old manually adjustable cylinder on the other side and leaving it out by 1.5" an OK way to get tilt in both directions?
4) Is the 1.5" cylinder rod diameter OK for the 4250 (60HP) tractor?
5) Any other specific suggestions for a cylinder that I could get?
I hope that Steve (jenkinsph) will be all over this and started a new thread for those facing the same problem down the road. One other ancillary tidbit- I have an iMatch on order for this.
Pete
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