Jose G
Silver Member
Hi guys,
I enjoy my DK45SE but did a lot of loader work lately and I find my box blade to be too light (Walco/Douglas HD), I scared the **** out of me while lifting a full bucket of wet sand... the tractor started to lean on the right and.. it just stopped, by chance no bird landed on my hood!
1st mod on the tractor... filling all the tires of windshield washer fluid. (next summer, concrete ballast..)
I bought a 55 Gallon drum of -40 degres locally and found the little filling valve with the pressure release off ebay, I had an old fuel pump off a Dodge neon 1998 laying in a spare parts bin, 20 feet of hoses, some fittings and I was set.
my tires are AG R1 (stock one), I started to fill the rear right one... 20 minutes later, the drum was down to 30 gallons and the fluid level wasn't near being where I wanted it to be... I turned the wheel to let drip the fluid out (to check the level) and It started to drip at ~ 3 O'clock, so it kind of 2/3 full of where I want it to be...
since I had only 1 drum, I decided to put 2-3 more gallons in the right tire and put the rest in the left tire to even both wheel... I'll get another drum this week to finish the job, I had in mind I could fill all four tires with only one drum but I was soo wrong!!
one 55 gallons drum is 85 $ cdn so it's cheap stuff, I should have bought 2... hope to finish this ASAP.
2nd mod on the list (winter work for next summer) will be 2 maybe 3 remote valves on the FEL... still debating the best way to do this ?
2 diverter valve hooked on my FEL valve and a T off the rear Detent remote (needed for the future Hyd. motor) or one diverter + 2 T off the current rear remotes? hard line under the tractor or flexible?... and I still need to find a way to add switches on my current joystick or maybe just change the handle?
I'm currently building a front sickle bar driven by an hydraulic motor with 2 hydraulic cylinders, one for a pivot and another one to extend the bar further to the right (this one is not sure yet).
any mod you guys did on your Kioti? anyone tried a led bar by any chance ?
thanks in advance for your opinion/knowledge
Jose G.
I enjoy my DK45SE but did a lot of loader work lately and I find my box blade to be too light (Walco/Douglas HD), I scared the **** out of me while lifting a full bucket of wet sand... the tractor started to lean on the right and.. it just stopped, by chance no bird landed on my hood!
1st mod on the tractor... filling all the tires of windshield washer fluid. (next summer, concrete ballast..)
I bought a 55 Gallon drum of -40 degres locally and found the little filling valve with the pressure release off ebay, I had an old fuel pump off a Dodge neon 1998 laying in a spare parts bin, 20 feet of hoses, some fittings and I was set.
my tires are AG R1 (stock one), I started to fill the rear right one... 20 minutes later, the drum was down to 30 gallons and the fluid level wasn't near being where I wanted it to be... I turned the wheel to let drip the fluid out (to check the level) and It started to drip at ~ 3 O'clock, so it kind of 2/3 full of where I want it to be...
since I had only 1 drum, I decided to put 2-3 more gallons in the right tire and put the rest in the left tire to even both wheel... I'll get another drum this week to finish the job, I had in mind I could fill all four tires with only one drum but I was soo wrong!!
one 55 gallons drum is 85 $ cdn so it's cheap stuff, I should have bought 2... hope to finish this ASAP.
2nd mod on the list (winter work for next summer) will be 2 maybe 3 remote valves on the FEL... still debating the best way to do this ?
2 diverter valve hooked on my FEL valve and a T off the rear Detent remote (needed for the future Hyd. motor) or one diverter + 2 T off the current rear remotes? hard line under the tractor or flexible?... and I still need to find a way to add switches on my current joystick or maybe just change the handle?
I'm currently building a front sickle bar driven by an hydraulic motor with 2 hydraulic cylinders, one for a pivot and another one to extend the bar further to the right (this one is not sure yet).
any mod you guys did on your Kioti? anyone tried a led bar by any chance ?
thanks in advance for your opinion/knowledge
Jose G.