Could there be a temp differential involved?
Unhooking the QC cold. They warm a bit in the sun. Hard to connect. Pull in garage, shade, cool, click and lock.
I don't think the temp was the issue because I had tractor just barely out of the door and pulled in, got off tractor and went straight to connector and pushed it on when the blue one connected. Most of my connects and disconnects were in the garage and it sure wasn't cool.
I was soaking my tshirt. But I will try to do connects and disconnects when it's cool because that makes sense to me that heat can cause expansion of fluids.
Itimswi
Re: Squealing BX2660
John,
When you remove the BH or FEL, turn the engine off and release all hydro pressure from the item you are removing. Move the joysticks in all directions, you will notice the implement relax, then remove the QC's. You may have had excessive residual pressure in the system. I do this every time I uninstall these items.
I had done that when I took the bucket off about 6 weeks ago. When I reinstalled the bucket and worked it for an hour os so, it started squealing then the next day fel and 3 ph wouldn't do anything.
I had taken a mowing deck off of one of my previous tractors, I believe it was the BX2200. I reattached the deck and hooked the drive shaft back up. Later there was this horrible sound and oil pouring out. The drive shaft had came loose and hit the oil filter. From then on I made sure the connector clicked tight/locking ring snapped locked on the drive shaft, not just connected.
Guess I'm now going to always make sure QC's "click" locked. Maybe they were together enough to run and sucked some air into system and when the tractor was turned off the hoses relaxed enough "which you can see them do when you turn the tractor off" to not be connected enough to operate and I was never getting them attached when I kept putting them back on. I now believe this is what happened so you'all need to make sure your QC's click locked when you reattach your hoses. I know I will.
Steve Barlow said sometimes a mowing deck will come up to high and sort of lock up. I had got hung up a bit on a rock and that may be why my mowing deck/3ph would not come down so could have been 2 different issues that happened at the same time. I did stand on 3ph arms and step on deck a few times which may have released them.
Thanks to all for input.