fried1765
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- Kubota L48 TLB, Ford 1920 FEL, 8N Ford, Gravely 12 HP "Professional", 48" SCAG Liberty
He tapped into the wrong line, that's the only explanation for the behavior you are experiencing. I plumbed my 1620 exactly as I've described (and shown in my thread here in this section) and my remotes work perfectly without having to touch the loader valve.
What you need to do is some redneck hydraulic flow testing. Follow the pressure line coming off of the pump. It should run to a manifold of some sort. There should be two lines from the manifold to the FEL valve. Remove one of the two lines and crank, but don't start, the tractor. Fluid should pump out of either the manifold or the line. You want the fluid to flow out of the line if you want your remote valve to be downstream of the FEL valve. So when you've established which line is the return, now run that to your remote valve and run its return to where you just disconnected the line at the manifold.
Does that make sense?
"there should be two lines from the manifold to the FEL"
Just checked.
Not so on my 1920!
There are THREE lines from the manifold block to the FEL, and 4 more lines from the FEL valve itself, fwd to the loader.
Ideas?