Adding rear remotes to my 1920

fried1765 · Oct 15, 2018

Whitbread said:
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?

Whitbread · Oct 16, 2018

fried1765 said:
"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?

Then pull all 3 lines from the manifold that feed the FEL, crank the tractor and observe which port on the manifold fluid comes out of. Put that line back on, that's the feed to the FEL valve. Now crank again, fluid should come out of one of the two lines that you have left disconnected. Whichever line has fluid come out of it with authority, that's the line you need to feed your remote valve with. Run the return from the remote valve to where that line returned on the manifold. Put the third line back where it came from.

fried1765 · Oct 16, 2018

Whitbread said:
Then pull all 3 lines from the manifold that feed the FEL, crank the tractor and observe which port on the manifold fluid comes out of. Put that line back on, that's the feed to the FEL valve. Now crank again, fluid should come out of one of the two lines that you have left disconnected. Whichever line has fluid come out of it with authority, that's the line you need to feed your remote valve with. Run the return from the remote valve to where that line returned on the manifold. Put the third line back where it came from.

Thank you!
I shall try that!