control mystery

54rover · May 29, 2017

I recently purchased an aftermarket loader for my ford 1210. I installed the loader and after fiddling with hose connections got everything working correctly. Ran the loader for about a week pretty regularly and all worked fine. Two days ago I moved some stones to a pad I'm building. Lowered the loader to just above ground and floated it to sit it on ground. I got back in tractor after unloading stones. Lifted the bucked, went a little to far so I placed the joystick in down position and the loader raised up??? Double/triple checked and loader is raising up at both the raise and lower position. Put it to float and nothing happens. I tried the roll back function and this did not work either, dump function is fine. Shut tractor down and placed joystick in float position and bucket did lower although VERY VERY slowly, nothing like normal. This has me confused how this could be happening, very odd! It happened all of a sudden no issues at all before hand.
Any ideas???

Rosher18 · May 29, 2017

Depending on the hose plumbing and system type, your 3 point hudraulics could be affecting the loader function. On my Kubota, if I have a heavy load on the 3PT or the lever and 3pt positions don't match exactly, the raise/lower functions act strangely. It will load up and refuse to lower. Is this a possibility?

54rover · May 29, 2017

Rosner THANKS!!
I turned down the rate limiter to off to my 3pt. Opened this back up and everything is working as should be!! It seemed like a return restriction but didn't think the limiter was in series with loader hydraulics. THANKS again!!!