DK45 Hydraulic Top Link

[DK35vince]

I am curious about the hydraulic top link that you are discussing. What is a hydraulic top link?

The standard top link is replaced with a hydraulic cylinder. With a hydraulic top link you can make adjustments to attachments on the 3 point from your tractor seat while on the go.
Makes a huge differance when working with attachments like boxblades, backblades, Etc.

 

[coolslug]

Thank you for your response to my question Vince. I read a bunch of posts here that mentioned this but until your reply with your pictures I had no idea what it was. Once I get more used to my tractor I will look into getting a hydraulic top link to use with my new box blade.

Don

 

[CajunRider]

Here's my oversized top link. It's a lil big but it works fine for me. I don't have the side hydraulic cylinder so no tilt for me yet.

 

[KIOTI D]

Another newbie question how is this top link controled,i just bought a DK35

 

[rd_macgregor]

My DK45 came equipped with a single pair of rear remotes, controlled by a detented lever just forward of the FEL control. I use the rear remotes in the summer to control my grapple and in the winter to control the chute on my snowblower. Theoretically, I could get by with the single set of remotes, I guess, but adding hydraulic top cyclinder would certainly require adding another remote...two if I wanted both top and tilt cylinders.
Adding remotes is expensive, and I don't feel competent to do this myself. I wonder if adding several at once is more cost effective than just adding one...that is, would the additional ones be a lot cheaper per each if, say, three were being done at once...or, is most of the cost in parts?
BOB

 

[rd_macgregor]

If you put in a cylinder with an oversize bore, you might want to be sure that the control lever is NOT detented; you don't want it to keep extending after you let go of the lever!
BOB

 

[KIOTI D]

My DK 35 came with the single rear remotes and detent control vale, the owners manual does not explain how it works very well . So i should be able to run a top link with what i have. Thanks for the info.

 

[rd_macgregor]

You can run a hydraulic top link with what you have, but the drawbacks will be that you can't use something else hydraulic at from those remotes and you run the risk of extending or retracting the top link more than you wanted to by accidentally clicking into the detent positions. I do this all the time with my grapple and with my snowblower chute rotator; the result with these implements is irritation, but it might be a more dramatic effect with a box blade.

BOB

 

[KIOTI D]

Thanks RD,l hooked up the cylinder and it works great, i do have to watch that it does not go into the detent position.

 

[Kiotisooner]

I installed a hydraulic top link on my Kioti Dk50. I didn't like the way the detent valve worked, so I made the valve a non-detent valve. It works great now and doesn't lock in.