muddstopper
Veteran Member
I recently swapped in a 5in cylinder in place of the 4in one I had on my wood splitter. I also added a 28gpm 2stage pump. My splitter valve is rated for 25gpm and hoses and fittings are #12jic in 3/4npt ports. So i know at max flow my valve is probably a little undersized but I dont run the engine at full throttle and probably aint pumping the full 28gpm the pump is capable of. I am wanting to speedup the cyl cylcle times and am thinking that adding a dump valve to the returnside of the cyl would probably be my best and cheapest bet without going for a new control valve. Problem is I havent ever used anytype of dump valve and am not sure exactly how to pump it in. Since I am thinking the dump valve would have to be in line with the retraction side of the cylinder, just how does this work considering this is also the push, high pressure side when trying to split wood. Seems to me that trying to dump returning oil on retraction wpould also dump oil when under pressure. Someone explain this to me please. Right now I am not having a problem with heat, but I usually only work the machine for short periods of time and probably not long enough to get much heat build up, but the heat I will deal with later as modifications continue.