Hydrailic quick connect question

[rasorbackq]

Does it matter which way the quick connects are facing on a hydraulic hose.
Installed a grapple clamp yesterday and within 10 minutes the male end was broken off just above the row of bearing in the female . Thought I had lots of hose so no stress that way.

 

[currierej]

I don't think it matters, I installed mine with the male ends on the cylinder side

 

[kennyd]

Sounds like your hoses are to short, not a QC problem unless it was just defective from the start.

 

[teg]

The length between Curl and Rollback of the loader is pretty LONG... I would measure it again...

 

[ovrszd]

Grapple hoses have to be stupid long. Possibly drooping down and touching or almost touching the ground when the bucket is sitting flat on the ground. I've considered different methods of holding these hoses up off the ground but haven't followed thru with any.

All factory systems put the female end of the coupler toward the pressure source. Male end toward the powered cylinder or attachment.

I remove my Grapple frequently. I mounted one female and one male to the tractor. Cylinders hoses have one female and one male. No confusion when recoupling.

 

[BeezFun]

Does it matter which way the quick connects are facing on a hydraulic hose.

I like the male end to be on whichever component is most likely to fall in the dirt. It's much easier cleaning the male end than it is the female end.

 

[Redbug]

Grapple hoses have to be stupid long. Possibly drooping down and touching or almost touching the ground when the bucket is sitting flat on the ground. I've considered different methods of holding these hoses up off the ground but haven't followed thru with any.

All factory systems put the female end of the coupler toward the pressure source. Male end toward the powered cylinder or attachment.

I remove my Grapple frequently. I mounted one female and one male to the tractor. Cylinders hoses have one female and one male. No confusion when recoupling.

That's exactly what I do as well. Then, when you have the grapple unhooked you can keep both hyd ends on the grapple plugged into each other, (same with the tractor side), things stay clean and the pressures stay even.