Or you could test pressure by interrupting the pressure input to each motor with a hydraulic "Tee" and mounting a inexpensive 5000 psi gauge on both motors. The gauges can stay there. Since relief valves are adjustable, the gauges would allow you to adjust as necessary.
The only slight problem in putting on guages is ordering the Tee with the right threads.
Question... (this has been on my mind and we have company in a couple weeks to this has risen in 'my' priority.....but not sure of the wife's.... her priority might be to make sure the petunia's are planted...
Anyway.... I might just buy some gauges and maybe leave them in place. Which brings me to a question....
I'm sure I can go to a shop and get a requisite Tee to fit. If the pressures are 2500 psi, my recollection is I'd want to get a gauge that maxes at double that amount, so a 5000 psi?
Aside from that.... get the parts, assemble and install. What then? If the break away is say, 2500 psi but, at idle (remember, this is on a 15'
mower so I'm not inherently comfortable sitting on top while it's screaming at PTO speeds)
Anyway, at blade engagement speed, I'd NOT expect the pressure to be 2500..... so do you crank it up to PTO speed to see where it registers? Do I get someone to drive the tractor while I'm sitting on the mower (yikes) and have them go into some dense growth which will then strain the limits more than no load on the blades?
Not sure how comfortable I am yet with this idea.... so am just trying to understand mechanically how it might be done.
Why?
Thus far, can't find anyone local (to the degree I've had time to try) that can test/set these. if I can incorporate them into the pumps full time, then I'm ok with that (until I smash one and decide it was a bad idea HA!)
Now that I'm thinking out loud about this..... it might make sense....something I read.
I have a memory that in the manual, to test, they recommend to CHAIN the blade carrier to a stump or something that won't budge.... then engage the PTO. I'm going to go back to see if I can find that in the manual. I might certainly be wrong but it does seem to me that you need to stress it to get it up to pressure a bit, no??
