They are called Banjo bolts. The part that the bolt goes through looks like a banjo. Search the term 澱anjo at Discount Hydraulic Hose | Your Online Hydraulic Shop
I do not think you will find an adapter to directly connect those banjo fittings to your new valve. Can you post a couple more pictures of the ends on the hoses to see if they are crimped or possibly threaded onto another fitting on the end of the hose?
I have a feeling that in order to use your new valve, you will have to take all of the hoses that connect to the valve off of the tractor and take them to a shop to have 90 degree SAE fittings crimped on in place of the banjo fittings.
Thanks, makes sense. I can't seem to find any "banjo to SAE" adapters so you might be right.
So...what I did was just cannibalize all the joystick internal connector pieces from the new control valve and reinstalled onto the current valve - everything matched over perfectly. Sucks to have spent $200+ for a few small connector pieces...but those parts alone seem not to be available at all.
Unfortunately I do seem to have a separate issue now...I noticed it the past few times I used my snowblower but didnt think too much of it. Now that the joystick is fixed I guess I should figure out this problem.
When you lift or lower (or curl) the bucket you can hear the hydraulic pump whining a bit...thats normal, its always done that. However now when I push the stick up into "float" mode it continues to whine. The bucket floats down and appears to be floating correctly, but I can hear the hydraulic pump whining as if its working. Normally I dont think it did that...I'd float it and there would be no noise.
Any idea what might be causing that?