Kubota l295dt loader issue

[Swampfarmer96]

I recently bought a 1983 kubota l295dt. It came with power steering well it was leaking bad. I removed it and put the steering arm back in place (the dealership still had it). I filled it back up with hydraulic fluid now the front loader with not raise or tilt the pto is spinning and the 3 point goes down but not up. Any advice or comments will be helpful thanks in advance!

 

[ptsg]

How did you handle the connections that previously went to the power steering? I say your issue is related to those hoses and how they're connected now.

Also, are you sure you don't want to fix the power steering? Loader and no power steering don't go very well, it works but it will be on the hard side.

 

[rbargeron]

I don't believe the L295 was offered in the U.S. with factory power steering. Dealers who sold front loaders with them sometimes added after-market power steering, running off the internal hydraulic system.

Tractors of that vintage (L305, L345) with factory power steering, had a second pump, separate reservoir, and hoses to a hydraulic steering box, all separate and isolated from the tractor's main hydraulic system. Yours isn't like that.

Any chance of posting some pictures of the added bits and pieces it has?

Meanwhile, the pto would not be affected by either arrangement - no clue why it's now turning - not involved in the steering.

 

[Swampfarmer96]

The current parts list doesn't show a factory power steering option for the L295 - was yours an after-market setup? If so it would have been plumbed in somewhere to get pressurized hydraulic oil. Those changes may not have been fully reversed when it was removed. Any chance of posting some pictures of the added bits and pieces it had ?

 

[Swampfarmer96]

 

[Swampfarmer96]

The bottoms picture with the 3 hoses the one in the middle was hooked up too the power steering. And the one fitting that looks like a elbow had a hose coming off it going too the power steering

 

[rbargeron]

Your pictures help clear up most of it. The tractor looks to have 2 stacked hydraulic blocks - an unusual arrangement (there's usually just one - or none).

Looking at the layout below, when adding valves to these tractors, a one-piece hydraulic block bolts to part 8, replacing part 7, to provide ports for added valve(s). Your setup has 2 blocks - but accomplishes the same thing.



one-piece hydraulic block bolted to part 8

Part 8

On part 8 the forward hole is "power out" and the rear hole is for the loader valve's power-beyond flow which comes back to power the 3-point hitch.

With the power steering removed, I think the loader valve's exhaust hose should be going to the fitting on top of the trans case instead - otherwise the system can't run open-center.

When the power steering was installed, it was likely powered from the loader's power-beyond hose, with the steering valve's exhaust going to the fitting on the trans.

It isn't a clear situation because we don't know how your hydraulic blocks are drilled - how the ports connect. Maybe need more eyes to help figure out what's what.

Dick B

 

[rbargeron]

Please post a picture of the loader valve and its hoses. And maybe another pic of the 2 hydraulic blocks from behind? We'll get to the bottom of this - as my son would say "it isn't science rocket!"