Kubota L6060 custom front fenders and 900lb weight box. getting ready for winter.

amhicks21 · Jan 24, 2018

Fallon said:
When dumping a bucket, the load is unsupported pas a certain point & pulling on the cylinders. And hydraulic flow is limited so there may not be any pressure on either side if the piston in the cylinder. If seals are worn or leaking the cylinder will suck in air. And you end up with a floppy bucket until the air is purged, until the next dump.

Regen dumps full pressure to both sides of the cylinder. As there is a rod taking up space on one side, the cylinder will overpower the smaller surface area rod end. Instead of going to tank, the excess fluid gets pushed from the rod end to the but end of the cylinder. Pressure is maintained on at least one, if not both cylinder ends so there is no chance for air to get sucked in.

Not an ideal solution, but economical & prevents people from making fun of your floppy bucket.

Makes sense. I remember having lots of problems with air in the cylinders of a 2005 L3400 that i used to run. That would certainly explain it.

amhicks21 · Jan 25, 2018

So, sure enough i just wasnt pushing the stick far enough to the right! Seems funny to be learning such simple things about a machine ive spent 1200 hours on. Im not sure if i necessarily like using the loader stick if i have to push it that far though. I guess i'll just have to see what feels better once it snows again. Hopefully my crossover relief valve and flow control valves show up in the next few days so i can button it all up.

amhicks21 · Feb 5, 2018

So, we finally got some snow to try out the new setup. We got a total of around 6 inches and i spent about 9 hours clearing it. Somewhat to my surprise, everything worked perfectly. The crossover relief was set at a good pressure out of the box. The flow control valves worked as they should despite being 12 dollar ebay valves and what im the happiest about is that the modification to the wings worked even better than i had hoped. I dont love having to wrench the stick far to the right for the tilt but it didnt bother me enough to switch to the 3rd function. I'll probably give the 3rd function a try for the next snow though.

crazyal · Feb 7, 2018

amhicks21 said:
So, sure enough i just wasnt pushing the stick far enough to the right! Seems funny to be learning such simple things about a machine ive spent 1200 hours on. Im not sure if i necessarily like using the loader stick if i have to push it that far though. I guess i'll just have to see what feels better once it snows again. Hopefully my crossover relief valve and flow control valves show up in the next few days so i can button it all up.

Since I have no choice if I want to use the loader lever to rotate the chute I just got use to the idea. The problem is that after months of snow blowing I put my loader on and now it's second nature to push the lever all the way over to the right to dump the bucket. But it's slow as death doing so. In the spring I have to "unlearn" pushing the lever that far. I have actually thought of making some way of stopping the lever from going that far over when I have the loader on.

amhicks21 · Feb 8, 2018

here's some video of how it functions for anyone interested. Im still not happy with the lack of tilt angle or lift height but that's a result of the plow's design and i really dont want to hack it apart to make changes. Its still a 100% original truck plow that would just need the onboard hydraulic lines hooked up and the lights put back on to be ready for a truck. Im thinking ill be keeping an eye out for a Boss EXT or a Blizzard Power Plow for the next tractor.