Great info Dave,thanks very much.Well,I think we are moving forward since you told me you think the relief valve is somewhere else-I think I may have found it.Attached are some pictures from the parts manual again,and of that actual area of the tractor.What
really caught my eye was part numbers 25-31 and 34-ESPECIALLY 30,"shims" and the notation after "As Required".This must be the relief valve??Thanks again so much,
Mike
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Mike
Does your tractor have a hydraulic shuttle control?
If you are not familiar with hydraulic shuttle, once you are moving, the shuttle shift can be moved from forward to reverse without using the clutch.
Its purpose is to facilitate using the FEL going forward and backwards moving, material.
This question is very important because it identifies which one of two companies built your tractor.
I requested and received a complete set of WSM, parts and operators manuals just for asking at Red River based upon the assumption it was the model with the hydraulic shuttle.
Let me know asap and if correct and you have the hydraulic shuttle I will send you the material.
The WSM is a big file and I have just gone through it very quickly.
The bad news is in the relief valve specifications as shown in the page from shop manual.
10.5 MP
Not the news you were hoping for.
Perhaps I have the wrong tractor because you don't have the hydraulic shuttle.
Are you familiar with the term draft control as it pertains to a tractor.
A brief description. You have a two furrow plow in the ground and pulling it across the field.
The density and wetness of the soil will vary so the tractor will have to deal with the increased pulling load or it will just stall. You could keep raising and lowering the depth of the plow using the three point hitch lever. It would be a very tiring and frustrating job.
To over come this limitation, tractor designers realized they were already getting a signal back from the plow about how hard it was, at that moment, to pull it through the soil.
The top link. If you try and plow without a top link, the plow will just tilt forward and out of the ground. The top link, when plowing, is resisting a push from the plow. When you are raising the entire plow above the ground, the top link is being stretched by the weight of the plow.
By building a hydraulic valve into the attachment point of the top link, designers can sense how hard the plow is resisting being pulled through the ground and gradually and automatically raise and lower the 3 pt lower arms thus keeping the load or draft on the tractor engine constant.
The shims you are seeing may be part of that adjustment.
Dave M7040