MossRoad
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- Joined
- Aug 31, 2001
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- South Bend, Indiana (near)
- Tractor
- Power Trac PT425 2001 Model Year
Couldn't hurt to call around to some forklift repair/sales companies in your area and ask.
As for hooking it up, with either hydraulic or electric, you're sill going to have to get off and connect or disconnect either two hydraulic quick connects or a wire plug. And I'll guess the wires/plug will get damaged or break before the hydraulic quick connects and hoses do.
You could get a 10" or 12" stroke cylinder for under a hundred bucks. Put two of them opposing and get 20-24" of adjustment if needed for under two hundred. Some hoses, fittings and a manual selector valve at the operators station (or cough up some more money for electric selector valve) and you'd be looking at $3-400-500+
Unless you have health issues, or just plain need it because it happens so often, for that kind of money, I'd either get off the machine and adjust them manually, or, just continue to leave your latches unhooked as you mentioned, and practice bumping things like a tree to move the forks in our out. Don't know how hard it would be to do on your machine, as mine's articulated, and I can swing the forks 4-5 feet from one side to the other by just turning the wheel without driving forward or backwards.
Good luck in your search. Maybe get a cheap actuator out of a car seat at a junk yard to practice on?
As for hooking it up, with either hydraulic or electric, you're sill going to have to get off and connect or disconnect either two hydraulic quick connects or a wire plug. And I'll guess the wires/plug will get damaged or break before the hydraulic quick connects and hoses do.
You could get a 10" or 12" stroke cylinder for under a hundred bucks. Put two of them opposing and get 20-24" of adjustment if needed for under two hundred. Some hoses, fittings and a manual selector valve at the operators station (or cough up some more money for electric selector valve) and you'd be looking at $3-400-500+
Unless you have health issues, or just plain need it because it happens so often, for that kind of money, I'd either get off the machine and adjust them manually, or, just continue to leave your latches unhooked as you mentioned, and practice bumping things like a tree to move the forks in our out. Don't know how hard it would be to do on your machine, as mine's articulated, and I can swing the forks 4-5 feet from one side to the other by just turning the wheel without driving forward or backwards.
Good luck in your search. Maybe get a cheap actuator out of a car seat at a junk yard to practice on?
