Long 5140 Loader Controls Adjustment

[Harry in Ky]

If you have "slop" in the joystick there's a good chance the valve spool that supplies the tilt function may not be actually moving far enough in either direction to accomplish anything. The view from the bottom shows the area to be pretty nasty, and only you can see what's actually happening in there when you move the lever. Maybe if you took an air hose to it, cleaned it off a little, and then looked to see what's moving and what's not, the problem might be self explanatory. Could nothing more than loose or sloppy bolts and/or ball joints.

 

[oldnslo]

With the engine off and loader on the ground move the joystick and watch which spool moves and how much it moves. Could be as simple as some linkage came loose.

I see Harry provided similar response while I was typing