m5040
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- Nov 23, 2008
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- Tractor
- Kubota M6040 L2250, JohnDeere 310D, Ford 841 Elenco, Ford 961, Trapmaster, PT180 w/LM bucket and 45" brush cutter, PT1430 Deutz w/grapple bucket, Antonio Carraro Tigrecar 6500. John Deere 5300. Former owned Steiner 430 max, Goldoni REV Maxter 7
I cheaped out and used parts off of vehicles that I had around since they were size appropriate. I have a dash mounted (in the PTO hole) on/off switch. It is a suction fan, so it sucks heat out of the engine compartment and heat wants to rise anyway, so it pulls it up and out the top of the hood. The hardest part is tracing the hydraulic lines. I believe it needs to go in the return line from the loader control valve. That will always have oil flow with no pressure and it is -4 size (I used PUSH-ON type, very easy to assemble yourself to make the lengths just right) so it easy to run and same size as transmission coolers on pickup trucks.
When I narrowed down to a few hoses, I used a different tractor and raised up the rear of the power trac high in the air so I could take off the hyd hose from the bottom of the hyd reservoir without loosing oil (plastic wrap under the filler cap). I had the PT180 loader arms raised all the way up before lifting with other tractor (don't start engine). When I took off the hose that I expected to be the control valve return, oil would only come out of the hose when I lowered the loader. This was the way I made sure I had the correct line. (The PT factory doesn't use the same ports for every tractor.) Then I just used a union and plumbed a hose up to the cooler, then back to the hyd tank.
The picture attached is of a 425 I got somewhere. I copied that.
I didn't do a write up because until you bought yours, I think I was the only active member with a PT180 and it doesn't apply to the other tractors (so nobody cares).
When I narrowed down to a few hoses, I used a different tractor and raised up the rear of the power trac high in the air so I could take off the hyd hose from the bottom of the hyd reservoir without loosing oil (plastic wrap under the filler cap). I had the PT180 loader arms raised all the way up before lifting with other tractor (don't start engine). When I took off the hose that I expected to be the control valve return, oil would only come out of the hose when I lowered the loader. This was the way I made sure I had the correct line. (The PT factory doesn't use the same ports for every tractor.) Then I just used a union and plumbed a hose up to the cooler, then back to the hyd tank.
The picture attached is of a 425 I got somewhere. I copied that.
I didn't do a write up because until you bought yours, I think I was the only active member with a PT180 and it doesn't apply to the other tractors (so nobody cares).
