Poor man Hydraulic (almost) Top Link - "Hydraulink"

[ovrszd]

Thanks for the pic lesson Richard, I've been doing another way and you have to "click" on it to view it in a decent size.
yeah!

No problem Eric. You nailed it!!!

I really like your "double swivel" ends on your top link. Did you buy that or build it??

 

[Rustyiron]

You know I'm cheap right?:laughing:
I wanted a "just right" stroke so I built it. I'll practice my big pic lesson.

 

[jeff9366]

I do believe that I can easily reach the "Hydraulink" adjusting valve without getting off my tractor.

75% of the time, not 100% of the time.

Sometimes you cannot reach the valve, which often orients itself down, which is a weakness in the design.

Sometimes load on the HydrauLink is such that you have to get off the tractor to put enough hand torque on the (downward oriented) valve to move it. Hand torque has always been enough on my Cat I HydrauLink. I have NEVER required a wrench.

Is the LOA for a Cat II HydrauLink the same as the LOA for a Cat I HydrauLink? It the Cat II HydrauLink is longer than the Cat I, you will not be able to use it with some of your Cat I implements.

 

[ovrszd]

You know I'm cheap right?:laughing:
I wanted a "just right" stroke so I built it. I'll practice my big pic lesson.

Very nice work Eric!! Professional design and welds!!

 

[fried1765]

75% of the time, not 100% of the time.

Sometimes you cannot reach the valve, which often orients itself down, which is a weakness in the design.

Sometimes load on the HydrauLink is such that you have to get off the tractor to put enough hand torque on the (downward oriented) valve to move it. Hand torque has always been enough on my Cat I HydrauLink. I have NEVER required a wrench.

Is the LOA for a Cat II HydrauLink the same as the LOA for a Cat I HydrauLink? It the Cat II HydrauLink is longer than the Cat I, you will not be able to use it with some of your Cat I implements.

The CAT ll Hydraulink LOA is greater than the CAT l, but I think that is an ADVANTAGE with my Pat's Easy Change.
I do not think the CAT l would be long enough with the Pat's, which lengthens the lift arms by about 4".

 

[ovrszd]

Probably true.

In an ideal world you would have mentioned your Pat's EZ change in your opening post.

He did.

 

[fried1765]

He did.

"In an ideal world" jeff9366 would have read my post accurately, and the jeff9366 scarcasm might have been avoided.

 

[ovrszd]

No sarcasm intended. I was attempting to be tactful.

Tactful would have been you going back to post #1 and rereading it, then posting a "sorry, I missed that "