Setting up Remotes with Quick Connects

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Doesn't it make sense to use a male and female on each valve so you get consistent direction correct?

Looking on the web I see a lot of folks put all females on their remotes and all males on their implements.

The implement I recently bought (Sandman TT) came with 2 males.

What would you recommend to be universally common?

I'll only have Toplink and Tilt on Box Blade and a Single small Piston for Dumping the SandMan TT.

I bought some quick connects at Tractor Supply but I don't know if they are a good size to go with or good quality.

I think they were these Pioneer Quick Coupling, Standard Series, 3/8 in. Single Acting Sleeve Set - Tractor Supply Co.

They were only $19.99 for a Male and Female.

The ones supplied by the dealer on the new remote I think are Kubota and I suspect they are Metric and not a single connector at Tractor Supply would fit (and they had quite bit). And they are quick a bit smaller than the Pioneer 3/8" I bought.

 

[Rocky Hoffler]

Been doing this for 40 years and have always put a male and a female on work ports this way you can't cross hoses. some people put all on one kind and then mark them with different color tape. I like to make it idiot proof because sure as the world somebody would be color blind.

 

[MtnViewRanch]

Been doing this for 40 years and have always put a male and a female on work ports this way you can't cross hoses. some people put all on one kind and then mark them with different color tape. I like to make it idiot proof because sure as the world somebody would be color blind.

While what you do does make sense, (no possible mis connections) as far as I know any and all REAR remotes that are set up from the factory (manufacturer) always have the female ends located on the tractor. Good or bad, that seems to be the industry std.

 

[KennyV]

"all REAR remotes that are set up from the factory (manufacturer) always have the female ends located on the tractor. Good or bad, that seems to be the industry std."
That is Correct ... and the way I have Always done it. KennyV

 

[skyhook]

Pioneer will only work with pioneer, male and female, they are not interchangeable with the
"regular" QA.
The pioneer have a ball on the male ends where the regular QA's are flat, using a regular with a pioneer will leak.
Kubota's QA's will not fit either of those. The male ends have a "further lip" to them and the female cannot reach it.
Look closely at the fitting before buying new ones , to match accordingly.

 

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The Pioneers are many types. They had the flat ones, the ball end one, the nipple type, they had ones labeled john deer, international harvester, even kubota, but they were larger kubota ones.

When the dealer installed the remotes they put males and females. Partly because there was no **** room for all females.

 

[MHarryE]

My Kubotas have female on the tractor as well as all of our John Deeres. We use Pioneer males on all male ends on our implements without problem. The only time I had a problem was when I got a cylinder that had CHINA marked on the male ends instead of Pioneer, but I think that was because it was a new cylinder. Those same couplers are working fine on something else now. The new cylinders can take a lot of cycles to start working because of air in the system that needs to be worked out by cycling.

Our combine, however, does have male and female on each header and combine so you can't mix up the hoses. They, however, use the same Pioneer coupling. It is an old International.

When I go to Northern I can find all kinds of coupler adapters for adapting standard John Deere and International couplers to Pioneer.

All of our tractors have a decal showing which port is the rod end and which port is the piston end. So I just trace back the hose when hooking up. My cousin which whom I farm and runs only our John Deere tractors has them all color coded with a piece of baler twine wrapped and tied on the end of a hose.

 

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I would guess that having the male end on the implements is easier to clean/inspect and are subject to more crud.

 

[CHDinCT]

All I can add is that, for example, on a hydraulic top link, you might not like which way the cylinder extends/retracts based on the direction you move the valve control. Say you want the cylinder to extend when you move the lever toward the rear of the tractor and vice versa. With males on both cylinder hoses, you can simply reverse the hoses and get it to move how you like. Otherwise, you'd need to remove and swap the hoses on the cylinder. Beyond that, it seems to be industry practice to have females on all rear remotes and FEL 3rd function valves on the tractor side.