TxJim
Well that very interesting that your loader takes over 6 sec as well. Mine was actually just under the 7 sec. With this in mind maybe I'm not going to be able to increase that stroke time by any great amount. As a follow up to JJ's comments I would still like to stroke that loader at rated rpm just to see the time interval to see if is close to the 4.7sec spec. My dealer has just contacted me and said they have asked Kubota to look at this so I think I'll wait to see what they have to say before I dig too deep. Thanks for going out and stroking that loader for me as now I can compare apples to apples. There are a number of other machines close to me but mainly B's and L's so much smaller loaders.
JJ: Thanks for all your good info. I can tell you've been around this stuff before. I'm just an old civil guy so sand and gravel I know lots about but hydraulics are a different story.