snow plow hyd

[john_bud]

Just thinking out loud here, how do the cylinders leak down when there's no place for the fluid to go when the lines are disconnected?.

A cylinder with an internal leak is just a shock absorber with a small orifice.

jb

 

[Bedlam]

well, My idea was to as the poster stated, to position the bucket where I want it, and remove the two hoses to the cylinders.(quick disconnects)
And then attach one hose to each cylinder. My thought was that oil would flow through one hose and into the cylinder, And the opposing cylinder would let the oil return through the other line.
(Making the two cylinders act as one single acting).
I went to purchase the disconnects and talked to the 'parts' guy about the idea. and he said I think you'll have a problem. And didn't get into much detail other than the regen system would prevent this from working.
It didn't make sense to me, so I went ahead and bought the quick disconnects and went home and set it up.
It simply wouldn't work the cylinder would move slightly and then stall. I removed the hose from the cylinder and opened the valve and got pressure from the hose into a can. and the re-attached it. and still nothing.
seemed like it should have worked but I think the parts guy was right about it.
Either way It was allot of strain out front in my opinion and made the overall length of the tractor awfully long, So I opted to weld onto the front 'bumper' the bracket to attach the plow, and now use the bucket to just lift the plow.
the tractor is a ford 1993
I don't usually get much leak down on the bucket, but I dd some plowing with the blade straight and it wasn't long before it leaked down slightly, but enough to warrant hooking the hoses up again to level it.
If others were able to get it to work. I wonder if I had other issues?

 

[bullwinkle]

wow, thanks for al the responces. i am re-thinking my plans. thanks again i will remember how helpfull everyone has been bullwinkle

 

[Spike-MI]

I am sure there are a ton of threads out there on this subject, but a eletric diverter valve would probably be your least costly route. You just interupt your roll circuit with the diverter and when you push a 12V button (usually mounted to you joystick) it disables the roll and operates you angle circuit on your plow. Just a thought.
Spike

 

[JB4310]

I am sure there are a ton of threads out there on this subject, but a eletric diverter valve would probably be your least costly route. You just interupt your roll circuit with the diverter and when you push a 12V button (usually mounted to you joystick) it disables the roll and operates you angle circuit on your plow. Just a thought.
Spike

It's definitely a simple concept, but I read kenny's whole thread how he did his and it didn't seem that easy to put it all together, I think he did his all from scratch, if there was a complete kit that would make things easier, I opted for the 3rd scv, don't know if that's an option for the OP.

 

[Harris53]

I just finished (yesterday) putting 2 - 12v diveter valves on the bucket curl on my Ford for a power angle snowplow. Come to find out they do make 1 valve with all the connections that are needed to do the same thing. With the switch in the off posistion the bucket control works normally, with the switch on the plow will angle and obviously no bucket control. Now my question is this, could I have come off of the pressure line from the pump and into a 2 way directional control valve and have the power angle anytime?

 

[kennyd]

I just finished (yesterday) putting 2 - 12v diveter valves on the bucket curl on my Ford for a power angle snowplow. Come to find out they do make 1 valve with all the connections that are needed to do the same thing. With the switch in the off posistion the bucket control works normally, with the switch on the plow will angle and obviously no bucket control. Now my question is this, could I have come off of the pressure line from the pump and into a 2 way directional control valve and have the power angle anytime?

Welcome to TBN

Yes, single units are available, they have 6 ports on them-2 IN and 4 OUT. As to your question, the answer is YES, you can add a new valve in series with your loader valve to have independent control over the angle of your plow.