TC24DA "top and tilt"

rambler · Jan 29, 2006

Re: TC24DA \"top and tilt\"

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We installed a set of rear remotes on the back of my TC with quick connects. To operate the rear remotes there is a control lever to direct the flow. I plug my TNT control valve into the rear remote and simply lock down the valve lever for the remote when I want to use the 4 way valve to operate the TNT. This type of set up lets me disconnect the TNT and it leaves me with a regular rear remote for other uses. It also would let me directly control a simple top link without side control should I ever remove the TNT system completely and move it to another tractor.

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So you have a 2-lever (4 hoses) control plugged into a single-lever (2 hoses) factory controller. Need to activate the factory control, & then activate one of the 2 aftermarket levers before anything happens. That works.

Would it not have been cheaper to skip the factory controller all together, & just have the dealer hook up the 2-lever controller directly to your tractor?

Or, use the single factory control with a plug-in electric diverter/ multiplier, which uses electric selinoids to select which output ports you want to use at the time? These are quick connect, & portable to other tractors as well.

Seems like your dealer chose the most costly, less workable route. But there are always extra factors involved. /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif

---->Paul

MadReferee · Jan 30, 2006

Re: TC24DA \"top and tilt\"

Not necessarily the most costly but surely the easiest to install but the most impractical and hardest to use.

It looks like your dealer installed an aux valve, that is used to control the TNT, to the work ports of the factory remote. That's why you have to engage one lever to get the others to work. Simple to install, very impractical to use.

Take it back to the dealer and have him connect it correctly. If he can't figure out how to make the plumbing connections, ask here again. One of us will give you hookup instructions.

JSUnlimited · Jan 31, 2006

Re: TC24DA \"top and tilt\"

Compact1,

I really don't know what I'm going to do at this point. CCM returned my email and stated that they were out of joysticks and sidelinks until Feb??? I've called them several times, but Mark has been "busy". I never got an answer on how much the top-link is....was not answered in my email.

I called the dealer and they want around $450-500 for a single rear remote. I don't know why I could not just put a tee in the supply for the backhoe/3pt and run a line back to the joystick and then use the existing return dump on the rear axle for the BH. I think it will work since the 3pth is disabled when the BH is connected.

I'm thinking of buying pieces and parts from other suppliers and building my own????

MadReferee · Jan 31, 2006

Re: TC24DA \"top and tilt\"

( I don't know why I could not just put a tee in the supply for the backhoe/3pt and run a line back to the joystick and then use the existing return dump on the rear axle for the BH. I think it will work since the 3pth is disabled when the BH is connected. )

In your tractor's open center hydraulic circuit, all valves must be connected in series, with every valve except the last one before the tank having power beyond capabilities. You cannot just simply tee into a pressure line. Normally the 3pt is the last valve in the circuit.

Because the backhoe connection is used to feed the backhoe valve, which becomes the last valve in the circuit, the 3pt has to be disabled when the backhoe is connected. If you connect your TNT to this valve how are you proposing to operate the 3pt and the TNT together?

Other people have successfully connected aux valves to a TC24 to run a TNT, with or without the factory single remote. You simply take the hose from the loader valve's power beyond and connect it to your stand alone aux valve. The PB from the aux valve connects back into the hydraulic block where the loader PB hose went. The aux valve's return line can be teed into the backhoe return (only tank lines may be teed). There are several threads explaining this in detail.

JSUnlimited · Jan 31, 2006

Re: TC24DA \"top and tilt\"

Thanks MadRef. for the info. I guess I never thought about the flow of pressure through the various valves, etc.

Given the price of this crap, I may just throw in the towel and use the good cheap manual T&T! /forums/images/graemlins/crazy.gif