toplink cylinder

[navycut]

Hey guys,
I just ordered the rear remote kit for my CK20 HST.Iwas thinking about a cylinder from Surplus Center item # 9-7258-14.The retracted length is 21-1/4" which is very close to the short length of my top link( 21").My question is the 14" stroke.Do you think this will be a problem.I thought the normal stroke would probably be 10".Anyone have an opinion.By the way I have lurked on this forum for quite awhile but this is my first post.Thanks RLP

 

[MadReferee]

What is the retracted and extended lengths of your existing manual top link? You should try to match them as close as possible. An inch difference in either direction will probably not make much difference.

 

[shaley]

Welcome to the site. I think it should OK since you are in control of extension/retraction length with the remote valve. I'd use 1/4" hoses in order to slow the action as much as possible.

 

[3RRL]

One thing about the added extension length of your hyd cylinder...
If you're using the boxblade with the scarifiers all the way down, be sure to watch that those rippers don't end up in your rear tires. Depends how far back your boxblade sits from the tractor, but mine come pretty close. If I rotated them more, they would hit the rears.

 

[IslandTractor]

Navy, glad to have another CK20 owner posting. Does your moniker imply USN? My tractor is within five miles (as the crow flies) from the Newport base and we have an ex WWII ammunition dump on our island (empty now thankfully).

 

[navycut]

Yes,Island retired Navy way back in 1975.

 

[navycut]

Shaley,thanks for that observation.I was wondering which hose to order.

 

[IslandTractor]

Keep us posted on your toplink project. I have the same tractor and have had the same questions you've posted. I just haven't gotten far with that project. I have a lot of landscape raking to do in the next six months and a hydraulic toplink would be very helpful.

 

[navycut]

Mad,I did,nt measure the extended length but the retracted length is 21".

 

[navycut]

Island do you have rear remotes?I was curious which male couplers to order.