Anonymous-0
Well-known Member
I have found out that the fitting on the tractor end of your hyd. Cyl. Hose has back pressure on it when there is a load on the cylinder. In other words you will have difficulty plugging the hose in to your tractor remote if the cylinder is holding an implement up, because the ball in the fitting will not move back, presumably due to the pressure of the hydraulic fluid against the fitting.. Once the pressure is off the cylinder (i.e. implement drifts down or otherwise), the ball will retract and the male tip can easily be plugged in to the tractor remote. I had a situation however when the cylinder had no pressure on it whatsoever (was not even attached to anything) and the balls on both fittings would not move and could not be inserted in to the remote. Do I have a defective cylinder? If not, is there any way to relieve the pressure? I have tried to push the fitting tip in by hitting it with a hammer and pushing it against a hard surface to no avail. There was nothing to my knowledge “frozen” in the cylinder as I had just used it the previous day.