Hyd fitting nightmare

old · Dec 17, 2017

So on this loader I bent the cylinder on just to get by I pulled a couple bucket cylinder off a loader I am not using to get by. Problem is the cylinders use 3/8 pipe fitting and the tractor loader they are going on use 1/2 inch JIC fittings. Do you know how hard it is to find 3/8 male pipe to 1/2 inch JIC male fittings?? What I found was fitting that would go from the 3/8 to 1/2 inch pipe and then form 1/2 pipe to 1/2 inch JIC. Sat here in the house putting them together and guess what I got one set of fittings wrong. I got a 1/2 inch JIC to 3/8 pipe but the pipe fitting is female and I need male so I hope I have a 3/8 nipple laying around or I will have to go to town just for one fitting. Oh well. Had planed to work on it today but since it is trying to rain I'll just stay in instead. Also these cylinders I am putting on are around 3 inches longer but I'm lucky this loader has 4 sets of holes for mounting the bucket cylinder so the longer one should work out just fine

Frank 41 · Dec 17, 2017

It will be more expensive, but get new hoses with the right ends on them.

old · Dec 17, 2017

Finding the hoses are harder then finding the fittings. Very hard to find hoses that go from 3/8 mal pipe to 1/2 inch JIC. Plus a number of hoses on this are almost new as in replaced this summer right after I got this tractor. Was given to me due to have caught fire and burned from the head up

Aaron SEIA · Dec 17, 2017

Take the hose to a good hyd store. They should be able to cut the one end off and replace it with what you need.
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VADAVE · Dec 17, 2017

I hope you don't have the tractor setting outside in the rain.
Now adapt the to the 1/2 inch size the put on the pipe to JIC adaptor. Should work fine but maybe a little faster.

old · Dec 17, 2017

If is outside but all open fittings are such that little of no rain will get in. Cylinders has 3/8 fitting on it. Cylinders I am removing have 1/2 inch O-ring to JIC fittings non them so that is why I had to get more fittings

IanC · Dec 17, 2017

Here is a link to the Weatherhead / Eaton adaptor fitting catalog. There are fittings to do what you want, your guy probably just didn't know where to look, or didn't want to bother ordering them. http://www.eaton.com/ecm/groups/public/@pub/@eaton/@japan/documents/content/pct_1504318.pdf. I don't remember where you are located, but if your local tractor dealer deals with F.C. Mason out of St. Johns Michigan (wholesale only) they carry a large selection in stock.

old · Dec 17, 2017

Being Sunday not much open in town other then Orscheln's and they had what I needed but that was about it. The one fitting I got wrong was due to not triple checking things. s if was I had to go back and change out a few pieces the second time but I did that before I left the store. I'm in Missouri the lake of the Ozarks area by the way

LarryH · Dec 17, 2017

we should have them on the shelf ask for Robert 270-528-21133vdays 7-4 csst

pat sublett · Dec 17, 2017

Hat a similar experience with a JD grapple bucket. Lost a Tee. Drove 100 plus miles total, tried ever place that I could find and eventually had $300 worth of new hoses made to solve the problem.
I have nightmares about hydraulic fittings. There are JIC, NPT, female, male, transgender, non gender etc; then what size wrench fits the sucker.

Hlmillus · Dec 17, 2017

I cut the ends off of any hose that I throw away and simply weld any two styles together to make an adaptor

dzc3 · Dec 17, 2017

Why not just have hoses made with the fitting you need and skip all the adapters?

old · Dec 17, 2017

#1 it is Sunday and well no place to have it done.
#2 most of the hoses in that area are almost new due to the fire.
#3 cheaper In the long run plus sooner or latter I will be putting new ones back on so will need to keep it as is.

This is a stop gap fix not a permanent one

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