Farmerditcher
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Hello all! First off sorry for the long post. Last time I was here a year ago you guys did your best to help me through a fuel problem with my new to me dozer and it ended up being crud in the fuel tank. I sucked fuel through a hose I dropped in from the fill hole last winter and finally cut tank open last summer and cleaned it out. No prob since, thanks so much for all the good ideas!
I will preface this with the fact that I don't know much about the hyd system on this dozer. It appears to be an open center system but looks to use load sensing also. Frankly I am not familiar with this system at all so bear with me. The primary job if this dozer is to pull a tile plow which is at this point being supplied with hyd oil through the ripper valve. Functionality of the plow is great but the hyd oil overheats and it seems the ripper valve is sending way more oil than needed to the plow and likely bypassing via the high pressure relief valve all the time. I fully understand this is not kosher but is the way it was set up when we bought it.
What I'd like to do is install a priority valve somewhere between the hyd. pump and the control valves to feed the tile plow. I just need 11gpm to operate the tile plow. I am not familiar with doing something like this and am not sure if it will work or not with this particular system. I also am not sure how to be sure of what size or type of valve (concerning system flow) that I need. I will plan to return oil from the tile plow back to tank.
Any help you guys are willing to give is greatly appreciated! Thank you.
I will preface this with the fact that I don't know much about the hyd system on this dozer. It appears to be an open center system but looks to use load sensing also. Frankly I am not familiar with this system at all so bear with me. The primary job if this dozer is to pull a tile plow which is at this point being supplied with hyd oil through the ripper valve. Functionality of the plow is great but the hyd oil overheats and it seems the ripper valve is sending way more oil than needed to the plow and likely bypassing via the high pressure relief valve all the time. I fully understand this is not kosher but is the way it was set up when we bought it.
What I'd like to do is install a priority valve somewhere between the hyd. pump and the control valves to feed the tile plow. I just need 11gpm to operate the tile plow. I am not familiar with doing something like this and am not sure if it will work or not with this particular system. I also am not sure how to be sure of what size or type of valve (concerning system flow) that I need. I will plan to return oil from the tile plow back to tank.
Any help you guys are willing to give is greatly appreciated! Thank you.