Hmm question for folks. Anyone do anything special with their hydraulic line ends on the FEL when stored outdoors? Dust caps on obviously, but anyone wrap em in a bag or anything? I'll do the usual cleanup of old grease and hit everything with a fresh shot and such.
One more slightly more interesting noob hydro question.
LX2963 residential grade front blower...
The chute on the snowblower operates to the left with the regular valve. Push stick left, moves as slow or fast as you like. To go right, you have to push the stick far right past the detent that is normally the rapid bucket drop on the FEL.
Then the chute rotates at full speed to the right, until the stick is pulled back over that detent. Can't do a slow change or stop it precisely going right. Dealer says that's the normal setup but mentioned something about a third function during that quick conversation. I probably missed something critical because I had a second call coming in at the time.
I do have a rear factory third function on the LX. I don't think he was referring to that, unless adding it changes the loop somehow that requires something different to be going on with the left right plumbing on the main stick for the blower.
Anyway... I don't get it. Seems like the hydros on the blower could rotate the chute right with the usual push of the stick to the right. When attached to the FEL, that valve just reverses the flow to tilt down, right? Past the detent is a pressure RELEASE isn't it?? Or is it just full tilt the other direction?
Is this just a wonky design choice by Kubota on this particular blower? I swear in videos of the commercial blower it seems like the operator can just waggle the chute as desired with normal left/right stick. A cost saving measure in the hydros I'm not understanding on the residential grade 63" blower?
I think I'm missing something about how the hydros spinning the chute actually work. Anybody know why it needs pushed into the rapid bucket drop detent to go right?
Dealer definitely said it was normal when they set the tractor up for the front blower, added the subframe, and did a function test. I'm just trying to do the old engineer thing and figure out why. Ha. I'm guessing I'm missing that there's a check valve involved in this process somewhere.
I do think if I had known this was normal for this particular blower, I would have popped for the commercial blower, since it doesn't seem to do this in various online videos. But I just won't use t
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