Farmall H hydraulics question

When I move the hydraulic lever to the up position, the FEL lifts as it should. When I move the hydraulic lever to the down position, the engine really takes a hit (bogs, pulls down, works even harder than when lifting something heavy with the FEL), but the FEL does lower. I don"t have any implements or test equipment to test the remote at the rear, so I don"t know if I'm getting pressure there or not.

Is it possible that this valve is made for dual-acting cylinders and has been hooked up strangely? That whenever I press down, the pump is attempting to send pressure to the rear remote but since there is nothing attached, the pressure relief is kicking in? And that's why the engine is working so hard? If that's the case, am I hurting the tractor running it this way? If that isn"t the case, can anyone explain this?

Aside from being annoying, does it hurt anything plumbed this way? I know the fix is to plumb B back to the tank (and even understand why!). Didn't understand the two 1/4 valves that were mentioned earlier. Probably more than I need to get into, as right now I just need the FEL.

If/when I need the rear remotes hooked up, I'll revisit. Just thought life would be easier at that point if I understood how things were now.

Move your tractors hydralic lever to the down position and then move that loader's valve again to "up" just as if you were trying to raise the loader.

Since the tractor's lever is in the "dump" position, the weight of the loader will force the oil to flow backwards and the loader will then lower.

Someone just plumbed that valve in there to "split" the use of the hydraulics. When you go to use the rear hydraulics on an implement, you'll have to use the same process to lower that implement as well.

Allan

The tractor has live-hydraulics running off of a distributor mounted pump.

Okay, don't dead-head it then, as it will take that gearing right out of the front cover.

In order for that to work, the valve has to be reconfigured for one way action. Usually involves changing out a plug in the valve and routing that "B" port to sump.

Allan