E27 N Hydraulic tap

[CalGG]

My 1950 E27n is fitted with the single lever Hydraulic lift. On the left side is a tap that's on this machine is plugged with a bolt, From looking at the hydraulic layout in my copy of A.
Condie's articles written for "Trac-Prez" so many years ago, It appears this is a pressure tap suited for single acting remote cylinders like dump trailers or repair jacks.

The layout also suggest I would need to chain down the 3pt lift arms if I wanted to use the tap without the lift cycling though it's entire range of motion each time.

True?

Any doing it?

By the way, 'anyone else have a collection of those old Fordson Magazines? "For the advice and entertainment of tractor preservationists Everywhere".

Cheers

Cal

[brockwood]

HI weve just reasently set up a twin double actiong remotes that we can swop between our diffrent e27s so far its been on the county crawler and roadless half track working our trailing plough it feeds out that port and the return go's in the fill port the arms are normaly tied up to prevent loss of lift time thorugh the arms saging through loss of pressure when the exteranl is in hold and thus no back pressure if you wanted to use the linkige as well you would need a tap on the supply port to turn of exturanal supply to get lift pressure b http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQgI6y50 ... ature=plcp

[CalGG]

Well, thanks much, I do have a two port selector valve, so starting and stopping flow to the tph would not be an issue, hadn't though of it till now.

Nice job on loading that roadless!

Cal