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why might tilt/lift cause blown engine fuse if the tilt/lift linkage doesn’t touch any wiring when operated?

Hey all! Been dealing with the engine fuse blowing for a while now. Sometimes I can run it for a bit before it does. sometimes it won’t even start, just turns over. ‘one of the times it wouldn’t start I unplugged the parking lock solenoid and it started fine. So I replaced the solenoid and it...

How do you activate float on a 1998 863F? It's the model with the two green cobra(error code) lights on the left handle, and it does not have the obvious float button which the later models and upgrade handles have. Thanks!

The male hydraulic aux connector ejects the grapple hose after about 20 minutes of work. It is then basically impossible to recouple the hose by hand. at the same time this happens, the tilt and lift start to sporadically malfunction. Tilt and lift will have intermittent hiccups and sometimes...

Just DISCONNECTED almost EVERYTHING from the BICS valve EXCEPT for the BICS VALVE SOLENOID , Ran the machine grading a driveway for 20 minutes without any lockout or lights flashing. However now that I've become very sensitized to noticing "HICCUPS/Lockout" , I did notice that the lift movement...

Today I disconnected the two BICS coils and everything worked great for a while. But now is locking up again(randomly tilt and lift). Sometimes requires restart sometimes not. I tested one of the coils with the machine running and putting a screw driver to it, no sign of magnet working.

Ran it again today. both tilt and lift started freezing once engine warmed up. Lights would not code any error unless I held the handles longer. Also it would NOT completely lock out to require restart every time, usually just a momentary lack of response, sometimes with a blink on the...

Have installed one new actuator and new complete hand control harness from previous trouble shooting escapade. Re-grounded any ground wire I could find. ...Turned out I had an actuator out of neutral since I had previously opened it out of curiosity while resealing spools. Machine worked great...

Today I manually reset neutral in the old style actuator(which I also installed) and it works for now. It seems that when I originally opened it I must have moved some of the gears. I also started to reset it the newer actuator but decided to finish if/when I need it. Yes I had checked the...

So I just hooked up the cleaned actuator. it passed the error codes. However, it seems that the neutral position has shifted in it, because when I pressed the "press to operate" button, the bucket immediately curled and would not return. but I can lift and lower the boom! seems like an...

can I use actuator with part number 7101672 in place of actuator part number 7104842?

The adapter/spacer has arrived! I was in the process of installing and found that the original bolts from the old style actuator are too short as I suspected. Yesterday(while ordering) I had called two separate dealers about bolt length, they both said that it shouldn't be an issue since no part...

Yes I opened up the original actuator that failed before buying a new one. I was told that cleaning is usually ineffective.. I used rags for the oil and some super fine steel wool to clean carbon deposits from copper points. I also opened the other actuator(older style but surprisingly still...

That's a good point Tazza, however I'm pretty sure that my machine is older that the ones which need "programing". ...according to what several dealers have told me. UPDATE: Sunday I decided to plug in(out of curiosity to compare error lights) the original actuator which had been flooded and...

Yes those two do show up at the top of a google search. do you know of any other deals like that? they are each about $500 new from dealer.