Case 1840 with the controls reversed!

[Off Road SHO]

Hey guys, my new to me older style 1840 has the boom lift and bucket curl controls reversed. That is to say the boom is controlled by the right hand lever and the curl by the left. I don't see how this was done. Out of the valve body is all steel piping and doesn't look like it could be switched very easily. The torsion rods from the bottom pivots are both paralell to each other front to back. I'm cornfuzed. Tom

 

[Tazza]

Could they have reveresed the linkages somehow? as in putting the top one at the bottom and the bottom on the top? i'm not sure if your levers are joined to the control block with metal bars or cables, if cables, it's easy to swap them at the control block.

 

[Off Road SHO]

Could they have reveresed the linkages somehow? as in putting the top one at the bottom and the bottom on the top? i'm not sure if your levers are joined to the control block with metal bars or cables, if cables, it's easy to swap them at the control block.

Tazza, That's what they did. The control rods have a bend in them so that they can criss cross before the valve body. When they reassembled it they just ran them parallel. I think they also have the hoses from the left drive pump reversed also. One problem at a time. Tom

 

[Tazza]

Tazza, That's what they did. The control rods have a bend in them so that they can criss cross before the valve body. When they reassembled it they just ran them parallel. I think they also have the hoses from the left drive pump reversed also. One problem at a time. Tom

Glad it's an easy fix, i have never understooh why people change things around on purpose, you move from one skidder to another and you need to get used to the different controls.

 

[Pastime Acres]

Tazza, That's what they did. The control rods have a bend in them so that they can criss cross before the valve body. When they reassembled it they just ran them parallel. I think they also have the hoses from the left drive pump reversed also. One problem at a time. Tom

We have a 1818 case & a 1840 case we had the 1840 1st so l got used to those levers and then my son bought a 1818 and the levers are just the opposite well l just got done fixing a leak on the 1840 and l must of just switched the steel rods for the hydraulic valves. I thought when l was operating it something felt odd. Well now the bucket and boom operates the same as the 1818. Now the left control operates the boom and the right operates the bucket. Now if l can get my brain to switch the way the 1840 is operating now it will be a lot easier when l switch skidders. I guess which ever way you get used to.