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Message: <blockquote data-quote="vinito" data-source="post: 91185" data-attributes="member: 12954">My Mom's been kinda sick for several days so I've been spending most of my time helping her out. But I needed to unwind at the end of the days so I took a stab at little parts of the loader just before bed. That worked pretty well, which was surprising to me.True to form, once I dug into the magic cube containing all the control levers and such, I found several items sitting there all wide-eyed and begging for my attention.... kinda like a box of puppies.I trudged forth and fixed everything, so that was just a brilliant opportunity more than anything else. So now all the control rods are new - every one of the old ones had beat up threads and amateur weld attempts and the like on them, and the valve switch necessitated new rod lengths for that anyway. The rod ball ends are all new too. There is a kind of friction bar to hold the drive lever in position which had come totally detached and was just flailing around inside which I fixed up to work well again. The centering springs for the drive lever were way to large and way to strong which made it pretty hard on your wrist to try to turn the dang thing. A handful of other boring details. All that is fixed. yaaay.I just now carefully started it up, being prepared to switch it right back off if it started lurching around or something. No such disaster. It started up without any odd motions, so I slowly moved the drive lever around and it worked predictable, and sooooo much easier with the fixed spring issue and sooooo much more control with the worn out connectors replaced. It worked before, but I think it's going to be much more pleasurable now.Then I turned my attention to the bucket controls. Oh man these are sweet! The old valve just felt kinda " soggy" and sticky compared to the new one. Comparing the two, this new one is simply effortless. And like the drive levers, there is almost zero play now so combined with the freer, lighter feel, it's a lot easier to control. Also, the center detent is snappier even though it has lighter motion, so it just gives an all-around more solid feel and experience.It got dark on me for tonight, but tomorrow I'm going to take it for a longer outdoor spin and hook up & try out the auger, which is all ready to go as well.I'll undoubtedly need more in the future, but thanks to all for the advice and encouragement so far. A little success sure makes for a great day. I'll post a picture or two tomorrow.</blockquote>

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