Installing
Attaching Backhoe To Tractor
c CAUTION: Avoid injury! Operator must be seated in tractor seat when positioning tractor for backhoe installation.
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NOTE: Front hanger end of subframe must be below level of front hanger on tractor before tractor is positioned.
1. Back tractor into position over backhoe subframe.
3. Connect backhoe hydraulic hoses:
a. Disconnect Power Beyond hose (A) from female coupler (B) and connect to backhoe hose.
b. Connect backhoe hose with male coupler to female coupler (B).
4. Start engine and run at slow idle.
5. Use stabilizer control levers to raise or lower stabilizers as needed to position hooks (C) on backhoe subframe in line with draft link pins (D) on tractor rear mounting support.
6. Back tractor until subframe hooks seat firmly into draft link pins.
8. Remove backhoe boom lock pin (E).
Picture Note: Installation shown on 2520. Hanger may vary slightly in appearance.
9. Use boom and stabilizer control levers to alternately raise the boom and stabilizers, pivoting the subframe on the draft link pins until the holes in the subframe front end (F) align with holes in front hanger (G).
10. Install step pins (H) in front hanger and secure with locking pins (I).
11. Check to be sure hydraulic hoses are routed away from pinch points.
12. Remove backhoe swing lock pin (J).
13. From the operator’s seat, bleed the system by doing the following:
a. Raise and lower stabilizers.
c. Extend and retract dipperstick.
e. Swing boom from side to side.