QD keeps disconnecting

[Smiles79]

Has anyone used this style of QD and clamp before? The same hose keeps disconnecting itself. I think it pushes against the clamp and releases itself.is it worn out or am I doing something wrong?

https://imgur.com/a/i9BlhV8

 

[Texasmark]

It moves both way. Have them on my Fords. You can push the female into the male with your hands and brute force and likewise you can remove them by just jerking on them. I'd say that bend you have in the picture is your problem. Increase the size of the bend and your problem should disappear. If it doesn't the connector may be worn out.

Be careful when and if you buy new. Some new ones on Fords, held in a bracket like that require you to reach behind the connector, grasping the tractor's hose and pushing it toward you causing the female to open up so you can take the other hand and insert the male. If you want to do that, up to you.

That bracket clamps around the outer shell of the female. It is designed to open up if force is applied to the implement male like would happen if your implement came loose. I like those connectors. I have another non-Ford, recent model without that feature and the implement came off one day. It ripped the female threads and the connection out of the junction box where the implement mates up to the tractor. After that expensive fiasco, I put a heavy chain on that implement and if it comes loose again it won't hurt anything.

I have a couple of CIH tractors and they have the same functioning female as the Ford, just a little different mounting arrangement.

 

[Smiles79]

Thanks for the explanation. That makes sense. I may just try to get a 90 degree fitting like is on the other.

 

[Mobuck]

Those 'QD' connections can and will wear which may allow the female to release with very little effort. QD couplers aren't expensive so replace them. The comment about the short bend is valid as it puts more side load on the release connection.

 

[BarnyardEngineering]

Honestly if all is good, you have to tug on those pretty hard to get them to come apart, so either you have a bad coupler, bad tip, wrong tip, not getting it connected fully, or something is tugging it out on you.

 

[Smiles79]

Thanks everyone!

 

[Not db4600]

Thanks everyone!

I have similar on the 4600. I tightened the bracket that holds the females to minimize the swivel.
I assume that’s the line that feeds the loader?

I’m never quite sure whether to feed that line around or through the 3pt arm. I would agree that a 90 and a new end would cure that.

 

[Smiles79]

I have similar on the 4600. I tightened the bracket that holds the females to minimize the swivel.
I assume that’s the line that feeds the loader?

I’m never quite sure whether to feed that line around or through the 3pt arm. I would agree that a 90 and a new end would cure that.

Thanks for the input. I plan on getting some fittings to make it a 90

 

[showcrop]

I found a build up of dust and oil under the covers that had gotten hard and interfered with free movement.