john deere 425 quick hitch hose routing

If you have color coded caps on the female couplers (tractor ports) use this:
Yellow: connect to angling cylinder front hose.
Silver/Gray: connect to angling cylinder rear hose.
Black: Lift cylinder top hose.
Green: Lift cylinder bottom hose.

If you have no color coded caps on the tractor ports use this as reference:
Yellow= inboard upper port.
Silver/Gray=outboard upper port.
Black=inboard lower port.
Green= outboard lower port.

itsagaas said:

If you have color coded caps on the female couplers (tractor ports) use this:
Yellow: connect to angling cylinder front hose.
Silver/Gray: connect to angling cylinder rear hose.
Black: Lift cylinder top hose.
Green: Lift cylinder bottom hose.

If you have no color coded caps on the tractor ports use this as reference:
Yellow= inboard upper port.
Silver/Gray=outboard upper port.
Black=inboard lower port.
Green= outboard lower port.

Click to expand...

You my friend are a life saver, thank you so very much!

Or you could just try all combinations, there are only 24 of them. I think that is what the dealer did on mine. They spent about an hour on it and still got it wrong. In fairness, the hitch was from a 1 or 2 series and had the wrong color caps. I doubt they actually tried all 24 combinations, but they definitely tried some that obviously wouldn't work.

You want the lift/up/down to be on the lower control and angle/left/right to be on the upper one (that doesn't have the float function). They got the hoses on the right valves, but didn't get one or both sets on the right connection of the right valve.

Mike, NOW go to box store and get colors of electrical tape to match connections... you can use white for the silver/gray connection.... and a can of parts cleaner if you don't have any. Clean hose and collar on female and wrap a bad of colored tape on each. The tape will fall off at some point, but you'll still got 50+ feet of tape! Bob