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miko0618

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My bucket has small clearish tubes going to the joystick. Are they plastic air lines that actuate the lower controls? Are they fragile? Do they get brittle?

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Its a hi ranger linesman 2

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Are they going to the saftey (dead man's) lever? The lever you have to squeeze before the upper controls are activated? They could be going to a fast idle, going to a engine kill switch...
 
No. There is a line for each control on the joystick. They go to the controls on the base of the boom. So when I swivel, I can see my joystick moves the lower control.

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Those if I remember correct are low pressure, they should have a compression fitting at the joystick and lower boom. Mine became brittle. And would leak causing the upper controls to become slow... on mine their was a 7/16 bolt that you could bleed them located on the lower boom if you got air in them. And they were brittle and would brake in cold weather... I thought they had fluid in them. Air would cause problems...
 
That sounds right. Thanks! I was wondering why not run small rubber lines? I'm thinking I want to replace them.

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I don't think rubber will transfer the pressure... that's why they are hard plastic. I could be wrong though. I was able to cut off the broken part. And you can splice them if you get to short...
 

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