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I blew a hose on my Kabota today, cost $44.50 at Napa to make one. Small 3/8" hose and 3' long. There are probably 10 similar hoses on this loader attachment. Where can I get them cheaper? They are all the same age, so once one blew, the others are just waiting.

Life would be a helluva lot easier if hydraulic lines never blew or leaked.

We run all older equipment and replace several a year.


Don't worry, depending on use you might not blow another one on that particular machine in years.


We get all of ours made at Carquest or the local co-op.

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Tractor supply has a large selection of standard hydraulic hoses. I'd give them a try.


We have a komatsu mini excavator that has needed hoses left and right. The fittings are metric and not really comon. We have the local hydraulic shop make them for us. He charges a pretty fair price.

When someone builds you a hose the type of fitting plays a large part of the overall price. Some places charge quite a bit for the crimp (labor/machine use). Another local place wants $7 a crimp so each hose is at least $14.

Some of the proprietary fittings we use are through the roof.

Please be careful using that loader with bad hoses. When a hose pops they free fall, it is scary, whatever is under it will be smashed.

Being a Kabota, I grabbed every metric wrench I had close to the size and headed for the tractor. This doesn't happen next to your shop you know.

Turns out they are all American fittings. The guy at Napa said they were all standard fittings. I was concerns cause one end had a 90 degree sweep fitting, not just a 90. But they had it, and it fit perfect.

I know I can get standard length hoses with straight ends, but I would have to get adapters to fit.

I'll call around and price out what I just had made since I know what ends it has. There is also an online place, but I would have to know how they measure length.

I can just imagine another will go at the worst time, yesterday wasn't a bad time.

Man you got "hosed" they should have came and got it and come put it back on for that price !!!!!!!!!!

Big R or Tractor Supply has them here in Colorado Springs.Might not be the exact length,but you can make them work for a lot less money

I was using my friends Kubota tractor last year when a hose blew, sounds about the same size as the one you replaced. I went to our local industrial hose supplier and it was $32 to make up the replacement hose.

Speaking from experience, it is a good idea to make sure that the pump is turned off before allowing the person holding the hose, more or less pointing in your direction, to uncouple the connection.

Don't know about Kubota but for my KD loader on a JD 3020, I was able to buy a hose kit to replace all of the hoses on the loader cheaper buying them one at a time. Mine has several different lengths.

Buy a crimper, some hose and some fittings and make them yourself. Just kidding, for the most part. The crimper is a pretty heafty initial investment, but after that, the rest is easy with some research. Just need to learn fitting types, i.e JIC JIS, etc.

A hydraulic crimper is about $2500, fittings are about $7- $20 each and hose is not cheap. How many hoses are you going to need to make to break even? Think I will buy them

Tech tip from S.E. Az

.....These Roadside "Hose Joints",....e.g. auto parts stores seldom flush out a newly made line before handing it over to you.

They cut their bulk stock with chop saws, and the crap that the nipple end of the new fitting than pushes into it's dim recesses is not hydraulic system friendly.

Running a can of cheap aerosol parts cleaner through your "new" hose prior to hanging it is a SMART policy.



GTC

good point Cross, also check the crimp sleeve and flare for damage before paying

A follow up to this thread. I ordered 3 hoses from an online place called universalhoseandfittings.com. As a direct comparison, one of the hoses was exactly what I had made at NAPA. $44.50 at NAPA, $17.87 at this place. I had to pay sales tax since they are in VA as I am, and they shipped it in a medium flat rate box, which wasn't full by any means, but the whole package was $57.90. I only ordered 3 to test them out, just finished putting them on, fit perfectly. I will measure up the rest of them and get them made. The shipping will be more in line with more hoses in the same box.

Good info!

Thanks Wayne