I ran our JD vac planter for the first time this year with my 3545 MF tractor. Used to pull it with the 4450, and even the 4430 in the early years of the planters' life. Worked fine with the open center. Both JD's are closed center, but my MF is open. Oil temp is going to be higher with the open center. It's just a fact of physics. It's going be important to make sure to route the discharge the return flow directly to sump. If you just hook the discharge back to the service valve outlet, some of this extremely hot oil is going to be recycled back into the charge circuit. A fairly large portion is routed directly back to the intake side of the Hyd pump, without the benefit of cooling in the sump. Dumping 100% of return to sump at least ensures some cooling before starting over again. a open center in neutral makes very little pressure in the circuit. Very little heat, very little drag. When you pull the lever, ALL the oil in the circuit is forced down the work path, and if the work is less than what is being supplied, then the relief valve dumps the excess back to sump. Oil flowing over either the work, or the relief is going to make pressure (system rating) and this is where the heat comes from. Neat thing about the closed center, is that they only supply the exact amount of volume as what the work requires. No gobs of excess flowing over a relief valve making even more heat! Even on our 4430, we were told to dump the return directly to sump. My 8 row planter uses a tiny orbit motor, and the 4430 was able to keep up. Apparently, by the time the 50 series came about, it's ok to just use the service coupler for return. It had higher capacity pump. Closed center also relies on a certain amount of return to supply the intake side of the pump. Ever notice when you lift a single action cylinder dump wagon, how an early JD will chatter after lifting about halfway up? It needs time to recharge its internal reservoir.. and can continue after waiting just a couple seconds. It's 'starved' because a single action cylinder doesn't send return back to the intake side of the pump. |