Hydraulic break away bracket mounting on M5

Alan K

Well-known Member
Does anyone have a service bulletin or an actual picture from a manual or literature where the hydraulic break away brackets are mounted on a later M5? The 5 Stars and others (445, early 4 Stars) mounted on the right rear stud of the tel-o-flo and just above the drain plug. Being they changed the hydraulic pump plumbing there is a pipe that runs along that area and is in the way. First picture is on a 5 Star, second an M602 from implement literature but not sure how they get around the pipe...unless the M602s don't have the pipe like the M5s do....
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I dont think there was a standard place to mount them. If I remember correctly they were an after thought when it was discovered that when the plow tripped and unhooked from the tractor, that the hoses had to disconnect too. I remember dad/uncle finding that out the hard way. They fabricated and mounted the automatic disconnects at a convenient place.
 
MM had a specific place for them on the letter tractors with the spring hitch plows, but never really explained where they installed them on the later models. Kind of like you say, you will figure it out lol. This was the set up on the letter series and where they were on the 445, which is from a service bulletin:
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Ok, I'm betting most were that way as the break away set up was extra money I believe. The part numbers for the two piece support
irons were part numbers 11A11456 and 11A11460, which look like this with the clamps for the couplers mounted on the end:
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I should have said that I bought mine used so it's hard to tell what it had new. It was about 20 years old when I got it.

This post was edited by J.Wondergem on 03/17/2023 at 07:24 am.
 

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