About: I am by nature a geek and am not ashamed to say so. I decided to create this instructable account because I figured in my learning process I could also teach others. Feel free to look at my existing instruct…

I bought my first tractor recently an early model 1968 John Deere 3020 tractor with the power shift transmission. The tractor came with a front end loader that had its hydraulic lines plugged into the rear ports. The bonus is that it has a front end loader the bad side is that if I want to run any attachment that has hydraulics I cant, without unplugging the loader at least. Since this is an early model JD 3020 there is no power beyond block which would be a pretty simple way to get the front end loader off of the rear hydraulics. So I reached out into a few internet forums and found some really helpful people to help me with this project. If it wasn't for the people at Haytalk.com and yesterdaystractors.com I would not be able to write this instructable. A special thanks to "Tx Jim" for getting me started and answering questions. There is not a lot of documentation on doing this specifically on the PowerShift Transmission so I thought I would put the whole project here.

This instructable will be a step by step with images, video, part numbers and approximate cost of completing. I was going to do this at the same time as a hydraulic fluid and filter change but we will do that in another instructable.

Please understand I am by no means an expert on tractors and again if it wasn't for the kind folks on the previously mentioned forums I wouldn't be doing this at all.

Also please note while I wanted to be able to video this entire process I skipped around a little bit due to the amount of hydraulic fluid on me and everything else I didn't want to damage my camera.