www.tjprc.org SCOPUS Indexed Journal editor@tjprc.org ANALYSIS AND SOLUTION FOR RESOLVING HYDRAULIC HOSE FAILURES IN BACKHOE LOADERS SHAUN THOMAS CHERIAN & Dr. S. SURESH KUMAR Department of Mechanical Engineering, Saveetha School of Engineering, Saveetha Institute of Medical and Technical Sciences, Chennai, TamilNadu, India ABSTRACT This project describes about the case study of hoses in field issues and means to reduce the warranty claims of hose failures. The study was done by analysing how and why the hose fails in the Backhoe loaders and explores solution for rectification. In backhoe loaders, hoses plays a vital role, as only with the help of hoses, the backhoe loaders will be able to move the cylinders to operate the bucket and the hoe. To ensure optimum hose performance, we should have pressure or vacuum characteristics of the system, operating temperature, flexibility required in the application, types of medium being transmitted and environmental condition with which the hose exterior must withstand. This project covers a major area to exhibit the exact application of root cause analysis to diminish product defects. This project work also discusses implementation and solution aspects in product area by instructing the suppliers to rectify regarding the field failure hose. The hoses will be constructed with different number of braids. Based on flow requirement, hose size will be selected. KEYWORDS: Hoses, Backhoe Loaders, The Burst Pressure Test, The Proof Pressure Test, The Hold Test & The Warp Test Received: Aug 01, 2019; Accepted: Aug 31, 2019; Published: Dec 11, 2019; Paper Id.: IJMPERDDEC201985 1. INTRODUCTION An excavator loader is an intriguing creation, as it is truly three bits of advancement equipment combined into one unit. An excavator loader could be a tractor, a loader, an excavator. Each piece of equipment is fit to a particular sort of work. On an ordinary structure site, the excavator overseer as a general rule uses every one of the three sections to deal with business. The focus structure of an excavator loader is the tractor. Much equivalent to the tractors that farmers use in their fields, the excavator tractor is proposed to move adequately over a wide scope of disagreeable scene. It has an amazing, turbocharged diesel engine, colossal, extreme tires and a taxi with basic coordinating controls (a controlling wheel, brakes, and so on). Similar to the way that the loader is associated inside the front, the excavator is associated inside the back. These two parts serve altogether different functions. The loader can do a few distinctive things. In a few applications, it is used as a kind of a tremendous, ground- breaking dustpan and it is utilized to get and convey enormous measure of free material. The excavator is the primary apparatus of the excavator loader. Its acclimated inquiry out hard, smaller material, regularly earth, or to raise critical masses, similar to a sewer box. It will raise this material and drop it in an exceedingly heap to the aspect of the opening. The stabilizer legs are pivotal to excavator activity, since they take the brunt of the weight when an excavator is burrowing. Without the stabilizer legs, the weight of a huge burden or the descending power of exhuming into the base would strain the haggles, and furthermore, the entire tractor would ricochet always. The stabilizer legs have two sorts of "shoes," with the goal that they can be planted safely on both soil and asphalt to Original Article International Journal of Mechanical and Production Engineering Research and Development (IJMPERD) ISSN(P): 2249–6890; ISSN(E): 2249–8001 Vol. 9, Issue 6, Dec 2019, 1021–1034 © TJPRC Pvt. Ltd.