HUDCO Manufacturing, est 1980

Custom Auxiliary Hydraulic Kits for Excavators and Backhoes

Hudco manufactures custom auxiliary hydraulic kits for excavator and backhoe attachments. We design the most efficient, cost-effective, and installation-friendly aftermarket hydraulic kits on the market. With over 35 years of designing kits, Hudco has an extensive library of kits to fit almost any machine and attachment combination. Hudco builds each excavator auxiliary hydraulic kit, backhoe auxiliary kit, and backhoe hydraulic kit for a specific machine and attachment. Whether you need to run a hammer, thumb, compactor, or rotating shear, Hudco has the kit for you. redundant. As a custom tube fabricator, we build the tubes and kit parts to fit, so your install goes in cleanly.

What Is an Auxiliary Hydraulic Kit?

A hydraulic kit is the set of tubes, hoses, valves, and fittings that lets an excavator or backhoe run a hydraulic attachment such as a hammer, thumb, compactor, or rotating shear.

A Hudco hydraulic kit is built for your machine and your attachment. Tell us your machine brand, model, and attachment, and we will build the right kit.

Auxiliary Hydraulic Kit Specifications

See what is standard, optional, or not offered in a Hudco hydraulic kit for hammers, compactors, mowers, thumbs, shears, rotation, tilting buckets, and combination setups.

Specifications

Specifications ✅ = Standard 🔵 = Optional ❌ = Not Offered

	Hammers/Compactors	Mowers	Thumbs	Shears/Crushers	Rotation	Tilting Buckets	Combination
Tubes & Hoses	❌	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅
Shutoff Valves	✅	✅	🔵	✅	✅	✅	✅
Quick Disconnects	🔵	🔵	🔵	🔵	🔵	🔵	🔵
Pilot Valve	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅
Relief Valve(s)	🔵	🔵	🔵	🔵	🔵	🔵	🔵
Clamps, Fittings, Brackets	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅
ORFS, JIC, Flange	🔵	🔵	🔵	🔵	🔵	🔵	🔵
Return Selector Valve	❌	❌	❌	❌	❌	❌	✅
Hand Controls	❌	❌	🔵	🔵	🔵	🔵	🔵
Foot Controls	✅	✅	❌	❌	❌	✅	🔵
Case Drain Line	❌	🔵	❌	❌	🔵	❌	❌
Proportional Controls	❌	❌	🔵	🔵	🔵	🔵	🔵
Return Line Filters	🔵	❌	❌	❌	❌	❌	❌

Choose the Right Auxiliary Hydraulic Kit

Hudco builds kits for many machine makes and many attachment types. Pick your machine and attachment below, and we will build the right excavator auxiliary hydraulic kit or backhoe hydraulic kit.

Machine Makes

Doosan
Daewoo
Hitachi
John Deere
Cat
Case
Link-Belt
Ford
Hyundai
Koehring
Komatsu
Samsung
Volvo
Terex
New Holland
Kobelco

Attachment Types

Hammers
Thumbs
Grapples
Augers
Mowers
Compactors
Rotating Shears
Others

1-WAY for Breaker, Hammer, Compactor, Rotary Cutter, Saw

These attachments process oil in one direction and require low or standard back pressure on the return.

2-WAY for Thumb, Shear, Crusher, Grapple, Processor, Rotation

These attachments process oil in two directions and require low or standard back pressure on the return..

1- OR 2-WAY

With the addition of special valves, we offer kits that are easily converted from 1 or 2 way, allowing your excavator to operate various attachments, for example, a shear and a breaker. One hydraulic kit can then serve more than one attachment.

SECOND or THIRD MEMBER

A second-member attachment is mounted directly to the boom in place of the stick (arm). A third-member attachment is mounted to the end of the stick, utilizing the machine’s existing boom and stick configuration.