Please allow me to clear up some misinformation on this subject in this thread and other threads there have been about these couplings. The Cub Cadet couplings are not the same as what is commonly available at farm supply, auto supply, hydraulic shops, and farm equipment dealers. Yes, many Case-IH dealers can and will still order the CC P/N for you, but what they might have on hand will most likely not be correct.
There are two basic hydraulic couplings generally available in most hydraulic or farm supply stores and neither type is what is used on these Cub Cadets as original equipment. The Cub Cadet male coupling is a Parker D-202 and the only place I was able to find them in quantities of only 2 ea. was on eBay from 1 seller, other than from Cub Cadet at twice the price.
These other readily available industry standard couplings may certainly be used if you also change the female coupling, but the industry standard female couplings may not have the retaining ring groove to make a nice clean and secure attachment of the coupling through the holes in the tractor frame.
A couple posters above listed or provided links to specific P/Ns and I have no knowledge if those specific P/Ns are actually the right ones. What I know for a fact is that the D-202 is correct because I have used them multiple times where the female couplings were known to be original equipment Cub Cadet. If someone else has some other specific P/N that they know for a fact fits with OEM CC female couplings because they have actually used them in that application then please share.
I know this because I have "been-there, done-that." I needed the male couplings and just assumed they were regular industry standard, so I bought what was at the local farm supply store, which turned out to be wrong. Then I went and got another slightly different industry standard type based on misinformation from this forum. Then, after getting two different types of the wrong couplings because of assumptions and misinformation on this and other CC forums, I finally got the right ones. Note the couplings are still readily available from CC sources with the CC P/N, and they aren't that expensive. If you get those they will definitely fit with OEM female couplings.
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