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Well Tazza you were right it was one of the tilt cylinders. The nut on the piston was lose causing the seal to break which caused the internal leak. I had never taken a cylinder apart, it was straight forward. I got some new seals and installed them. The bobcat is back in action. Question...

With the bucket attached, it immediately starts dropping, and without the bucket attached and with the tractor off, in a few minutes the cylinders will be completely extended out. Now that I look at it, what you say really makes sense. I think one of the cylinders must be leaking internally. I...

I hope it's that simple Tazza, but it kind of feels like there is a valve that is stuck open or something. There is no loss of power but the cylinders will not stay put. I don't think both tilt cylinder went out at the same time. I'm going to see if I can talk to one of the local bobcat techs...

The skidsteer has been working fine for the last couple of weeks, but yesterday after about 5 hrs. of work the tilt stopped holding pressure. By this I mean, that it does not hold a still position and slowly goes down. It still lifts though. Any idea what can be going on here? -Thanks

There are not codes at the moment. Where does that spool lock solenoid go? Is it the one the pedal activates? Thanks

So I took the engine out together as an assembly, ended up being a fried piston and broken rings. Luckily the cylinder was fine. I went ahead and ordered the piston and rings for that cylinder, and replaced the other piston rings while I was a it. I sent the head to the machine shop and had the...

I have a 2000 763 that stopped lifting this past weekend. Everything else works. When the seat bar is down, all lights indicate that all systems are go. The pedal that controls the lift feels like its locked though. It used to do this intermittently before and I would just disconnect and...

Thanks Bobcatdan for your input. And Tazza you make it sound so easy, what issue were you having with your 753?

Yeah I figured I would use a cherry picker to pull the motor. I noticed in the manual it said nothing about removing the fan assembly so I'm guessing leaving it in tact would not be an issue.

I will be removing the the engine from my bobcat 763, and would like to see if anyone has taken on this task. I looked over the workshop manual and it says that I should develop a specific tool to remove the engine. Any advice or input would be greatly appreciated. ,Thanks

Thanks for the replies guys, I'll have to weight out my options and see what my next move will be.

Its using oil, the coolant is fine...

Well it started to do it gradually but yesterday I turned on the machine and it felt like it was misfiring with the throttle all the way down. I noticed a cloud of smoke, not from the tail pipe, but from a vent tube coming out of the engine. I took the valve cover cap off and noticed it too...

The centering spring is the one that actually gets pushed by the lever/pedal? One thing that I noticed was that the connector coming of the "button" the actuates the lift, when it would stop working I would disconnect and connect it back and it would start working again, however lately its...

I just recently fixed a fuel issue I was having with my bobcat thanks to some of the members on here. Now Im having a problem with the lift arms/left pedal getting stuck at times. I do not suspect its the pump because it lifts fine, once the tractor gets warm its starts to do that. Also nothing...