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753c aux hydraulic question
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<blockquote data-quote="skidsteer.ca" data-source="post: 2797" data-attributes="member: 307"><p>Dawg Your rh grapple arm is leaking down because the cylinder on that side is shot. It need new internal seals to prevent oil from bypassing from one side of the piston to the other. This is also the reason you can't hang onto objects. Your should have only one green aux hyd light on when using attachments with cylinders. And you use the RH side thumb switch to open or close the cylinder(s). If you close it and it loses pressure that is most likely a bypassing cylinder. Two green aux hyd lights and the finger trigger is for running attachments that need continous flow like a brush cutter motor,or a backhoe attachment. If used to run a cylinder the actions you describe are normal. By the way how do you open the grapple? Go back to using the thumb switch? Anyway, rebuild your rh cylinder, use the thumb switch and you'll be in business. The cylinder must have gone south since you got it from your brother? if it did not leak shut on his machine. I replied to your other post with a description of how to test the cylinder. regards Ken</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="skidsteer.ca, post: 2797, member: 307"] Dawg Your rh grapple arm is leaking down because the cylinder on that side is shot. It need new internal seals to prevent oil from bypassing from one side of the piston to the other. This is also the reason you can't hang onto objects. Your should have only one green aux hyd light on when using attachments with cylinders. And you use the RH side thumb switch to open or close the cylinder(s). If you close it and it loses pressure that is most likely a bypassing cylinder. Two green aux hyd lights and the finger trigger is for running attachments that need continous flow like a brush cutter motor,or a backhoe attachment. If used to run a cylinder the actions you describe are normal. By the way how do you open the grapple? Go back to using the thumb switch? Anyway, rebuild your rh cylinder, use the thumb switch and you'll be in business. The cylinder must have gone south since you got it from your brother? if it did not leak shut on his machine. I replied to your other post with a description of how to test the cylinder. regards Ken [/QUOTE]
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