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Message: <blockquote data-quote="HarryN" data-source="post: 67432" data-attributes="member: 6128"><p>I have a 1999 763 so I don't know if this helps you. I just when through this. Here's my take. I destroyed my gland nut when trying to remove from cylinder. I was pissed. It looks like such a simple job, and it is IF the gland nut comes off ok. As you can see by my picture the threads were completely stripped off the nut and it messed the threads up in the cylinder as well. We were able to fix the cylinder threads as it was all the aluminum that was galled inside the steel cylinder. Anyway, after using a 10 foot cheater pipe and a pipe wrench we got the gland nut removed. Two things: 1) There just is NOT enough material on the end of that gland nut to get the pipe wrench to grip it without messing up the cylinder itself - What a crappy design. Gland nut removal tools just don't cut it. 2) Gland nut is aluminum and the cylinder is steel ....... dis-similar metals are a bitch to work with in cases like this. Really another crappy design! I mean any Hyd Cylinder. It's not Bobcats fault here. Knowing I had to rebuild the tilt cylinder OR buy a new one I too chose to rebuild. BUT, I did not buy any kits until I got it all apart. And, I almost gave up on that. When I had the parts off, I headed to the bobcat dealer to get new ones. I thought I had the right part numbers but noooo I was wrong. Lucky I went there. They matched it all up and off I went. Probably less than an hour job if the gland nut comes off easily. Took me 3 days of fooling around to get this one done. Learned a lot though. Total cost about $20 for the kit and $130 for the gland nut VS about $1,100 for a new cylinder. http://s128.photobucket.com/user/HarryHarley/media/Bobcat%20763/BobcatTiltCylinderRepair3.jpg.html?sort=3&o=0</p></blockquote><p></p>

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