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Message: <blockquote data-quote="skidsteer.ca" data-source="post: 27634" data-attributes="member: 307">Brian I think you will be fine without the seals. I never put them back in on my 553 or 853 project. I just bored the centers out of a few flat washers and shimmed the side play out with them. The grease stay inside better then factory imo because the bobtach can only rotate. The side slop allowed dirt to get down on the pin then mix with the grease which I'm sure was worse by far.The machines with the single tilt cylinder all had problems with eye on the rod end. You likely good for 1000 or more hours again b4 any work will be needed once the slop is gone. I machined new eyes for mine and welded them to the bobtach. But only used it @ 250 hours when I sold it and it seemed to be holding up fine at that point.I do think that pin will always wear first on these loaders, heck they wear fist on the loaders with 2 tilt cylinders which have 2 pins the size of yours. It is just a high wear point. I try to grease mine twice a day at that pin if I'm doing alot of gravel spreading or a job that requires fully stroking the tilt cylinders, that pin just rotates too much to last a long time.Ken</blockquote>