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<blockquote data-quote="Fishfiles" data-source="post: 48033" data-attributes="member: 782"><p>Harry -----I see your right around the corner from me , I live in Lacombe , don't have a video for you on resealing a cylinder , but if you ever have a cylinder to do you could see it in person , I am a mobile heavy equipment mechanic since 1976 that will come to your site and do it for you , I have a shop on wheels and I am building a bigger better one right now , I worked for Boh Brothers and B+G Crane and was the service manager for Kastner Rentals for many years , Tuff Equipment was Kasnter Rentals , now it is Volvo Rents , I'll do all types of contruction equipment , Cat , Deere , Komatsu , Case , Takeuchi , what ever , Bobcat is my bread and butter ------------------------ to do a boom cylinder on the vertical lift booms you install the safety bar on the opposite side of the cylinder you want to do , it helps to have an extra boom support if it is the opposite side that the boom support is mounted on the machine that you need to do , after the boom is support in the up position , loosen the bottom hose going to the cylinder to relieve any pressure and suction so the rod will pull out the casing easily , unscrew the gland nut , you either use a pin spanner wrench or if it is not frozen in there a large pair of channel locks will surfice , unpin the chrome end of the rod , take out the grease fitting as you need as much room as you can get and you can pull the rod out the casing ----------------- if the gland nut and or piston nut is not rusted or galled I could drive to Covington and reseal the cylinder in 2 hours ----------- there is always a worst case seniro and maybe 1 in 10 heat may need to be applied to the casing to loosen the gland ,I have had a few really bad ones where the cylinder has to be removed and taken to a machine shop and the gland nut cut from the casing in a lathe , threads reshaped and a new gland nut /head installed</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Fishfiles, post: 48033, member: 782"] Harry -----I see your right around the corner from me , I live in Lacombe , don't have a video for you on resealing a cylinder , but if you ever have a cylinder to do you could see it in person , I am a mobile heavy equipment mechanic since 1976 that will come to your site and do it for you , I have a shop on wheels and I am building a bigger better one right now , I worked for Boh Brothers and B+G Crane and was the service manager for Kastner Rentals for many years , Tuff Equipment was Kasnter Rentals , now it is Volvo Rents , I'll do all types of contruction equipment , Cat , Deere , Komatsu , Case , Takeuchi , what ever , Bobcat is my bread and butter ------------------------ to do a boom cylinder on the vertical lift booms you install the safety bar on the opposite side of the cylinder you want to do , it helps to have an extra boom support if it is the opposite side that the boom support is mounted on the machine that you need to do , after the boom is support in the up position , loosen the bottom hose going to the cylinder to relieve any pressure and suction so the rod will pull out the casing easily , unscrew the gland nut , you either use a pin spanner wrench or if it is not frozen in there a large pair of channel locks will surfice , unpin the chrome end of the rod , take out the grease fitting as you need as much room as you can get and you can pull the rod out the casing ----------------- if the gland nut and or piston nut is not rusted or galled I could drive to Covington and reseal the cylinder in 2 hours ----------- there is always a worst case seniro and maybe 1 in 10 heat may need to be applied to the casing to loosen the gland ,I have had a few really bad ones where the cylinder has to be removed and taken to a machine shop and the gland nut cut from the casing in a lathe , threads reshaped and a new gland nut /head installed [/QUOTE]
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