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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ster1" data-source="post: 120219" data-attributes="member: 20800">Nice work Randy! I went to the shop today because I was bored and fired up the 632 to put it through its paces. As soon as I lifted the boom, it started struggling and almost seeming to jam up. I shut it down and found one of those hard lines in the engine compartment blown, and oil everywhere. It was one that ran next to the battery mount, and it had years of dirt and stuff packed in there. Since those are steel lines, and dirt holds moisture… pop. Oh well. I can fix it, no big deal. What I also noticed is my gland nut on one of the lift cylinders leaking. I went to take it off, and stripped it right away. Are those gland nuts / cylinder caps aluminum? Aluminum caps on a steel cylinder? Never seen such a thing! Those have been on there for almost 40 years. Those threads have got to be all corroded like crazy. I'm going to have to weld aluminum blocks to the gland nuts and make a wrench out of a piece of bar to get those off. Geez.</blockquote>