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Message: <blockquote data-quote="cchardwick" data-source="post: 5705" data-attributes="member: 758"><p>Here's an update: I took the cylinders off of the skid steer but could not get them apart. I ordered a spanner wrench from the dealer and it was the wrong size and had to send it back. So I bought a large pipe wrench instead and even with heating it with a propane torch and cranking on it with a four foot extension on the pipe wrench I just couldn't get it apart. So I took it to the dealer. He spent hours and it and charged me $250 (ouch) to put new seals in them. I talked to the guy who did it and he said that he broke his spanner wrench taking them apart WOW. He worked on it for some time with no luck and finally got his boss involved to help him. He finally heated it up with an acetylene torch, he said the propane torch wasn't hot enough. It looks like he heated it up red hot because all the paint was gone on the ends about four inches or so. He said he about knocked himself out when the spanner wrench broke LOL. I got them back on the machine and they seem to be working just fine! I talked to the guy who sold me the skid steer and he said that some people use lock tight on the threads making them impossible to get apart without high heat.</p></blockquote><p></p>