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Message: <blockquote data-quote="FLAKMAN_5000" data-source="post: 127292" data-attributes="member: 23349">As the title states, anyone have pointers on how to remove the lift cylinders on a T870?Recently bought my first (personal use) CTL. One of the lift cylinders blew out the seals and pushed a good amount of hydro fluid out, to the point where it needs to be refilled. I have new seal kits for all the cylinders and am attacking the lift cylinders first since the one cylinder puts the machine out of commission. It would barely chirp the boom up when it was full. Took a good amount of the fluid to get it loaded back on the trailer and I'de rather not dump a bunch of fluid out again booming back up if I were to refill with sacrificial fluid now.I'm slowly jacking up the lift arm with a bottle jack. Unless I'm missing something, I'm going to have to jack the arm pretty much all the way up to snake the cylinders out. Everything around the cylinder is box welded.Unfortunately I dont have a way to lift it with another piece of equipment or anything. Am I missing something or is slow and steady with the bottle jack and plenty of dunnage the way to do it?</blockquote>