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Tilt Ram ---a Lot of Free Play Can it be fixed?
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<blockquote data-quote="skidsteer.ca" data-source="post: 2563" data-attributes="member: 307"><p>Generally we keep the chrome shaft cool by wraping a wet rag around it as a heat sink, may need to keep wetting it as you weld. Also keeps weld splatter from sticking to the chrome and ruining the smooth surface where the seal runs. It would be a good tim to repack the cylinder as well but this is up to you. To test the internal seals for leakage... Hook your air compressor to the cylinder port that retracts the rod, plug the port that extends the cylinder. Put the pressure to it. It will retract, if the seals are perfect it will stay retracted. If the are worn and bypassing it will retract and then in a few seconds to a minute it will begin to extend again. If it does the internal seals are leaking, the sooner it comes back out the worse the leak, (it does this becasue the surface area on the extend side of the cylinder is greater then the piston area on the retract side, (by the area of the crome shaft diameter))and the sooner you bucket will dump without you touching the tilt pedal. Ken</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="skidsteer.ca, post: 2563, member: 307"] Generally we keep the chrome shaft cool by wraping a wet rag around it as a heat sink, may need to keep wetting it as you weld. Also keeps weld splatter from sticking to the chrome and ruining the smooth surface where the seal runs. It would be a good tim to repack the cylinder as well but this is up to you. To test the internal seals for leakage... Hook your air compressor to the cylinder port that retracts the rod, plug the port that extends the cylinder. Put the pressure to it. It will retract, if the seals are perfect it will stay retracted. If the are worn and bypassing it will retract and then in a few seconds to a minute it will begin to extend again. If it does the internal seals are leaking, the sooner it comes back out the worse the leak, (it does this becasue the surface area on the extend side of the cylinder is greater then the piston area on the retract side, (by the area of the crome shaft diameter))and the sooner you bucket will dump without you touching the tilt pedal. Ken [/QUOTE]
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