Houston, we have lift off, I hope this is last chapter in this saga, the original trouble was repaired with a new O ring on the piston in just a few minutes, the rest was a self inflicted wound, I had the sheet metal off in prep for a paint job, whatever you do DO NOT move the the 3 point lever lower than it is supposed to go with the sheet metal on, if you do it will in turn cause the wobbling pin to jump out of a pre-engineered slot and jump up behind another internal lever causing the lift not to work, it is hard to see and determine where its supposed to go, another good thing NOT TO DO is take a dowel and push the plunger in the in the control valve in while the engine is running, (trying to determine what causes oil to come to the piston), this will in turn release a small flood of oil, covering you and your assistant((grandson) and everhting forward from that point to be covered with oil. I didn't know jack when I started this and now I know just e-nuff to be dangerous, but it is lifting.