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I have a JD 855 with a 70A loader. The loader is tired with all the cylinders leaking at various rates. The guy I bought it from had two seal kits for the bucket cylinders, so I jumped in and rebuilt them.
The first cylinder came apart OK, but there was a small burr on it where the snap ring keeps the ram in the cylinder. Not knowing much, I just rebuilt it and carefully pushed it all back together. Big surprise, it started leaking a week later.
So, I took the other cylinder over to a hydraulic repair shop. They took it apart and cleaned away the burr. I also carefully cleaned up the piston that had a bit of a burr on it too. Put it back together and really big surprise, it started leaking about a week later. WTF!!!
Can anybody offer any advice. Seems I might have to redo everything and am not willing to throw good money after bad. I am running low viscosity hydraulic oil from JD. Please help.
Thanks,
Phil
I have a JD 855 with a 70A loader. The loader is tired with all the cylinders leaking at various rates. The guy I bought it from had two seal kits for the bucket cylinders, so I jumped in and rebuilt them.
The first cylinder came apart OK, but there was a small burr on it where the snap ring keeps the ram in the cylinder. Not knowing much, I just rebuilt it and carefully pushed it all back together. Big surprise, it started leaking a week later.
So, I took the other cylinder over to a hydraulic repair shop. They took it apart and cleaned away the burr. I also carefully cleaned up the piston that had a bit of a burr on it too. Put it back together and really big surprise, it started leaking about a week later. WTF!!!
Can anybody offer any advice. Seems I might have to redo everything and am not willing to throw good money after bad. I am running low viscosity hydraulic oil from JD. Please help.
Thanks,
Phil