Recent content by minglis

The light has dawned! The snap ring is on the inside of the cylinder barrel! Okay. Now I have to figure out how to drive that gland back past the snap ring without damaging either the gland threads or the piston. Wish me luck!

Oh, and if I'm able to drive the gland back into the cylinder, how do I get anything out of the cylinder? I'll have nothing to hold on to.

"Use a punch to drive the cylinder head (7), down into the cylinder barrel to obtain access to the snap ring.” okay, maybe I'm just being dense, but I don't understand how driving the threaded gland back into the cylinder barrel will give me access to a snap ring. And I have done everything but...

I greatly appreciate your engagement. I assume the gland is the piece with the threads on it. If so, then the gland nut itself comes off relatively easily. But I don't know what to do once I have the nut off. I saw the diagram of the cylinder which is great, but the function of the nut is...

I have a Ford 1215 with a Ford 7106 front loader. I need to replace the seals on the bucket cylinders, but I can't figure out how to get the piston out. I saw one description that identified a small hole above the lock nut, but I can't figure out what to do from there. It said something about...