425 steering cyl question

[weeder]

When changing out the steering cyl do you have to bleed the air out of the lines before hooking them up? And if so, how do you guys normally do this?

 

[Peter 315]

No ..just hook them up and turn the steering wheel..

 

[weeder]

Thank You so much!!

 

[Richard001]

So did you purchase a new one, and from who ?

 

[weeder]

I have one ordered thru amazon hope it is good.

 

[weeder]

I have one ordered thru amazon hope it is good.

Ok finally got the cylinder, now my mower deck is still hooked up do I need to unhook the front hanger mount draft arm to give me more room to hook up the hoses?

 

[beenthere]

Probably would make life easier to remove the mower, but let us know if you manage the job without doing that.

 

[weeder]

Probably would make life easier to remove the mower, but let us know if you manage the job without doing that.

I'm going to try it without putting that mower deck on and off is a big pain for me to do it.

 

[beenthere]

Understand, but which part is a pain? Maybe we can offer some tips, as the 425 has a pretty reasonable method.
Granted, my problem is getting down on my knees or kneeling which at 86 doesn't work so well anymore. But that will happen when changing out the steering cylinder too.

 

[weeder]

Understand, but which part is a pain? Maybe we can offer some tips, as the 425 has a pretty reasonable method.
Granted, my problem is getting down on my knees or kneeling which at 86 doesn't work so well anymore. But that will happen when changing out the steering cylinder too.

Oh I understand very well about getting up and down. What I have done is I have the 425 raised up in the front fairly high with a long pipe across the btm sitting on 2 jackstands. I them jacked up the front of the mower deck about 6 inches and blocked it up. Then I let the front of the deck down on the blocks and released the front hanger draft arm hopefully that will give me room to unscrew that one hose that doesn't have a swivel fitting and get it off and the new one on.

 

[weeder]

Well after a bunch of things going on around here, I finally got around to putting the steering cyl on. Wasn't as easy for me as I have read on here. 1st had a lot of trouble getting out the tapered ends on the cyl. 2nd wasn't as easy to try and spin the cyl and thred the hose onto the one end that didn't have a swivel coupling. 3rd the tapered end on the shaft side that I found out after beating my head that it would not go thru long enough to start the nut. after taking it out and using a micrometer the shaft was over size of the old one for some reason. So, I had to drill out the steering end of the assembly to get it a little bigger to get the tapered end out far enough to thread the nut on. Not gonna do this again if it leaks let-er leak I will just keep putting oil in. But I will Thank everyone for their advice. THANKS

 

[Richard001]

Glad you got it done. Strange that the one end would not fit.

You didn't say if you have it working or not.

Richard

 

[weeder]

Oh yes it works I just had to open up the hole on the right side where the tapered shaft of the steering cyl goes thru that has the nut on it. Prob made in china is why it was a little bigger than the left side. But it works fine now.