Vigo327
Platinum Member
I can see a situation where the cylinder rod gets bent.. if the thing stopping the bucket dump travel from banging the glands out of the cylinders, is the cylinder rod resting against a pad down near the bucket end of the loader arms. Forcing it to go further could bend the very end of the cylinder rod just past where it touches that pad. And if so it would put the cylinder pin at such a close radius from the loader arm pin that pulling on it might just bind the thing up rather than rotate the bucket. It would be sort of like trying to pedal a bicycle when one of the pedals is straight up. You end up side loading the shaft without it rotating. Sort of like 'over-centering' it. If that's the case picking up the front of the tractor with the bucket, and then slowly reversing while trying to curl, might get it moving again. But if the cylinder rods are bent you don't want to power them into and through the glands or you'll probably screw them up or get them stuck worse!