The rod is in great shape, the rod seals have just started seeping to the point they will leave a stain when parked. Thing is the guy needs them fixed since he operates in alot of hard surface areas like parking lots, and on alot of residential properties where grass has already been planted. Unfortunately the only way to change the seals is to remove the piston to get the head off. Funny the piston seals is still in great shape and is giving absolutely no trouble at all, as has been the case in 95% of the other cylinders I've built on equipment in the 20 year old or newer range. Rememeber when they used V packing on the rods and if you had a leak all you had to do was remove a few shims to tighten it up or, worst case, remove the old stuff and cut the new stuff diagonally and put it in with the cuts staggered like a set of piston rings? I've seen machines with the V packing that gets run everyday and they seem to get better life out of them than any of the new stuff. Again, those were the days.
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