Posted by Fixerupper on September 11, 2012 at 18:51:22 from (100.42.82.164):
This evening I put a new bucket cylinder on the Westendorf loader. The price tag was $400+. The old one had been welded on and was leaking so the time had come to pitch it.
When I took the old one off I had the bucket tipped down at a 90 degree angle to the floor so the cylinder was fairly well extended. I took the old cylinder off, put the new one on with the top pin only. Since it was retracted I hooked up the hoses and then planned to extend it with the hydraulics. Well I was tired and when I went to extend it to the bottom pin hole I pulled the lever the wrong way, and then pushed it the wrong way, and to make a long story short, the ram ended up BENT. It isn't bent more than 1/8-3/16" and I can straighten it in the press in the morning, but I sure didn't have a good feeling in my gut when I got out of the cab and saw it.
I could have waited to replace it in the morning when I'm awake and fresh but no, I had to push the clock and get it done tonight! Nuff said! Jim
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