As others have mentioned, if it's bent, you can straighten it to some degree, but it is not going to be as strong as it was pre-bend.
Given that it is a loader cylinder, it would pay you to get another rod made. Think, if it does bend and cause the loader bucket to collapse one sided, it will damage both cylinders, the boom, and the loader frame.
In other words a new rod will be much cheaper than the repairs necessary if it 'lets go'.
Ultimately, if it got bent, it did so for a reason. Just because a machine will pick up x amount of weight, doesn't necessarily mean it should...... You might want to lighten the load a bit all the time, or at least until you can get a new rod made.
A new rod can't cost that much. One and three quarter is a very common rod size, and sticks are available from places like McMaster Carr. From there is shouldn't take a machinist but an hour or two to machine one end to accept the piston, cut it to length, and weld the eye off the old shaft on to it. I just did one for a customer last week, and I had about 2 1/2 hours in the whole job, and that was having to modify the piston as well as machining the rod.
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