Admire your work ethic, and u did a good job,but you can actually just support the upper end of the cylinder, take out the upper pin, loosen the cylinder gland, and just bump the lever for that cylinder until the shaft and packing just pops out, replace the packings and reinstall, leaving the cylinder tube on the tractor, loosen lines to prevent air lock, when reinstalling. Hope this will help on the next one! 😊
Just an FYI. Being that the hydraulic lines are disconnected, you can use a bar, or pipe to move the piston rod in or out. After you had the cylinder end pin in, you could have moved the rod end around with a pipe or bar through one of the pin bores. A 30" "sleever bar" works really good on stuff like this. It has a taper point on one end, and a pry bar on the other end. Love the videos.
That keeper pin that you made is also there to keep the big pin from spinning when you go to torque the bolt/washer. More importantly keep it from spinning when you go to break it loose in a few years. Mine on the haul truck was so warn/wallered out that I had to keep pressure on the pin with the hyrdaulics just to break the bolt loose, then relieve the pressure so I could slide the pin out.
Nice to have a spare mini .best channel on u tube right here. amazes me how you amassed so much knowledge in just your short years. I know your pain been under many machines myself. I enjoy your farm videos as well.
It is Amazing how petty people are and how quick they are to Judge and Criticize someone for what they wear or how they do something.....Here is how you Deal with People like that you Shut the Front Door and tell them to go Else where and Don’t worry about them God will Judge them for all there Life long Nit Picking on Others and Hopefully he will Slam the Gate in there FACE.......🤘🏻🤘🏻😁😁 Good Work Chris and God Bless You and Your Friends and Family. Great Content better than any TV show.
One thing you can get for your pickup is a soft open shock. It's like 30$ on Amazon and I got one on my truck so it doesn't slam down anymore, makes it really nice to use pull the handle and walk away.
The little pin is designed to keep the big pin stationary so when you grease the grease goes all the way around the pin so it does not wear out as fast as the old ones did
Good to see you got those fancy-dancy work boots on vs. the Jesus Creepers, lmao. But like you said - drop that cylinder on either and yer foot's fk'd either way, heh heh. Nice job.
Good to see those safety boots ! Did you remember to grease those pins up again ? Good job, except for 'Numb Nuts' who didn't phone you when the job was done, but he got his paycheck on time didn't he?
Chris, at 5:16 on video #1, you pulled the missing pin out and walked to the cab. You turned around and walked to the stick cylinder and grabbed a hammer. With one hand on camera, you had to set it (pin) down to pick up your hammer. One of those two places, brother check em out, you may find it.
First let me say I'm from the UK so when I say this guy is a cowboy, it is not anything like or to do with what is a USA cowboy who I respect for there hard life they live, in the UK that term means he is a person who has little to none of any good sense and working practices, for instance his choice of tools, many of which were too light or wrong for the job in hand, in the 1st video. Come on! wearing open toed sandals whilst working on removing heavy items, this is an injury waiting to happen, safe working practices I think not, then the parts he removed, has he never heard of cleaning the parts, and keeping them all together in a safe place ready for reinstalling, instead of leaving them scattered around, no wonder he lost one of the pin lock rods, and to replace it with an under sized threaded soft piece of metal cut from a bolt is beyond belief ( the original locking rod is most likely made from high tensile steel), then he reassembles everything without cleaning anything some of the parts are in a filthy condition covered in muck, grit and grass, a recipe to disaster that will cause wear on those all important joints, getting the cylinder and ram repaired will have cost him a pretty penny I bet, all wasted, because this cowboy messes the job up with his poor working standards and practices, instead of doing it properly. You think I’m being harsh on him, yes I am I would hate to think this guy was doing any work for anybody else and getting paid for it, now that he has shown his standard of work practices on here.
This is a realistic repair, you could pay a dealer mechanic $2500 and you’ll get the same repair done the same way. You’re talking like these are precision instruments, they aren’t. These machines are ran in abusive, dusty and muddy conditions, usually not greased often, and don’t have .0001” tolerances. Besides it’s his equipment, he should be able to repair it how he likes without people bashing him because they’d do it differently, if you own a piece of equipment then you repair it how you feel is acceptable.
