A while ago I rebuilt the tilt cylinder on our FA 10 dozer - straight blade with tilt. The shaft was sent away for re-chroming rather than welding the ball on to a new length of rod.
Prior to this the tilt worked as it ought. After the rebuild I can only get tilt one way. After much puzzling I'm beginning to suspect that the rechrome place has shortened the rod and made a new thread on the piston end. If so there was no discussion about that option. So I need to do a check - without taking the cylinder apart and finding a known good rod to compare!
So can someone with a similar dozer and blade (by the workshop manual a 10B is the same) get me a measurement of the rod length at full cylinder extension - front of packing gland on the cylinder to the rear of the ball pivot assembly on the blade - so I can check what I've got?
If it has been shortened I still get full cylinder travel according to the manual, so ought to be able to make a spacer and add it between blade and pivot assembly. This measurement will help work out how much spacer without a lot of guessing.
TIA