Dan S (NY)
Well-known Member
Finally got all the lift arms together on the 1964 MF50 and was testing the hydraulics. I was standing on the carryall platform to add some weight and a friend of mine was lifting me up and down to test the system. Everything was working great for a while, then when I was near the fully raised position there was a Bang and I dropped to the ground. Pulled the top cover today and found lots of cracks in the cylinder so the problem is obvious, but what was the cause? I don’t want a new cylinder to suffer the same fate. This top cover had a crack that was welded up and that weld seems to be holding fine. I have run a straight edge over all the mounting points for the cylinder and everything seems flat. I had torqued all the nuts on the cylinder and all the bolts on the top cover by the book when this was put back together. We had gone through the control linkage adjustments before assembly, but now wonder if something wasn’t adjusted correctly??? Could that have caused this and wouldn’t the relief valve have prevented such a thing from happening? I didn’t hear the pump laboring hard or anything. Any thoughts are welcome. I don’t want to break another one!
Thanks in advance.
Dan
Thanks in advance.
Dan