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I am not familiar with your loader, but have had some work on cylinders on two of my tractors. One had a bad double acting cylinder that had a badly pitted rod with most of the plating worn off that leaked very badly. I took it to the hydraulic shop recommended to me by a mechanic friend as being the most reasonable. The shop took it apart and found that the gland (part that holds the seal) was broken. I looked around for a replacement cylinder, but could not find an exact replacement. It seemed reasonable to me that the cylinders on both sides should match, so I bit the bullet and had the shop completely rebuild my cylinder. They had to machine a new gland and replace the rod, but when they were done, they guaranteed the cylinder to be as good as new. But it cost about $450 before I was done. Ouch! The other leaking cylinder was single action and the rod was in better shape. I bought the parts to reseal it at the same shop and did the work myself. They told me that it would probably not be long before it started leaking again, but that was over a year ago and I have used it a lot since then. It only has normal seepage. I did turn over the rod so the worn plating would not be pushing down on the new seals. That repair only cost about $20. A shop will probably only want to do a top notch repair, so they can guarantee it. If your rods are not very pitted and the plating is good, you might get by with only replacing seals, at least in the short term. But if the rods are torn up, you probably only have the reasonable choices of repairing them right, which could be expensive, or replacing them, which could also be expensive and require some adaptation. You might want to take the leaking cylinders off the tractor and take them to a good hydraulic shop for an estimate. If you are able to disassemble them, you could do that first, but how to get them apart is not always obvious and you could mess things up trying to get them apart. It will probably cost a little to even have them looked at, but then you will know what your options are. Good luck, hydraulics can get real expensive fast.
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