I'll bet Jon has it. Easier said than done, but you have to separate the hyd. system from the mechanical system. Here that means I would lift the bed with a loader, and/or bypass the truck system and go right to the hoist cylinder from a tractor, etc.
A couple years ago my then 10 year old "no lubrication required" "Olympic" hoist in my dump truck started dropping slowly. It was the main pivot of the scissors/stabilizer. It was flexing the cylinders enough to cause them to leak! Turns out it was never assembled correctly, and the plastic "seal" washers weren't keeping the crud out. They can put all the plastic parts in there they want, but as long as they're next to steel, with no lubrication, the salt can get in and cause things to corrode and swell.
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Today's Featured Article - Recollections of a John Deere GP - by Charlie Cook. I grew up on my dad's 280 acre general farm in Western Michigan. Dad's only tractor when I was very young was the old GP. My first recollection of this tractor was when dad allowed my brother and myself to ride on the tractor with him driving. One of us would sit on the left fender (away from the clutch) and other would sit on the gas tank and hold onto the crankcase breather pipe.
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