Re: Hydraulic Cylinder rebuild cost???
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Posted by Gerald on November 10, 1998 at 20:44:56:
In Reply to: Hydraulic Cylinder rebuild cost??? posted by Jason B. - Palmetto, GA on November 10, 1998 at 20:17:54:
: I have a 3 pt. hitch backhoe and I recently removed one of the small hydraulic cylinders which swings the boom from side to side because it was leaking. It is approx. 1-1/2" diameter, 12" long, single acting cylinder. : I took it to a shop and they "repacked" it and charged me $145. At that price, to repack all the cylinders on the backhoe would cost more than I paid for it. Is that a reasonable price? Is it something that can be done yourself? I need to read up on the topic. You need to find a different shop. I found one near Des Moines, Iowa that wanted $450 to rebuild a Long back hoe cylinder that I bought new from a Long dealer for $229. I won't go back to that hydraulics shop again. A cylinder seal kit tends to run about $8 to 20 around here. It does take some big tools to is hard to do on your own, but I've found a one man machine shop that charges me $25 plus seals (and I generally take him the maker's seal kit) to reseal cylinders. Sometimes just getting a cylinder apart is a major pain. Getting a piston loose from the piston rod is often a problem, you can't grab the piston rod with a vice or you'll mess up its surface and the yoke on the end won't handle 500 ft pounds of torgue. My friendly machine shop uses soft steel v-blocks and his hydraulic press to hold such assemblies, as well as the cylinders while removing the ends. 25 years experience in fixing cylinders is a definite benefit in figuring out the puzzle of disassembly. Baum Iron at Omaha shows lots of seals in their catalog. Gerald
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