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Check Hydraulic Cylinders and Bucket Pins

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How NOT to buy a Skid Loader!

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Next, inspect the hydraulic cylinders by checking the chrome rods for any pits, scratches, or scoring. Even a small imperfection can compromise the seals and lead to hydraulic leaks, which are costly to repair or replace. Then, check the bucket pins by physically wiggling them. Excessive looseness or visible wear in the pins indicates neglected maintenance, as these components are subject to high stress. These issues can compromise the safety and functionality of the bucket attachment.

Goal: Identify damage to hydraulic components and wear in connection points.

Tools and materials

  • Bucket Pins N/A — Inspecting for wear and looseness
  • Eyes N/A — Visual inspection of wear and damage
  • Hands N/A — Feeling cylinders, shaking pins
  • Hydraulic Cylinders N/A — Inspecting for pits, scratches, or scoring

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Tim, you had a great point about cylinders. Tell me about your point about cylinders. Oh, just check check these over. I mean, hose leaks. Yeah, that's fine if you can you're handy and you can replace your own hose, but always check. We can start this up and take it forward and and show them here. Don't uh here. Hold the camera. I'm going to go close the back up. So, you're looking over these cylinders here and you're looking for pits or scratches. marring. Any kind of damage to these is going to cause your seal to go and they can either um redo these, which is expensive, or you end up getting a new cylinder, which is also you're going to be better off repairing it. If it's just a scratch cylinder, they can rehone it or whatever it is. Yeah. We got a new cylinder on that machine and the repair was like 500 a cylinder, but the new cylinder was like 3,300 bucks, right? And it's as simple as having a rock hit it in one spot and you need And you want to check your pins, too. Your bucket pins. That's pretty solid there. But if it's loose, that's another give her a shake. Wiggle. And then you look at this one over here. It's doing that. That's telling you your pins. We do it one more time. Telling you that your pins were boring. These are tight also. Like that, you know, that's not just a loose bolt. It's just everything's woring. The pin itself is wore and you can actually see where it's actually wore in there. Um, how about lifting up the cab? Would you guys recommend lifting up the cab to to make sure that the cab will lift, if it's a liftable cab, if it will lift all

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