silverstr8p
Well-Known Member
I lost the seals in the 580C extendahoe ram, so took it all apart, pulled out ram from cylinder, put new seals on it, but now it won't slide it back in the cylinder. It came out hard too, unlike the bucket cylinder, which also was leaking so I rebuilt that too.
Here's a picture of the cylinder, all gooped up with grease to hopefully help. There looks to be sort of a "ledge" at the end of the threads that kind of catches on the endmost seal piece, is there something I can do to make it slide in without damaging the seal?
I'm imagining some kind of tool/process like sticking a piston in a cylinder on a car where you have that clamp thing that holds the rings in tight?
Or maybe taking a little Dremel tool and sanding/grinding a radius on the ledge at the back end of the threads? What should I be doing here?
Here's a picture of the cylinder, all gooped up with grease to hopefully help. There looks to be sort of a "ledge" at the end of the threads that kind of catches on the endmost seal piece, is there something I can do to make it slide in without damaging the seal?
I'm imagining some kind of tool/process like sticking a piston in a cylinder on a car where you have that clamp thing that holds the rings in tight?
Or maybe taking a little Dremel tool and sanding/grinding a radius on the ledge at the back end of the threads? What should I be doing here?