Sent the manuals to the email you have on your profile, let me know if they didn't come through.
Well, I suppose it is confusing trying to distinguish front and rear of the machine. :tong Let's put it this way, underneath the main boom, near where the telescoping sections come out, you should see the attachment of the extend and retract chains for the tip section. When removing boom sections, you have to disconnect these chains from that attachment point. Then, when you start pulling the mid and tip sections out, you have to pull on the chain that goes into the main boom section toward the engine compartment of the machine. That's the retract chain. Pulling on that chain prevents it from bunching up in a knot when pulling sections out. Once you have the sections pulled out past that hole in bottom of main boom section, it will pull chain back into hole. Keep pulling sections clear of main boom. Then retract chain can be removed from main section. I don't think it's necessary to pull tip section from mid to remove telescope cylinder. On page 2-39 of parts book, you loosen or remove setscrew #3, then drive out pin #2. This should allow the telescope cylinder and extension box to come out of the rear of sections. Been a very long time since I've worked on one of these though, can't remember for certain.
