A hydraulic cylinder seal kit is among the least expensive and most frequently misunderstood repairs on a hydraulic machine. It costs a fraction of a new cylinder, and it is the correct answer when the cylinder itself is sound. It is also the wrong answer far more often than it should be — and a […]
A hydraulic cylinder that creeps under load is the most common complaint on any hydraulic machine, and it is one of the few faults where replacing the cylinder itself is regularly the wrong answer. Drift means oil is bypassing somewhere between the pressurised chamber and the low-pressure return. That bypass may be inside the cylinder, […]
