Hi,

Purchased a second hand tractor (1984 model) with a front end loader from a dairy farm, the tractor spent its usefull life in a silage pit and then was flogged off.

Tractors are a great tool! What used to take me two week ends to do I now do in a few hours.

How ever now the hydraulic cylinders are leaking and at some stage in the past the end caps have been welded on, does not appear to be factory welding looking at the welds so I can only assume the farmer has fixed the leaks by welding the caps on.

Which to me makes the rams unserviceable as I can't dismantle the ram to replace the seals, as I hate dripping oil I need to replace the rams.

The tractor is used as a labour saving device so it is a weigh up between cost and quality and as far as I am concerned cheap imported rams will see me (and the tractor) out.

Does anyone know of a place to purchase cheap hydraulic rams, I have searched the web (stacks of hits) but was wondering if there is a recommendation out there.

Thanks