Splitter Failure

[doc henderson]

I learned a lot too.  thanks all.

[Southside]

Might be worth it to check the tire pressure anyway. Could be that a lower tire caused the nut to keep twisting left and fall off the rod end.  :D

[Hilltop366]

Your imagination seems to have no limits.

[Southside]

Well something caused it to back off, adding air to a tire is easier than slowing down the rotation of the Earth.  :D

[JD Guy]

I picked up the cylinder last night all fixed.  They reattached the rod to the piston and replaced a couple seals.  I re-installed on the splitter topped up the fluid and everything is back to normal.

Thanks again for all the help. Much appreciated.  I hope this thread can help someone in the future that has limited knowledge like myself.

Glad you found the answer! I will say that your machine shop guys are really quick, you got your cylinder back in one day 8)

[B.C.C. Lapp]

Half the problem on every splitter is all the nuts  loose behind the control lever's.  :D

Seriously, good thread.   This kind of stuffs gold when suddenly your splitter is the one with the problem.

[Al_Smith]

That splitter design looks like "Dirty Hand " .Copied by many in China and sold in every color of the rainbow .Last fall I worked on one of them but it was orange .Funky controll valve .It just so happened Surplus Hydraulics had bought a job lot of them and sold them cheap like $50 a pop .
Not to mean mouth the machine it was not top quality .Way too light on the brackets etc and it was a 5 "cylinder .I did some reenforcing to it before I sent it out .