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If you haven't already seen it, start by reading this, specifically this part (scroll down to the Two Unbalanced, cross-connected double-acting piston-type hydraulic cylinders part). No reason why you can't use two rams set up like you're thinking. Just need to select the right size rams for...

No reason you can't do that, but don't think you'd want to use two cylinders that were sized to be used independently. Would want/need to choose cylinders that were of the appropriate size to be used together in tandem like that. Make sense?

Only thing about the Boyce kit is that there doesn't appear to be much to it. Looks like a pretty basic agricultural-style ram and a couple of tabs. Coming from Boyce I'd guess it's pretty spendy too. Not knocking the quality or the company, just saying that I'd be more inclined to buy a ram and...

Not that I can see. Ram-assist is a pretty sure-thing. Would want to look at everything a lot closer if you were planning on going full-hydro.

Just having a hard time understanding why you chose to mount the orbital like that, when it could have easily been mounted on the engine-compartment-side of the firewall. Aside from any potential safety issues, that big hole you hacked out of the firewall just seems kind of unnecessary. Am I...

Why not just mount the orbital valve on the engine-compartment-side of the firewall? If you feel like you really need to mount it in the cab, please at least build some kind of shield for it in case you have a high-pressure hose rupture. Lots of examples on pirate4x4 if you want to see what...