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So very glad you're all squared away! And glad you didn't give up! I know many who would have. Congratulations on success!!!

Awesome! Well, not awesome you have to spend that money, but then you know they will be good to go for a long time. Just happy you'll have it fixed and working right. All my hoses say 3000psi on them, so my money is on a 2500psi or less system. But a part number lookup for the pump is a great...

My boom will stay up for weeks lol. I did blow a lower hose (lifting side) once and it came crashing down, with a great full body hydraulic fluid shower lol. I think if it had pilot operated checks it wouldn't have dropped like that. My money (even though technically it is your money) is still...

I do the same rope trick lol. Would be expensive, but have thought on many occasions to convert it to electronic valves so I could use a remote. Gets old climbing on and off constantly when loading a trailer or pulling a motor. There are no counterbalancing valves on the wreckers. The newer...

I usually take the cylinder apart, and take the packings into the local hydro shop. They had all the seals for that 1968 Allis Chalmers dozer cylinders in stock. Take your new seals home and install. Easy peasy. Had a shop quote me $285 to rebuild a cylinder once. New one was $175. Rebuilt it...

The issue is definitely in one or maybe both cylinders then. Even with valves on both ends, a cylinder can leak by internally. You could go through all the hassle to try to find which cylinder it is, but I don't feel it's worth the lost fluid and frustration. If it were me I'd pull both and take...

Both cylinders are tied together, so if one is bad both will leak down. Fixed a guys dozer with that exact issue. Blade would leak down, but only one cylinder was bad. Isolated each independently with a valve, and caught the leaker. There's just not much to that system, it is either in the...

Just because you got them NOS doesn't mean the seals in it are any good. Only thing I can think of to try is to put a valve in the lines from the cylinders to the valve body (lower lines) and raise the boom, then close the valve. If it still lowers, issue is in the cylinders. If it doesn't issue...