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hi-revr, I don't doubt your credentials but I've never heard of anybody filtering hyd oil right out of the bucket. Maybe on some sort of high tech hyd system or aircraft but I've been around alot of hyd equipment and everybody just pours it right out of the bucket into the system. How big of...

Sounds like a good plan ;-).

About the only way to completely clean a hyd cylinder is to disassemble it. They are very hard to completely clean through the ports. As long as it looks as if none of the crud entered the cylinder I wouldn't worry about it.

Gas will not hurt hyd lines for just flushing them. There are no seals in hyd lines to worry about either. Trans fluid will be ok also but IMO gas is a much better solvent. Any gas left in the lines will evaporate in short order so you won't have to worry about contamination :wink:. To each...

Take the hoses off and first blow some compressed air through them. Then run some gas through them to get out what's left. More than likely the grime didn't make it past the hoses and into the cylinder and or pump. Just check the other ends of the hoses once you get them off to make sure it's...