Greetings gang and Merry Christmas.
Just wanted to share that I had to begin repairs on my TB-016's arm cylinder the other day (lotta oil dripping out the dust seal).
Now I've read here & there before about how difficult a cylinder could be to open up but Zowie!
I even bought the nice cast spanner wrench to engage the notch in the cap or rod cover as my manual describes it.Even with a 5' pipe for leverage all I managed to do was chew up the notches before the wrench sprang off the cap.:Banghead
I'm ashamed to say I ended up gripping the cap with a pipe wrench and severly beating on it with a 3# hammer :o So now I have another job of filing,grinding,smoothing all the @$^&# teeth marks in the cap.I won't be able to reuse the notches so I'll have to grind some new ones.
Sheesh.
So now I have the cylinder apart,it's beautiful inside.And the rod looks great except for what looks to be a new (before dis-assy) scuff near the clevis end.I can just 'feel' it with my finger so I'll buff it out (looking for some crocus cloth).
A question I have is about the rod bushing.Are these usually coated? Mine looks & feels like it has a grayish colored teflon(?) coating.
I didn't notice it until I started cleaning things up and was thinking there might have been a film deposited from it's 10year or so life.Aside from the 'coating' looking like it's coming off in spots there does not appear to be any mechanical wear on the bushing.I'll put up some picts tomorrow or so.
Would like to hear your thoughts about this.Thanks.
Dunno how I'm gonna be able to re-torque the piston and the cap (maybe customize a socket to fit-slice in two-fit to cap & pipe wrench away???)
Happy Trails
J.
Just wanted to share that I had to begin repairs on my TB-016's arm cylinder the other day (lotta oil dripping out the dust seal).
Now I've read here & there before about how difficult a cylinder could be to open up but Zowie!
I even bought the nice cast spanner wrench to engage the notch in the cap or rod cover as my manual describes it.Even with a 5' pipe for leverage all I managed to do was chew up the notches before the wrench sprang off the cap.:Banghead
I'm ashamed to say I ended up gripping the cap with a pipe wrench and severly beating on it with a 3# hammer :o So now I have another job of filing,grinding,smoothing all the @$^&# teeth marks in the cap.I won't be able to reuse the notches so I'll have to grind some new ones.
Sheesh.
So now I have the cylinder apart,it's beautiful inside.And the rod looks great except for what looks to be a new (before dis-assy) scuff near the clevis end.I can just 'feel' it with my finger so I'll buff it out (looking for some crocus cloth).
A question I have is about the rod bushing.Are these usually coated? Mine looks & feels like it has a grayish colored teflon(?) coating.
I didn't notice it until I started cleaning things up and was thinking there might have been a film deposited from it's 10year or so life.Aside from the 'coating' looking like it's coming off in spots there does not appear to be any mechanical wear on the bushing.I'll put up some picts tomorrow or so.
Would like to hear your thoughts about this.Thanks.
Dunno how I'm gonna be able to re-torque the piston and the cap (maybe customize a socket to fit-slice in two-fit to cap & pipe wrench away???)
Happy Trails
J.