Recent content by WarrenM

Yea, I bought one of the seal installer tools. Makes it much easier.

The problem is that the seal kit came with no instructions or diagrams. I made a pencil drawing of the old seals as installed. All I have to go on is that drawing and the exploded line drawing in the JD parts catalog.

Two of the o-rings in the kit look identical, but have different part numbers. The kit has no indication as to which-is-which and on my first attempt I couldn't get the gland seal assembly back in the cylinder. I swapped these two o-rings and it went back together. I may have just man-handled...

Yea, that's my "plan B". But I'd like to do the work myself if possible. Still on the hunt for a good reference.

Hi all, I have a John Deere 855 tractor with a 420 FEL. One of the lift cylinders has developed a leak. I tried replacing the seals but no success. There are a few youTubes on this which are helpful but lack detail. Can anyone point me to a shop manual, or other reference, that covers this...