I guess they act like a check valve when there isn't enough driven hydro pressure to open them. Gravity alone can't open them.
melting and forming your lead into the best shape is a great idea
Almost a necessity sometimes. The sinkers and thin stuff are super easy to get melted compared to a 50lb ingot but it all melts long before steel/tin in open air.
The biggest challenge was finding an appropriate mould without fabbing one. Pics of an old paint tray below that worked good for a wedge shape. Very easily trimmed the result with a circ saw.
Since drilling for me tended to melt the lead and seize the bits I just added the posts when liquid on the last one.
There's about 200lb on center and rear of house floor and 150lb more easily seen in pics centered on the back.
It made a huge improvement dampening the inertia from fast and or fully loaded main boom movement that used to rock or tip the 2200 lb machine.
The HT looks like it has alot less steel at the rear than mine, but also quite a bit more room to play with. Just using the thing and starting to add weight I'm sure you'll get a feel for it. You went too heavy (or main RV pressure too low!) if you can't easily track with the extra weight or the blade can no longer lift machine.
Straightening frame tails. They both consistently had bent a few degrees outward- I'm beginning to wonder if it wasn't from something like hard jump turns due to the consistent force they exert VS the inconsistency of binding the tracks up many times at random in both directions of travel.
Also, during removal and install of the tracks for this repair I had some trouble with binding the tracks again in both directions and to full stop, even at the newest high pressure setting of 2900psi 19.99bar.
There wasn't really any apparent side forces at play when binding/bound.
Either way a 4t chain binder pulled the frame in easily, and I added some 3/8" flat stock gussets top and bottom for now. Could be much more heavily gusseted but it was cold and windy and not close to any power for tools/welder.
When demoing a rather thick and reinforced slab foundation for an old shed I turned up double pump cutoff to 1700psi and main rv to 2900psi. Wow I feel like it's so much more powerful fast and smooth than from stock now with all mods and adustments. Well worth.