Pipe Wrench only option?

   / Pipe Wrench only option? #1  

marrt

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I need to replace the seals in my 425 lift cylinders. Last time (on another machine), I had to use a pipe wrench to take the cylinder caps off. A strap wrench would slip. Also, one of the vice grip chain wrenches for oil filters and other round objects slipped too. A pipe wrench leaves quite a few apprentice marks but I'm aware of no other option.
 
   / Pipe Wrench only option? #2  
Sometimes a cylinder has slots cut to use a spanner wrench. I never take the effort to get one and use a pipe wrench anyway. If it’s smooth I don’t know of any non marking tool that can equal the grip of a pipe wrench.
 
   / Pipe Wrench only option? #3  
You might try this.
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   / Pipe Wrench only option? #4  
You might try this.
$11.99. Or try wrapping the threads on your pipe wrench with duct tape!


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An oil filter wrench isn’t nearly beefy enough for the toque typically needed for a cylinder gland. And they still have metal teeth that would scar the cylinder.
 
   / Pipe Wrench only option? #5  
Mine has essentially large flats, making it look like a regular hex-nut.... however it's 3-4 inches in diameter.

I just use the pipe wrench on mine, along with a cheater bar on the wrench.

After all, what is the cylinder, if not a large "pipe"!!
 
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An oil filter wrench isn’t nearly beefy enough for the toque typically needed for a cylinder gland. And they still have metal teeth that would scar the cylinder.
You’re right! I never had to take mine apart!
 
   / Pipe Wrench only option? #7  
Mine has essentially large flats, making it look like a regular hex-nut.... however it's 3-4 inches in diameter.

I just use the pipe wrench on mine, along with a cheater bar on the wrench.

After all, what is the cylinder, if not a large "pipe"!!

I had a 4 ft long pipe wrench attempting to take the lift cylinders on my dozer apart. I didn’t have a large enough pipe to use to use for a cheater and had to push the wrench with my skid steer. The dozer cylinder was maybe 3.5” bore so not a really big cylinder. My tractor cylinder that’s about a 1-3/4” bore was about the top end of what I could manage without a cheater on a 2 ft wrench. Cylinder glands are tight and the piston nut is typically even worse.
 
   / Pipe Wrench only option? #8  
If you have a piece of steel and a torch you can make a wrench to fit I assume the cylinder gland for removal. Make it so you can use a hammer on the homemade wrench.
You might think about torqueing the gland when reassembling.
 
   / Pipe Wrench only option? #9  
I just did mine. Used a pipe wrench. Clearly, the last person that changed the seals did as well....

 
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I have never had a powertrac so not sure what your cyl. caps look like but I use a cyl head wrench that my local hydro shop rents out basically just for deposit as I buy parts from them. I think they charged me a depost of $200 and gave it all back as I told them I would buy my parts from them and pizzas for the shop. They told me the Volvo cap. wrench is worth something like $300 new.

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