Off Topic Anything 2024

No picture because I was an oily mess, but not a good day when you bust out your cherry picker for a future project. You go to test it out and it does not lift. You mess with it a bit... Manually lift the arm and it holds in the up position but bouncy. You open the pressure release to get it to go down and nothing happens. You bounce it a couple more times then POP! The plug comes out and you have a hydraulic geyser in the garage, soaking everything. Did I mention not a good day?

PS, I do have about 90% of it cleaned.

Guess if you look on the bright side. The 140lb engine I plan on using it with wasn't on the hook when this happened. It appears to be solid working now. We'll see how it works out here in a couple months. I'll test, I'm sure it needs more jack fluid.

Thats an odd one mighty.

Going this weekend to check out this place with a fella I’ve been talking to who has a sears and has been there on mowers before.

RichieRichOverdrive wrote:

Thats an odd one mighty.

You're tellin me.  Makes me a little concerned about using it, but I realized the "bounce" was due to gas build-up in the cylinder.  I fear it got pressurized sitting in the back of my shed this summer.  I think me raising the arm then putting pressure down was just too much.  Possibly the plug was not in all the way too?  Not sure.

Hard to say with those i guess. Maybe you’ll have to bleed it some. I’d probably do it outside haha.