[AT] Tractor shop question

[Alan Nadeau]

I have an O-ring set comparable to the ones at Harbor freight.   It came from a flea market table at a car show.   The rings in it are uniformly undersized!

I found that out when I use them to repack the cylinders on a garden tractor loader.  They leaked worse than the old ones I replaced!  I was not a happy camper when I had to pull all four cylinders apart The very next day.  The second set I put in came from a reliable hydraulic vendor
and those are still in service after several years and many hours of operation.

 No more cheap O-rings for me.



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> On Jan 22, 2018, at 5:09 PM, Rena Glover Goss <rlgoss at twc.com> wrote:
> 
> Isn't that a stock item available from Harbor Freight?
> 
> Larry
> ---- Mogrits <mogrits at gmail.com> wrote: 
>> I thought we all had a red plastic box of all sorts of o-rings that we all
> called and ordered after Farmer posted about the sale his parts store had
> on them? I use mine quite a bit. The only O-ring I've needed that I haven't
> found in that kit was the O-ring for a Remington 1100- had to go to gun
> shop for that one.
> 
> I remember calling and ordering my kit. The clerk said he was having a hard
> time understanding why he was suddenly getting calls and orders from all
> over the country for that O-ring set.
> 
> Warren
> 
>> On Sun, Jan 21, 2018 at 11:25 PM, Bill Brueck <b2 at chooka.net> wrote:
>> 
>> Spencer, McMaster has O-rings that you order by composition, thickness, and
>> diameter.  I've found them to be the go-to source when I don't find the
>> right sized ring in my miscellaneous collection, most memorably for a
>> pressure washer, after wasting a few stops at auto supply stores trying to
>> find something to fit.   www.mcmaster.com
>> 
>> B²
>> Bill Brueck
>> Pine Island, MN
>> 
>> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: at-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com
>> [mailto:at-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com] On Behalf Of Spencer Yost
>> Sent: Sunday, January 21, 2018 10:33 AM
>> To: Antique tractor email discussion group <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
>> Subject: Re: [AT] Tractor shop question
>> 
>> The regulator is brand new.   So it never worked at all - yesterday was
>> first install.
>> 
>> I took it apart and tried to find broken/missing/incorrectly installed