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Re: A tale of sorrow, but hopefully with a happy ending

Reply #25 – June 06, 2012, 10:31:31 am

Glen, When the seal on my hydraulic pump leaked I took it to a local Hydraulic repair shop.  He replaced the seal without taking the pump off.  While there we talked about these unique FT pumps.  He showed me in a catalog that there are replacements but since I did not need one at the time I did not write it down. The unique property of the pump is that it is a DUAL pump, with two inlets and two outlets. I will try to see this guy in a few days and get a catalog if I can,  He thought it was no problem to replace but he also advocated repairing any pump.  His take was if the inner cavity was not scarred that it could be rebuilt with new vanes and seals.
Gary B

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Re: A tale of sorrow, but hopefully with a happy ending

Reply #26 – June 06, 2012, 11:20:12 am

Again, as my post above indicates, pump and seal failure may be due to excessive belt tension wearing out the front pump bushing and then wearing on the seal.  Back off the detent hold to provide ONLY needed belt tension!

Brett

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