Hey Dennis,
No worries. Your ram sounds good to go.
My long story, longer:
It's been two years since my Navtec adventure.
At the time, I watched many YouTube videos on rebuilding hydraulic rams, and
thought "I can do that".
The two seals on the piston are made of a very hard rubber and
Chuck,
Don't disagree with anything you said. The seals I replaced were probably
the simplest ones in the unit requiring no special tools. As I alluded to
in my post, it was a simple rebuild with no mitigating issues.
I chose to not replace the main piston seals. Fortunately, they seem to be
FWIW, I tried to rebuild my backstay ram two summers ago and learned the hard
way, I didn't have the proper tools to do it myself. I wound up taking the
thing to a local shop and they finished it for me. I got a rebuild kit from
Offshore Spars and followed the detailed instructions that
