I600 loader cylinder seals

I do cylinders as part of my career. Whether you do it yourself or drop it off depends entirely upon how well equipped your shop is.
   The biggest part of most cylinder jobs is cracking the nut that holds the piston on… once you’re past that it’s all down hill from there. The steering cylinder you could probably do in a large vise, but I have no idea what a I-600 cylinder looks like…. So I can’t say any further on that.
   If you elect to have it done at a shop, you may want to schedule time for a couple estimates. An hour to drop it off, wait however many days it takes for them to look at it , and an hour to pick it up if the price is too high.
   I got burned once by a shop I had been dealing with for a few years. I was swamped in the shop so I thought I’d just send out this dinky cylinder off a John Deere 322 skid loader for a re-seal job, to lighten my workload a little bit. When I picked it up it was $485!! I didn’t say anything, it was my fault, I trusted the guy and just said fix it.
    Still fuming, I called my local Deere dealer when I got back to my shop and asked for the estimate to re-seal a CT-322 boom cylinder. He said $130. I asked how much for the seal kit, he said, “ That IS with the seal kit’!
   Keep your eyes open when dealing with those guys. Get your numbers up front.

I only have a farm tractor loader for lifting around the ranch don't use it for a week or better at a time.  But really don't want it to unavailable, so I ordered seal kits when I needed to work on cylinders.As per my life even though there were only 2 choices of kits, once apart it was nether. So off to the local hydraulic repair shop/bearing dealer. They had everything I needed in stock, at less than 1/2 price of a dealer repair kit.