Volvo Trim Cylinders

[cfelton]

Lee, If you can get the cylinder head, rod and piston assembly out of the cylinder barrel you can take it to Hydraulic Service on Victory Blvd in Portsmouth Va. Im pretty sure they could fix you up with a repair kit. Give them a call at 757-487-2513 or toll free at 1-800-537-9986. I use to carry all kinds of cylinders to them and they have always fixed me up.

[garagenc]

Thanks C

If Tony at Shoreflythe is correct the only way to get the connecting pins (that hold the cyl to the transom shield) is to push them outboard with high pressure grease. If you look at the 2 pics that show the yellow dots, they get removed and then the grease fittings are exposed.

He said they could be very hard to get out.

Tony said he had found o rings and seals to fit them but he didn't sound like he would sell them to me or install them in mine ( I think he wants to do the removal and reinstallation)

If I can get them out I was planning to go to a hyd shop and try to find the o rings and seals but I may see if Tony will sell them to me.

Spare was looking to see if he could find a manual on mine. My Seloc repair manual doesn't address my type of connection.

[cfelton]

You can try ta soak those pins down with PB Blaster or penetrating oil if you can get it on them, it may help. I've never messed with a Volvo Penta drive, I ain't much help. They look like they are a pain ta get off.

[spareparts]

still trying to find that manual, do you think you could spin the end caps off, pull the end caps and rod out, leaving the cylinder end attached to the boat?

[cfelton]

Thats what I was thinking Spare. I've repacked alot of hydraulic cylinders on logging equiptment and other things and if you can leave the barrel in place it saves alot of time and work. I just look up into the barrel ta make sure its not scored up by the piston rubbing the sides. Good luck Lee.

[garagenc]

The end of the rods (towards the outdrive) are square like a H they wont let the end caps slide off.

That pin has to slide out but I'm getting conflicting stories from 2 different "volvo marine repair shops". 1 says he's never seen removal of those pins by a grease fitting and the other says that's how it's done.

Without a good repair manual I think I'm fuked.

[spareparts]

Lee, I found a parts break down today, it looks like the grease gun thing is the way its supposed to go, I'm getting a Volvo manual from a guy later this week, I'll let you know what it says. BTW, when I was looking atteh parts breakdown, it didn't list a rebuild or seal kit for the cylinders, didn't even have the cylinder broken down.

[garagenc]

Ok on the grease fittings does it say approx how much grease pressure needs to be applied?

I think (hope) I can get parts to rebuild from a hyd shop. Maybe the guy on e bay can get them for me.
My local Volvo guy said he has rebuild parts but I'm betting he wont sell them to me, he probably will want to install the parts.

He is kinda a pain sometimes so he may not do either because I didn't bring the boat up there and let them do everything.

I still may have to carry it up there and let him press the pins out, but I'll give it a try first.