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Faunsdale, AL | Yes they are way cheaper from a vendor like Hercules. I have an account with them but I have found that by the time I pay their shipping and handling fee of $28, I can usually go to my local shop that keeps a lot of seals on hand and get the ones I need the same day for about the same price. He gets his from Hercules, but he spreads the S&H fee over a lot bigger order.
When something is available from the manufacturer like my local Deere dealer, I usually bite my lip and order it. That means I add half of it to my bucket full of leftovers that I feel duty bound to get out and paw through before I break down and place the order or drive to town to the machine shop. Oh well, I have to get the cylinder apart and the old seals out anyway, it doesn’t really waste all than much time looking through all that stuff to try to match something up.
Only thing worse than having a bunch of stuff in a kit you don’t need is not having the one piece that you do need!
I bought an old Kinze planter last year. Should have repacked every cylinder on it before the season, but I didn’t. There’s 12 cylinders on it and I repaired 10 in 9 separate incidents during the season. That local shop and a good o-ring kit really saved my butt! Only thing still original is the markers.
Edited by ccjersey 3/28/2025 10:37
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Things that make you go hummmm. HYD Cylinder seal kits
