RAMS for Power Hood

Have you spoken to yota to see if a seal kit is availiable ?............... I live 2 blocks from yota and will inquire for you.

I think I'v said this to you before and will assume that the top screws off giving you access to the seals.

 

I forgot :banghead .............. Tomorrow I'll ask and if they have a seal kit you should be able to order it from the UK.

 

3s-ge is the performance engine
3s-fe is the fuel economy engine

For your roof cylinders you should be able to disassemble them and are probably going to find that you
need to replace 1 or 2 rubber "O" rings for each cylinder. Is the cylinder physically leaking fluid ? There are
probably going to be 2 "O" rings either 1 can fail, 1 will produce no external leak (yellow arrow) the other will
cause fluid to leak where the shaft exits the hydraulic cylinder (blue arrow)

If you don't want to do it yourself you may consider any place that does hydraulic repairs, ie places that work on farm equipement, backhoes....



but it's so easy to do yourself
- open the end of the cylinder
- remove the rod that extends from the cylinder
- inspect the inside of the cylinder for scratches / defects
- the rod you remove should have at least 1 "O" ring
- replace the "O" ring(s) (yellow arrow if its an internal leak)
- replace the "O" ring(s) (blue arrow if its an external leak)
- you might want to put a bit of hydrualic fluid on the rings before you insert them
into the cylinders
- inspect the shaft that extends from the cylinder as this will interact with the blue "O" ring and
try to remove any defects
- you may also need to replace the seal on the cylinder that was compromised when you opened the cylinder
depends what it is, some may use a rubber O ring which you may be able to reuse, some may use a gasket
which you may have to replace

Heres an idea of how your cylinder works
-fluid goes in the green hole and the shaft retracts into the cylinder
-fluid goes in the red hole and the shaft extends from the cylinder
-the yellow arrow points to the area where your going to find the "O" ring you need to replace if there is no external fluid leakage
-if you have fluid leaking from where the rod exits the cylinder then you need to look for a smaller
gasket in the area of the blue arrow

If it is an external leak how bad is the leak ?

 

In another thread relating to this same problem you mentioned that your not entirely confident with trying to fix this yourself so let the mechanic have a look at them for you, it will still be way cheaper than sourcing other rams.

Take carefull note of what ST165-2765 has written for you here and if need be, print out his instructions and give it to your mechanic.

'O' rings can be sourced from many different places, not just toyota, I will still wander down the road to have a chat to toyota to see what information they can provide with 'O' ring sizes and how many etc.....

There is a link here somewhere to a parts catalogue but I'm not sure if there is an 'exploded' view of the rams, either way, you'll soon see what's going on when you pull them apart.

 

:lachtot ......... at least they put in a decent exhaust gasket :lachtot

It's not 'pimp my ride', it's GHETTO my ride :facepalm


Seriously tho, isn't that just bullshit, thank goodness it an easy fix so ask your mechanic if he has the gear to put in a new piece of pipe.


Good quality pics BTW.