L4310 only steers one way?

[Hprb]

Hello,

I have a L4310 and I took off the steering ram as it was leaking. Took it to the shop to get it repaired, reinstalled and tested. Now if I jack up the front and turn the wheel it can go way way too far to the right and barely anything to the left. Any thoughts? The ram shaft end is fixed on front of frame and the ram body is fixed in the horizontal part of pitman arm so I’m at a loss. Additionally ram body seems to “lift up” even though I reinstalled everything.

thanks!
Holokai

 

[North Idaho Wolfman]

Pull the lines off of the cylinder, put them in a bucket, slowly turn the steering each direction.
Do you get the same flow out of each line?
Does the steering feel the same each direction?
If you do you have a fitting issue or a rebuild cylinder issue.

If you don't get flow or the same feel then you have a controller issue.

Was the initial issue only a leak as to why you pulled the cylinder?

If it was only due to a leak, then it's most likely they messed up the cylinder rebuild!
But the cylinder should not move up and down when it works, so that doesn't sound right either.

 

[Hprb]

thanks for replying!

I’ll do those tests, the issue is then the steering wheel is all the way left the wheels are lightly left and the cylinder is maxed out. When I turn it right it goes way too far until the cylinder is maxed out. Sorry not sure if that clarify?

Pull the lines off of the cylinder, put them in a bucket, slowly turn the steering each direction.
Do you get the same flow out of each line?
Does the steering feel the same each direction?
If you do you have a fitting issue or a rebuild cylinder issue.

If you don't get flow or the same feel then you have a controller issue.

Was the initial issue only a leak as to why you pulled the cylinder?

If it was only due to a leak, then it's most likely they messed up the cylinder rebuild!
But the cylinder should not move up and down when it works, so that doesn't sound right either.

 

[North Idaho Wolfman]

With the lines off the cylinder and the front tires lifted off the ground.
See if you can manually turn the tires side to side.

 

[Hprb]

Ok,
Front jacked up and lines off it still has the same range of motion. Barely to the left and waaay too far to the right