How many of you guys have welded on a threaded bung to the end of the rod on a hydraulic ram, so that you can have a heim on the end? Has anyone had any failures with this setup? I think I am gonna have to do this because I don't have enough room for the stock thingy majig that came with the ram.

I'm in the process of modifying a rebuildable 8" stroke ram right now....cut down the tube for 6.5" stroke and will be cutting the shaft as needed to weld on a heim eye on the end. IMO no big deal. Gonna be a few weeks til I get time to work on it again tho....

http://www.ih8mud.com/2002-05-01_hydroassist/ are some initial pics of the project....hope to have a writeup done in a month or so....

hey Woody, I hope* you're planning on having that cylinder tube
faced in a lathe before reassembling.......... notice the chamfer on
the end of the tube, and the fact that you'll never be able to get it
as true square without facing the ends..........

--sherpa

I'll gladly face it for you, but you'll have to send it to me to do it.

I'm in San Jose BTW if you're interested. I could also thread the
rod-end as well... either female or male threads.


--Sherpa

I just chunked mine in a lathe and turned down the threaded portion on the piston down to the required diameter. Then just threw a die on it and cut the threads in. Than ran a short piece of DOM as a sleeve and then a heim on the other end of the sleeve. Worked out slick and allows it to be adjusted for length if need be.