REFLECTOR: Hydraulic Pump Leak

[Scott Derrick]

I've gotten two private replies from people that experienced the same
problem.  They too had to resort to a kludge fix of sillycone.

If you've actually seen one of these units, it is obviously made to hang
off something that doesn't move around a lot. Or where a little bit of
spilt fluid is no biggie.

Parker makes a lot of 108 series pumps. There is a similar model that has
a well built resevoir that would seal well.   Its probably twice as much.

I think the pump itself is well made and seems to perfrom up to snuff. 
But the resevoir attachment is really not made to flight standards.

Using sillycone to try to fix the poor resevoir design is a band aid at
best and will probably have to be done periodicy .

Scott

> Scott, before you go pounding on the factory for yet another "poor" design
> in using this hydraulic pump, you need to know that this pump is widely
> used
> on marine outboard and in/out engines.  snip <This pumps not made for
> vehicular use..  At least the reservoir sealing  mechanism isn't..>  Hint,
> do a Google on Oildyne.
>
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