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    Yanmar VIO2-2 Excavator Blade Slowly Dropping/Drifting - Help Required Please

    Thankyou Patrick M and Nige. There are no signs of track performance degradation and tracks do not "interact" with blade. I understand there can still be internal leaks which would lead to the drooping blade - it would be much more convenient to do piston seals! Will be attending to shortly...
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    Yanmar VIO2-2 Excavator Blade Slowly Dropping/Drifting - Help Required Please

    Make that the entire circuit....! ;)
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    Yanmar VIO2-2 Excavator Blade Slowly Dropping/Drifting - Help Required Please

    Thanks Nige. This is no problem to do. I've read various posts which tend to talk about the valve leaking as the likely culprit of cylinder drift - I was hoping the delay in cylinder response after drift would indicate presence of a vacuum in the system on the non-spear side of the circuit - so...
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    Yanmar VIO2-2 Excavator Blade Slowly Dropping/Drifting - Help Required Please

    I also note that this has got worse over a time period of months - and speed of deterioration has increased as time has gone on.
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    Yanmar VIO2-2 Excavator Blade Slowly Dropping/Drifting - Help Required Please

    Hello knowledgeable Heavy Equipment forum members. I have a Yanmar VIO2-2 excavator. All rams are operating fine with a solid hold apart from the blade. The blade is only drifting down, which expands the cylinder (spear exits cylinder). It does not drift in the opposite direction (spear...
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