Hydraulic Repair
Cylinders, pumps, valves and hose failures diagnosed and repaired on site.
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Service
Industrial and mobile hydraulics
Hydraulics fail at the worst possible moment and usually in the least accessible place on the machine. We do this work in the field, on production equipment and on heavy machinery.
Overview
Hydraulics
We repair and maintain hydraulic systems on plant equipment (presses, balers, compactors, lifts, conveyors and machine tools) as well as mobile equipment including excavators, loaders, forklifts and haulers.
Most hydraulic failures are contamination failures wearing a different mask. When we repair a component we look at what killed it, because a new pump fed by dirty oil is a new pump with a short life.
What we handle
- Cylinders. Reseal, rod and gland service, barrel honing, rod replacement, pin and bushing repair.
- Pumps and motors. Diagnosis, replacement and setup on gear, vane and piston units.
- Hose and tube assemblies. Built and replaced on site, JIC, ORFS, NPT and metric fittings.
- Valves and manifolds. Directional, relief and proportional valve troubleshooting and replacement.
- Reservoirs and filtration. Cleaning, filter service, breathers, cooling and contamination control.
- Diagnosis. Pressure and flow testing to locate the fault before anything comes apart.
Field service
We come to the machine
Heavy equipment does not travel well when the hydraulics are the reason it stopped.
We work on site, in your plant, on the yard or at the job, with the tooling to build hose assemblies, pull and reseal cylinders and test pressures where the machine sits.
Contamination control
Clean oil is the whole game
Particle contamination is behind the majority of hydraulic component failures. It wears pump and motor clearances, erodes valve spools, scores cylinder bores and cuts seals.
- Filters and breathers serviced on a set interval.
- Reservoirs cleaned when a major component is replaced.
- New assemblies flushed before they go into service.
Recent work
From the field
A sample of installations and service work across South Carolina, Georgia and North Carolina.
24/7 emergency service
When it fails at 2am, you still get a technician
Breakdowns do not respect business hours. Our emergency line runs 24 hours a day, seven days a week. You reach someone who can diagnose the problem and dispatch a technician.
Questions
About hydraulics
Do you work on mobile equipment as well as plant equipment?
Both. Production hydraulics inside a plant and mobile hydraulics on excavators, loaders, forklifts and haulers are the same fundamentals, and we service both in the field.
Can you make hose assemblies on site?
Yes. We build hose assemblies in the field with the common fitting types, so a blown hose does not mean waiting on a supplier the next morning.
Can a cylinder be repaired or does it need replacing?
Most cylinders are repairable. Seals, glands, rods and bushings are all serviceable, and a rod can often be replaced far more cheaply than the whole assembly. If the barrel is badly scored or the mounting is damaged, we will tell you when replacement is the better spend.
Our system keeps failing in the same place. Why?
Repeat failures in the same component almost always point to something upstream: contamination, a relief valve set wrong, heat, aeration or a mechanical alignment problem loading the cylinder sideways. We chase down the cause so the repair holds.
One vendor
Other services
Most of our customers started with one of these and consolidated the rest. Fewer vendors, fewer handoffs, one number when something breaks.
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Process Piping
Compressed air, water and industrial process lines, fabricated and installed so pressure gets where it is needed.
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Get a quote for hydraulics
Tell us the equipment, the symptom and how urgent it is. We will come back with a straight answer. If it is down right now, call instead.