[Chrysler300] How I Got 62 H Top Cylinders Working

[Kenneth Wilson <jblken@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Rolland;   My 62 300 convert - setting for some 25+ years- the pump and 
motor were full of dried up break fluid.  The lift cylinders were frozen 
- could not get them to move when I had them out and clamped in a large 
vise. I ended up adapting my 5 ton  porta power hose end with fittings 
that I could tread into the cylinder ends where the hoses connect.   
Pumping the porta power broke the pistons free.  I then alternately 
filled the cylinders inlet and outlet with alcohol and worked the  
pistons in and out  many times - thus flushing out the old dried up 
crud.   I had purchased new hoses and got a pump out of a wrecked 89 
Chrysler K car convert.  The pump's rubber  foot print perfectly matched 
the original mounting holes and hoses connected.  My top works up/down 
beautiful, fast  and is immediately responsive.  I had the cylinders, 
hoses  and pump (with the filler hole up) connected  and, using 
battery/jumper cables ran the pump fwd and reverse, adding trans fluid 
as I  bleed the air out of the cylinders and hose.   I then reinstalled 
the the whole works (still hooked together) into the 62.

Ken, San Jose Calif


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