Forklift Lift Cylinders

There are 326 listings on this page for the forklift lift cylinder, and about 300 of them are seal kits, not whole cylinders. If you're rebuilding a leaking cylinder, that's the right place to look. If you need the cylinder itself, check each listing's wording before you order.

The kits are named for the cylinder they rebuild. A typical listing reads "FOR HYSTER SEAL KIT - LIFT CYLINDER 1355276" or "FOR YALE SEAL KIT - LIFT CYLINDER 505136013". Some say "main lift cylinder", such as the Yale kit 505136039, and some name the side, like the Toyota "Lift Cylinder Seal Kit LH" 04653-30221-71. Whole cylinders are rare here. One example is "FOR CROWN 370203, FORKLIFT CYLINDER - MASTER".

Forklift Lift Cylinder Listings by Make

Genie has the most with 45 listings, followed by Hyster with 44 and Yale with 39. Caterpillar has 28, Toyota 26, Clark 21 and Nissan 19. Komatsu, JLG, Mitsubishi, TCM and Bobcat each have between 8 and 17. If you only run Toyota trucks, the Toyota lift cylinder page holds those 26 on their own.

Not every listing is for a forklift. Almost all the Genie and JLG kits are for aerial lifts: you'll see "Upper Boom Lift Cylinder" on a JLG kit and scissor lift models on others, though one JLG kit names a telehandler. Seven listings name more than one make, such as "93051-10078 Lift Cylinder Seal Kit for Caterpillar for Mitsubishi Forklift", so a number can turn up under either brand.

Finding the Right Kit Number

Start with the number on your old kit, the cylinder's tag or your parts manual. Toyota numbers carry a dash group and often end in -71, and some listings write the number both ways, as in "04654-U3020 04654-U3020-71". Search with and without the ending if the first try comes up empty.

When you don't have a number, the make and truck model get you close. Several kits name the model they belong to, including the Mitsubishi FBC25K, the Clark C500 and the Komatsu FG18ST-16. Read that part of the listing and compare it with your data plate.

Other Parts Listed with Lift Cylinders

A handful of listings are not seal kits: 6 pins, 5 bushings, 5 overhaul kits and 2 packing kits. The same cylinder may also need new fittings or lines, which live on the forklift hose page and in the wider pin and bushing sections. Lift cylinders are one corner of a catalog of more than 45,000 parts that spans pallet jacks, personnel carriers, floor scrubbers, aerial lifts and forklifts, so the surrounding parts are close by.

For the other two hydraulic cylinders on a truck, see the tilt cylinder and steering cylinder pages. The full range, including pumps and valves, starts at the forklift cylinder parent page, and all seal kits are gathered under forklift seal kits.

Lift Cylinder Questions

Is a seal kit enough to repair my cylinder?

The kit replaces the seals, which is what most of these listings sell. Nothing in a seal kit listing says the cylinder body or rod is included, so look for words like "assembly" or "master" in the listing if you need the whole unit.

Why does one listing show two part numbers?

Some listings write a number with and without its suffix, and some name two makes. Search each number you find on the old kit.