The new valve's spool looked undamaged, bore looked nice and clean, the seal at the back end was good. Detent on the return clicks, and there's full range of motion.
Hadn't thought of the rod coming off the piston... it'd be internally bypassing hence the lack of pressure to split. On return the piston would go back but the rod would stay in place.
4 yrs ago when I rebuilt it, I couldn't stomach the $87 for new seals on the hokey multi-ring steel piston so I turned a new one out of aluminum, $4 double lip seal and I was good to go.
I don't recall locking the nut down with a cotter or even loctite.
I dug some gauges out, one goes to 3000psi, I should be able to put it on the T at the inlet to the valve to see if I'm getting pressure.
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