Abstract: A lift cylinder including a tubular outer cylinder having an inner cylindrical surface cooperable with an extendible piston and piston rod assembly to define an annular space therebetween, and an annular guide bushing supported within the annular space in a manner to eliminate eccentricity stack-up. "Tolerance stack-up" is defined as the compounding of eccentricity by mounting one eccentric part upon another.

Abstract: A two-stage regulator valve, particularly for regulating the operation of single acting hydraulic lift motors in lift trucks, which embodies a spool valve controlling first and second ports in the valve body and responsive at one end to lift motor fluid pressure. At the opposite end the valve is responsive first to the force of a first spring which closes the spool on one port when lift motor fluid is below a predetermined pressure, and secondly, following predetermined compression of the first spring during which both ports are opened to exhaust pressure fluid from the lift motor, to the added combined force of a lift motor pressure responsive piston and a second spring. The piston forms with the spool valve a differential area response to said fluid pressure and together with the second spring regulates the position of the spool valve so as to variably restrict the other port to control the exhaust from the lift motor inversely as a function of the fluid pressure therein.