Hello everyone! New to the forum.

I have an issue that has me kind of confused. Hoping someone can help me out. We have a TH514 that broke one of the pins holding the left cylinder on the rear of the machine that I thought was a lift cylinder...apparently CAT calls them tilt compensation cylinders.

At first we thought that someone had hit the machine and broke the cylinder off but after a closer look, it seems like the cylinder was not working properly and broke itself off. When we pull the joystick back to lift the boom, the cylinder does not move together with its partner on the other side of the boom. It only moves when we hit the button to tilt the forks. Doesn't seem right to me!

So I thought maybe a bad solenoid. Looked in the back at the control valves and realized that the fork tilt cylinder and two back "compensation" cylinders are all plumbed together. Now I'm stumped! What the **** do those "compensation" cylinders do, and why would it function that way???

I don't want to reconnect the cylinder and have it break again. Any help is greatly appreciated!